In general I think it's quite dangerous how much influence a few entities have over language and symbolism...words like "friend" and "like" being hijacked to represent concepts of surveillance capitalism.
One of my pet peeves is with how people in the last few years have been conditioned to refer to any creative works as "content" in the abstract, totally removed from the case-by-case specifics of what exactly it is and what exactly contains it, even when you know the specifics and can describe it more exactly using just as many words.
It's sort of like the euphemistic language use by military or paramilitary organizations (e.g. "neutralizing" instead of killing or maiming or "conflict" instead of war) in that it's clearly meant to take our minds off something, except it's unclear to me yet what exactly "content" is meant to take our minds off and why.
Like yeah, you make video clips and I work in a breakfast cereal factory. We're both content creators! You figure out what defines the difference and I'll go create some content for the toilet bowl in the mean time.
One of my pet peeves is with how people in the last few years have been conditioned to refer to any creative works as "content" in the abstract, totally removed from the case-by-case specifics of what exactly it is and what exactly contains it, even when you know the specifics and can describe it more exactly using just as many words.
It's sort of like the euphemistic language use by military or paramilitary organizations (e.g. "neutralizing" instead of killing or maiming or "conflict" instead of war) in that it's clearly meant to take our minds off something, except it's unclear to me yet what exactly "content" is meant to take our minds off and why.
Like yeah, you make video clips and I work in a breakfast cereal factory. We're both content creators! You figure out what defines the difference and I'll go create some content for the toilet bowl in the mean time.