pom-seedss:

renthony:

renthony:

I’ve been pointedly refusing to use the term “content creators” to refer to artists anymore, because I want to make art for me and the people I care about, not the endless demands of the algorithm. I’m not trying to Produce Content, I want to make art.

So it is deeply, deeply irritating when I use the word “artist” in a post and it gets endlessly reblogged with people asking “but what about writers? but what about actors? but what about musicians? but what about [x]?”

All types of art are included in the term “artist,” god damn it. “Artist” does not just mean “someone who draws pictures.”

I don’t know why so many people keep taking this post as “yeah, we should come up with a better word for content creators!”

THAT WORD ALREADY EXISTS.

THE WORD IS “ARTIST,” Y’ALL.

THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS DAMN POST.

The word “artist” is all-encompassing! By! Definition! We don’t need to keep reinventing the fucking wheel!

Do you make art? Any kind of art? Drawings, paintings, comics, novels, songs, dances, photographs, performances, anything creative?

THAT’S ART, BABE. YOU ARE AN ARTIST.

RESIST CAPITALIST COMMODIFICATION OF ART AND CLAIM THE DAMN TITLE.

I remember when we used the term “visual artist” to specify folks who draw/paint/etc. The narrowing of the term artist to solely visual artists has been a thorn in my paw for years now.

Then artist got replaced with fucking “content creators”? Not even creators or creatives, but “*content* creators”? We can’t specify what kind of artist we are so we can all take the title of artist but we have to specifically be creators of *content*? Fucking no. 

That doesn’t even tell anyone anything about what you do anyway, so may as well take the general title of artist back!

We don’t create because there is a void in the content schedule, we make art because we are so full it bursts out.

Performance art, linguistic art, musical art, visual art, it’s all ART. Your specific kind of artistic expression doesn’t make it any less or more than another.

You can be specific if you want, but you are an ARTIST!