Derek Powazek 🐐Aug 24, 2018

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.

Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Aug 26, 2018
@fraying https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=editorial+content&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ceditorial%20content%3B%2Cc0
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Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐
@dredmorbius https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=content+creator&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccontent%20creator%3B%2Cc0
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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Aug 26, 2018
@fraying Touche!
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Aug 26, 2018

@fraying That probably traces to Sumner Redstone's "content is king". Often misattributed to Bill Gates.

That is also wrong, and I suspect deliberately misleading: *channel* and *channel control* is king. #monopoly IOW.