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FYI: Us humans call it "watch videos", not "consume content".

• dudefeliciano 1y ago
  you made an account 1 hour ago to post 2 snarky comments? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • bruffen 1y ago
    I make a new account every few days or so, however long it takes for the previous one to be shadow banned. It's not a big deal.
  • trinsic2 1y ago
    I agree with him. The whole, "consume content" phrase has a subtle effect of making us int mindless consumers rather than freedom choice thinkers. People need to stop drinking the consumer market koolaid.
    • dudefeliciano 1y ago
      i dislike the phrase too but the tone of the comment was pretty shitty, apart from being off topic. Also to think that it's the phrase "consume content" making us mindless consumer seems way off to me. What would you call most of the videos on youtube/tiktok/instagram? Art, Documentaries, Didactic aid? Perhaps "content" is the best way to refer to them.
      • bediger4000 1y ago
        "Videos" seems appropriate.
    • bediger4000 1y ago
      That's another good objection, next to lumping all stuff into one category: some creative output is "content", not writing, or video, or spoken word, or painting, or acting or even "merch", it's all "content". Calling every item sold, from toothpaste to iron pipe to dump trucks "product" is the same: disrespectful of the thought and effort and craft that go in to making ping pong balls or airplanes. It's an MBA's way of denigrating everything not presentable in a PowerPoint.