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Real questions because I am dumb.

- What is a "creator"?

- Who are considered "creators"?

Most "creators" I see on insta/tiktok are just people with pretty faces or some random people trying to sell cheap stuff at a slightly higher price and constantly pushing videos(or reels for the cultural folks) promoting products, and of course the reel after their's is also an sponsored advert, so everything is now advert.

Only useful creators I see are some talented artists in Instagram, but sadly they are now flooded out by all new-age AI art generator /creators/ producing anime/manga/van-gogh arts of the same thing in slightly different context.

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Creator is anyone who makes money by producing content. It's irrelevant whether you consider that content "worthy".

> Creator is anyone who makes money by producing content. It's irrelevant whether you consider that content "worthy".

Thanks for clarifying, this makes sense to me. Previously, I considered creators as someone making original content(could be informative, documentary, educational, news, art, music etc.), but I see that the term is now considered a much broader scope. May be am just stuck in stone-age.

The proliferation of corporate/business language is a hint - no one actually wants to "create content". They want to create art, music, writing etc. Advertising however usually needs something to ship it with, to draw attention, and so we have broad, hollow terms like "content" and "creator".

>no one actually wants to "create content"

Plenty of entertainers want to create "content" instead of what you label "art".

I think you'll find they want to entertain. "Content" is just the catch-all detached term for anything that can be consumed.

So what though?

To me, a creator is someone who creates something. Anything. Everybody who is not merely consuming is a creator.

AI art and social media appear to me to be the same thing. Automated propagation of styles or interests or products that lead to a homogenous landscape of essentially nothing.

They want to move Twitter from 4chan/LiveLeak/9gag style culture to TikTok/Insta like environment because pretty faces selling cheap stuff is more preferable(?), and doing so without a shutdown/relaunch. That was the direction even before the acquisition that never worked.

Last month they were trying to move it few inches towards direction of Reddit, but the culture didn't budge so they're recalculating plans. I bet it's going to help Bluesky a bit and that will be it.

Creators are people paid to shit in your head and maintain your attention that are acceptable because the platform considers their attention to be profitable.

The contract breaks if any conditions are not fulfilled or stop growing.

Mindhackers..

Mindshitters. Attention dynamics is about creating addiction.

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People who create content that causes thumbs to swipe towards them and eyeballs to swivel in their direction.

If I can serve ads on your stuff, you are a content creator.

The only Tiktok I see is what gets shared elsewhere, and that seems to be mostly people expanding on other people's music, which is pretty awesome.

Why did you ask the question and then go on to answer it using a sarcastic and borderline insulting description?

A creator is anyone who creates content. Differentiated from a consumer, who is someone who (mostly) consumes content.

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