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Influencers are a degraded form of celebrity, which itself is a degraded form of hero. A true artist is a type of hero, a pseudo-artist is a celebrity or influencer disguised as a hero. True artists create works, while pseudo-artists create content disguised as works
The line between content and works is increasingly blurred. Television used to be more content than work...lots of seasons, lots of episodes per season, lots of filler eps and clip shows. Film was more work than content...finite, made to stand test of time.
Post-prestige TV, television is treated more like works than just content, and post-franchise blockbuster era of modern film, movies are treated more like content. Marvel, Star Wars, YA, Fast and Furious franchises more open-ended tv series than prestige TV series are...
...Breaking Bad feels more like a work or novel than Marvel movies, which feel like content along the lines of a comic book universe made to run forever and churn out as much content as is profitable
anyway the point of this thread, i want help brainstorming something...what are some of the elements that differentiate a work from content? i'm trying to make firm definitions for both. made to stand test of time i would say is one. another is amount of+revolving door of chefs
i would add that with content, even if disguised as a work like Sl*ve Pl*y, it serves more to elevate the standing of the personality creating it than to be memorable for itself. the personality of the creator/s outshines + outlives anything people remember of the actual product
I'm looking at all these memoirs created by these social justice influencers, who are celebrities/influencers more than they're actual heroes/artists and they are content disguised as works (Deray, Saeed Jones, the BLM women's books, Amanda Seales) more than actual works...
...actual works being things like Autobiography of Malcolm X, Revolutionary Suicide, Kwame Ture's Black Power, or MLK or H. Rap Brown's books, things that stand the test of time and are iconic and people still read today. These SJI's books are forgotten months after they drop
another aspect of content vs. a work, a work is meant to standalone, whereas content is just part of a stream of product and tends to tie into other product, like requires you to read thinkpieces or creator tweets or associated official podcasts and tie-in merchandise to get it
this is good one https://twitter.com/mrgartrelle/status/1326940013817368584?s=20
this is good too https://twitter.com/TeaKaGee/status/1326941957227229187?s=20
yes this explained why Alan Moore's Watchmen is a work while Damon Lindelof's HBOmen is content https://twitter.com/librarygary/status/1326938913273995277?s=20
One more thing, I don't think content is inherently bad or shouldn't exist. There is a lot of content out there I love. I think the problem is when content is treated as and eventually starts crowding out and replacing works. Content that's honest about what it is is fine
