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Content is not meant to imply fungibility by being nonspecific. It is supposed to represent an acknowledgement of diversity across a wide range of activities.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Content is not meant to imply fungibility by being nonspecific. It is supposed to represent an acknowledgement of diversity across a wide range of activities.
The term content creator represents inclusivity, not genericity.
You have used the term information as a candidate for an alternative. What if someone is sharing an experience, an artwork, or simply something they found to be beautiful? There may be an information component to some of those things but the primary reason that they were offered isn't to be informative.
You don't seek content any more than you seek words. You may read books made of words but it is what the book is about that you look for. The same goes for content, only with a broader spectrum. You seek things that you like, things that you value. Content, being nonspecific, means your horizons can be broad.
- nottorp 9mo agoYour experience sharing is also information, not content. It doesn't have to be a technical manual or a self improvement text. What I call content is ... well, content ... produced not because you have something to say but because you're aiming for quantity.
- Lerc 9mo agoExperience sharing has an information component, the thing that distinguishes it from a written report containing the same facts is not. What you call content is just low effort content. Slop is a more evocative term that probably captures the concept of low effort, unfortunately it has already been poisoned by people declaring anything AI assisted to be slop regardless of how much effort went into the work. There are a lot of people who work tirelessly on things that have a massive time and effort commitment for each thing they produce. Yet they identify as content creators. Dismissing their work seems disrespectful to me. Sturgeon's Law is a warning to not overlook the good because of the preponderance of the bad.
- nottorp 9mo ago> Sturgeon's Law is a warning to not overlook the good because of the preponderance of the bad. Right, why don't you quote it in full though? "90% of everything is crap"
- direwolf20 9mo agoContent is used to imply that. I have a website, here are the ads, now I just need some content and I'm all done! I like your words analogy. A "content creator" is a "words writer". We need some words on this page or it looks weird. Go and get me some words. Users don't seek words, but operators seek to entice users with words so they'll view the advertisements. "Content" is the same thing without reference to a specific medium. Content can be video, audio, words, or even interactive gameplay.