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Any time I have to fall back to the word "content" because I couldn't think of a better descriptor to thoughtfully describe someone's passion in a meaningful way I feel like I've failed. I have a similar problem with calling people "makers" but that one is less commonly discussed so I'm more likely not to have a better word for "modern Renaissance Wo-/Man/Creature that can program and 3D Print"

the only content I make is my mood whenever I see other ppl's art

Taken up the habit of using the term "content" in a derogatory sense.

A bonus quest to collect the 800+ tokens to get a sticker next to your name? Think of all the hours of content
Gotta do my daily log in bonus so I can unlock the content faster

In Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, he says that his definition of "art" is something done not purely for survival or reproduction. Singing a little song in the shower? Art. Drawing a smiley face in the fresh snow on a car? Art. Folding up a piece of paper in a satisfying way before you recycle it? That's art baybeeee!
The word "content" feels so antithetical to that concept. Art exists for its own sake, but "content" exists to be filler to be consumed. It feels like, you're a factory worker, churning out disposable plastic shit to put between ads. It doesn't feel human to call anything "content".

THATS WHAT IM SAYIN!!!
any time people say content it makes me age another year and i dont have many left in me. i hate the word for describing human made media so much

Yeah the verbage being used in common language for this is just sad. I feel like somewhere along the way people forgot what it meant to just enjoy a thing and not to like be productive and only productive with anything you were supposed to enjoy

I get the same ick feeling when people say "media consumption" and shit too...please just say you're experiencing art this language sounds so soulless

Fuck

...Damn that hits

Heck yeah