Bee (alt edition) on Nostr: This is hardly an original take but I absolutely hate the way the word "content" has ...

This is hardly an original take but I absolutely hate the way the word "content" has become the main way people refer to any creative work, that would previously have been referred to by more meaningful words, like "writing" or, y'know, *fucking "art",* that people put on the internet. And I hate the way the phrase "content creator" (or its short form, "creator") has come to replace words like *"artist"* or *"writer".*

Like how did the MBAs manage to convince everyone else to see works of human creativity as consisting of generic *stuff* that (interchangeable and insignificant) people produce that they can shove into interchangeable containers (the word "content" literally just means "the stuff inside a container") for economic consumption as an unremarkable by-product of *their* moneymaking activities, instead of the reverse, that artists produce art in some particular medium and then the (interchangeable and insignificant) businesspeople scrape money off the top of the process of distributing that media, like we'd been doing until like barely ten years ago.

I don't know about you, but you won't hear me use the term "content creator", at any rate because I find that to be an insult to the people who actually deserve recognition.