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What is a "content creator"?

Making content is when people who have nothing to say hire people who are good at saying nothing to "create content" to fill a space on a web site.

It goes back to the early days of the Web in the mid-1990s when web used gee-whizz graphics and all kinds of clever tricks to make all-singing all-dancing web sites.

People visited the site and duly said "Gee whizz!" to all the animated graphics and never returned. They'd already seen it.

Eventually some people worked out that people didn't come back because there was no content. The web pages didn't say anything, that just moved and jumped and sparkled and did whatever clever graphics could do, but they said nothing.

So the site owners having grasped that there needed to be some content, so they called for content creators to fill the space.

Never mistake a "content creator" for an author. A content creator is basically a hack writer paid to fill a space on a web site.

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