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Clive Thompson | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @50b353e9 

Yep — with my band, I write songs and perform songs. I don’t write content and perform content 

I mean one can *call* it content but that is to take a database’s view of what I’m doing
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Jake in the desert | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @59034767 right. And I find it ironic that so many of the young "influencers" (another term I dislike) have gotten used to calling it content, when we find it so "cringe" and that's *their* recent term 🤣  - it's just such a shame the capitalists want to cheapen art like that. I get WHY they do, but it's always a slippery slope to something even DUMBER and cheaper although I can't imagine what that would be. I suppose we're all going to find out 😕
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Clive Thompson | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @50b353e9 

Yeah, this is what is the most depressing part of it all -- when people doing very cool and specific forms of cultural expression just call it "content"