I can't think of a single time someone has admitted to having been wrong about something and me thinking less of them because it. It's always the opposite yet it's still so painful being in that spot yourself.
100% of the users here are reddit refugees. I don't know why anyone would assume the vibe of the platform to be any different. In many ways this place even manages to out-reddit reddit.
My living room has a 15 year old 48" LED TV and that's the only one I own.
It's not just about the size of the TV but size in relation to viewing distance. Too many people buy way too big TVs thinking bigger is always better and then it feels like sitting in the first row in the movies and you need to turn your head to read the subtitles.
Internet was the "AI" of the dotcom bubble. It didn't go anywhere after the bubble burst and neither will AI. What will go away are the companies with only hype but no product. Amazon and eBay came about during the dotcom bubble and now companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be equivalent ones.
The bubble bursts when investors start losing faith that the company they have invested into will become profitable so they pull out, which makes other investors get scared so they pull out too and then the company goes under.
I started my own handyman business 3 years ago and I don't consider it a scam nor did I need to invest millions up-front. Not even thousands in-fact. I earn a comfortable living from it and tons of gratitude from happy customers.
It's pretty easy to stand out to your advantage by being fair and honest. People notice it and they tell other people too.
A properly maintained composting toilet produces what is effectively compost. It smells like soil, not poop. I believe the tradition is that you empty the toilet and then let it sit for a year while the decomposing reaction is going on and it's safe to use as fertilizer the next year.
Loudness of gunshots. Every action hero would be deaf.
Archers being told to "hold". Nobody's holding a +100lbs warbow.
Sprinklers. In the vast majority of cases they react to heat - not smoke. They only go off individually rather than all at once and the water inside the pipes is black ink-like rust water sludge, not clear tap water.
Also another plumbing related: you don't need a huge wrench under the sink and drains are not pressurized so there's no water spraying anywhere when you mess with the p-trap.
I'm still convinced that people don't like me and that someone is constantly mad at me for something I did without knowing but the longer I live, the higher the stack of evidence against that view has grown.
Perhaps the actually unlikable people don't, infact, spend much time thinking about this stuff.
In that case one should then be more specific about what it is exactly that they dislike rather than just treating the whole "profession" of content creation as if there weren't levels to it. Most of even objectively bad content is still harmless. Getting annoyed by it is bordering on self-harm as nobody is forcing anyone to consume that content. That's kind of like someone getting angry at my Lemmy post for not being entertaining to them.
I too dislike inauthenticity, vanity, consumerism, and low-effort content made primarily to farm engagement but for the most part I just don't pay any attention to it. I'm not against people being into stuff that I'm not for as long as it's not harming anyone else. And yes, in some extreme cases content creation can be that as well.
I get the frustration with people inflating their own importance with fancy titles. That part is fair.
Where I push back is treating “content creator” as if it’s automatically a bullshit term. To me, it’s just a broad, neutral description - it means someone who makes videos, podcasts, or other material for an audience. It doesn’t imply skill, value, or prestige by itself. You can be a great content creator or a terrible one, just like you can be a great journalist or a terrible one.
Tom Scott is a content creator. So is some guy filming himself ranting in his car. The term covers both. The fact that a lot of low-effort stuff exists under that label doesn’t make the category itself meaningless - it just means the barrier to entry is low and the incentives reward volume.
Why? What's wrong with, for example, someone making YouTube videos and being paid a living wage for it? I'm genuinely curious about where this negative attitude towards these people is stemming from.
"Hyper realistic" is a bit of a stretch. It doesn't look real any more than it looks like Amy.