Amen! I thought I was nearly alone in this view, but I am so saddened so often to see written art and other forms of human expression reduced to mere "content," as though they were afterthoughts to the main purpose of building online platforms and making money.

I also rue the term "creator," though I do certainly create. I write novels and short stories, and I write newspaper columns and editorials designed to elicit human feelings and move hearts.

You can't reduce my writing to "creating" and say very much meaningful about it, and I stick to saying "writing" despite the fact that many other genres of art and expression exist that all get lumped together as "content" produced by "creators."

I'm a writer, not a creator, and even my writing is diverse.

We lose some of the ability to talk about things when we don't have the right words for them. That's why I have long refused to call my writing content or to call myself a creator.

I'm a writer, thank you.