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The word “content” is often perceived as devaluing creative work: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/movies/emma-thompson-writ...

Paradoxically, it signals indifference or disregard about the actual contents of a work.



Eevee put it best:

> I absolutely cannot fucking stand creative work being referred to as "content". "Content" is how you refer to the stuff on a website when you're designing the layout and don't know what actually goes on the page yet. "Content" is how you refer to the collection of odds and ends in your car's trunk. "Content" is what marketers call the stuff that goes around the ads.

From https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/




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