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I don’t know about that. The way I hear it used, every YouTube video is content, even the very good stuff. HBO and Netflix are content. NBA Games are “live cont

• JohnFen 4y ago
  People do use it that way, which is a real shame because -- like the commenter you're replying to -- "content" to me implies something inferior.
• rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
  Well to the suits at ESPN, HBO, Netflix, and YouTube, those video files are indeed content. They are the contents of their platform. But if you're in a conversation with an a filmmaker, a musician, a novelist, or a painter, and you try to call their artistic output "content," they might take some offense, because you're kind of reducing their work to a mere consumable product. Yes, art can be packaged up and put on a platform and distributed and profited off of, or bought and sold on an online store like toasters and dish soap, but that's not the reason it exists - it's form of human expression. Just as not all digital content is art (e.g. NBA games), and not all digital art is content.
  • JohnFen 4y ago
    > if you're in a conversation with an a filmmaker, a musician, a novelist, or a painter, and you try to call their artistic output "content," they might take some offense This. And when I hear creative types use the word "content" to refer to their own work, I feel pity for them. And am much less inclined to check their work out, because it it seems that their mindset is to produce a product rather than art. Especially if they refer to their audience as "consuming" their "content".