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"Content" always felt like the author saying "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later".

As opposed to "art" being the end result of someone's personal expression manifesting into an artifact that can be experienced by others.

I realize it's all semantics, but there is a hint of intent somewhere in there.

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It is a painful memory but I've had to suffer the "content" of a "creator" telling his "community" for 7 infinitely long minutes his "secret" to better/faster reading.

The secret? A f**ing bookmark with a mark on it so that the reader can remember what line he left the book at.

Unbearable.

It was 100% "I will crank out whatever it takes to grab and retain your attention for the sake of monetizing it sooner or later"

Hahaha, like every recipe site out there... "I wonder what to buy" one thinks as one scrolls past lines and paragraphs of life history of family members of the author....

Intent is not obvious. My wife is a passionate painter, and so she paints every day. Not to get attention, but because „she has to“. But her Insta-Feed looks exactly like someone cranking out as much as possible. Because that‘s what she does.

Content is market-driven to a much stronger degree. It's hypothetical, but I'd wager your wife would make much the same art for an audience of 10 as for an audience of 10k or 10M.

Intent is nearly impossible to prove, in any context, so it feels not worth worrying worrying about.

Why does she have to?

Every night the canvas bleeds and every day she must paint a new image lest she release the dire, secret horror held within.

Read „she has to“ as: she is innately driven to

Ah, I pictured a "Misery" type situation, thanx for the clarification.

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