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"Content" always felt like the author saying "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later

"Content" always felt like the author saying "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later". As opposed to "art" being the end result of someone's personal expression manifesting into an artifact that can be experienced by others. I realize it's all semantics, but there is a hint of intent somewhere in there.

st-keller 4y ago
Intent is not obvious. My wife is a passionate painter, and so she paints every day. Not to get attention, but because „she has to“. But her Insta-Feed looks exactly like someone cranking out as much as possible. Because that‘s what she does.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  Why does she have to?
  - doublerebel 4y ago
    Read „she has to“ as: she is innately driven to
    - teekert 4y ago
      Ah, I pictured a "Misery" type situation, thanx for the clarification.
  - projektfu 4y ago
    Every night the canvas bleeds and every day she must paint a new image lest she release the dire, secret horror held within.
- zyx321 4y ago
  Content is market-driven to a much stronger degree. It's hypothetical, but I'd wager your wife would make much the same art for an audience of 10 as for an audience of 10k or 10M. Intent is nearly impossible to prove, in any context, so it feels not worth worrying worrying about.
xcambar 4y ago
It is a painful memory but I've had to suffer the "content" of a "creator" telling his "community" for 7 infinitely long minutes his "secret" to better/faster reading. The secret? A f**ing bookmark with a mark on it so that the reader can remember what line he left the book at. Unbearable. It was 100% "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later"
- teekert 4y ago
  Hahaha, like every recipe site out there... "I wonder what to buy" one thinks as one scrolls past lines and paragraphs of life history of family members of the author....

st-keller 4y ago

Intent is not obvious. My wife is a passionate painter, and so she paints every day. Not to get attention, but because „she has to“. But her Insta-Feed looks exactly like someone cranking out as much as possible. Because that‘s what she does.

hackernewds 4y ago
Why does she have to?
- doublerebel 4y ago
  Read „she has to“ as: she is innately driven to
  - teekert 4y ago
    Ah, I pictured a "Misery" type situation, thanx for the clarification.
- projektfu 4y ago
  Every night the canvas bleeds and every day she must paint a new image lest she release the dire, secret horror held within.
zyx321 4y ago
Content is market-driven to a much stronger degree. It's hypothetical, but I'd wager your wife would make much the same art for an audience of 10 as for an audience of 10k or 10M. Intent is nearly impossible to prove, in any context, so it feels not worth worrying worrying about.

xcambar 4y ago

It is a painful memory but I've had to suffer the "content" of a "creator" telling his "community" for 7 infinitely long minutes his "secret" to better/faster reading. The secret? A f**ing bookmark with a mark on it so that the reader can remember what line he left the book at. Unbearable. It was 100% "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later"

teekert 4y ago
Hahaha, like every recipe site out there... "I wonder what to buy" one thinks as one scrolls past lines and paragraphs of life history of family members of the author....