I'm wondering why you choose to use the term creator. I for one feel totally turned off but. The only people I've ever known who voluntarily describe themselves as "creators" are vapid people on YouTube or TikTok who create vapid entertainment geared for the least common denominator. Ordinarily, when I see articles about "creators," I run FAST in the other direction.

I am not a creator, I am a novelist. I am not a creator, I am a columnist. I am not a creator, I am an essayist.

My filmmaker friends are very fast to say that they are not creators, they are filmmakers.

I realize there's a little picayune language policing going on there, but from what I experience, people who choose the label "creator" for themselves tend not to be serious artists or thinkers, which is why I distance myself, HARD, from that descriptor.

When people who make silly YouTube videos are the ones who mostly call themselves creators, I know I need a different label. Because I am nothing whatsoever like those silly people and their silly entertainment.