William Shakespeare was a playwright who wrote plays. Nellie Bly was an undercover journalist who reported. Elvis Presley was a rockstar/artist/singer who sang. Helen Mirren is an actor who acts. Stephen King is an author who writes. Nigella Lawson is a chef who cooks^behave. And of course, numerous people here are performers who perform or record (or script writers who write).

..and yet, all people talk about these days is "content creators", "creating content". Choosing those words for everything sounds so disrespectful to me, so much like normalizing the creativity and hard work, as if it is a grey mulch, whose only important characteristic is being able to be poured into various forms, filling pages on Facebook or Twitter or whatever else you've got. As if that's the only way it has value. It's a word originally used in abstract terms when you're talking about the design of these containers (ask me, I'm a programmer). I hope we're not really headed to a world where creative people are not afforded real, proper words for what they do, or where William Shakespeare goes down in the books as one of history's most influential "content creators".

I'm not saying everyone has to care about this or agree with me. But it's on my mind a lot, and I thought I'd let it vent for a bit and see what other people think.