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IMO the real problem here is how these words get used. If you look at Netflix, you have documentaries, tv shows, stand up specials, films. When you want to ref
by pdpi 4y ago
IMO the real problem here is how these words get used.
If you look at Netflix, you have documentaries, tv shows, stand up specials, films. When you want to refer to those things in aggregate, “content” is a better term than “stuff to watch”.
Likewise, some of the people on YouTube are artists, documentarians, educators, entertainers… “creators” is a perfectly reasonable umbrella term.
The problem with these two terms is how conversations that involve them have a tendency to treat them as fodder, and are more interested in the numbers than the actual contents of the content.
In a similar vein, community is a perfectly reasonable word for “the people involved in this thing at large”, and culture for “the ways those people interact and their shared references”. You can eg say that the Rust community is much more welcoming than the Scala community (whether you agree or not is a different matter). The problem is when togetherness and belonging don’t exist as grassroots movements, and those words get abused as a way to astroturf.