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art tips
- don’t call what you create “content”. regardless of what it is. that’s the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is
- I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don’t call yourself a “content creator”. you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician
- you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind
Gonna add on to this, if that’s ok, because I think a lot of people don’t know how to categorize their work:
- Shitposting? You’re a comedian, a satirist.
- Long posts about other people’s art? You’re a critic (positive), a scholar.
- Long posts exploring ideas, society, and the world around you? You’re an essayist, a philosopher.
- Can’t get enough of sharing information about X topic? You’re a scholar, an educator, a columnist.
- Just love collecting and sharing other people’s stuff on your blog? Archivist, curator, collector.
- Just not sure where you fit? Babe, you’re a blogger.
You don’t have to be a professional (ie get paid) to be any of these things. You can claim the title without making any claims to the quality of your work. It’s ok.
as a critic myself, i love using the word “art” bc it is technically value neutral, but not everyone knows that, so instead of saying “content” i say “media.” it’s what i studied in school, it’s more precise – you create a form of media, in literally whatever MEDIUM that takes. i’m a critic who talks about both film/tv and also books and video games and comics, so i can encompass all of that by saying i consume MEDIA, not “content.” media has had a specific definition to encompass many formats for a long time – the use of “content” is deliberate, to pretend to reinvent the wheel as tech disruptors love to do, and claim something is “new” and therefore more exploitable.
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