I’ll never forgive the internet for training a generation of artists and writers to call what they make “content.”

Boxes have contents. You’re a fucking ARTIST. You make ART. Own it.

Powazek: Just a Thought: Death to User-Generated Content

Derek M. Powazek: Author, Designer, Troublemaker, Person.

Not consumers or users, but amateurs

Mary takes Intelliseek to task for calling the writers of the web 'consumers', but her suggestion of 'users' is equally infelicitous - even...

@fraying " Can you imagine a writer saying "I am a content provider" when asked what they do?"

a whole generation of youtubers are calling themselves "content creators" the term that youtube and other platforms invented for them.

@meena that phrase predates YouTube by, like, a lot.