Not really. The term “content creator” is corporate speak. Google’s ad-based business model has a binary classification: content and ads. It’s not an inaccurate term, but using it implicitly endorses the corporation’s binary world view.
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 days agoWhat a strange opinion.
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 5 days ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Words is funny sometimes.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 5 days ago
It’s not that strange, I have a friend who literally said the same thing today in reference to one of his favourite channels shutting down. He preferred to call the stuff on this channel art, rather than content. I agree with the person above too, the term has always bugged me. It makes it sound so mass produced, like your job is to just produce meaningless “content” for people to mindlessly consume. And to be honest, that’s exactly what the mainstream YouTube culture is about.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I mean, you don’t call it whatever you like, but content is the technical definition of it.
westyvw@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I agree with this a lot. I really do not like the term “content”. It is like going to a recipe for some “slop”, like using a term that is just a catch all for everything tossed on a plate.
Art is great. Movies, music are also fine terms. And so is simply saying they made a video. Watering it all down to the term “content” is just so boring and mind numbing.