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>two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now Influencers, aka Snake Oil Salesmen. There definitely are worthwhi
by Dalewyn 3y ago
>two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now
Influencers, aka Snake Oil Salesmen.
There definitely are worthwhile content creators out there, to be clear, but the signal-to-noise ratio is so astronomically terrible that it's probably better to throw out the entire bathtub including the stillborn baby.
- ecshafer 3y agoI hate the terms "content creators" and "influencers" both. Scorsese isn't a content creator, he is a film maker. The idea of a content creator is just so... dystopian. What they make doesn't matter, its not art, its just content.
- Dalewyn 3y agoMost movies aren't shot on reels of film ("What's a 'film'?") anymore, nor do most people know what the "tube" in Youtube means. I wager terms like "content creator" came about as an attempt by younger generations to detach concepts they know from concepts they don't or can't understand. Note how a similar thing has happened to Saving something (it's "in the cloud" now, nobody knows what a floppy disk is), Private Messages are now Direct Messages (there is no privacy), and files and folders have straight up ceased to exist because paperless is the modern trend. "Influencer" is probably mostly just snake oil peddlers trying to figure out a more palatable name for themselves, though; not that it's any more palatable.