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I just read Safiya Nygaard’s blog about her “disappearance” and I feel like it shows how much we take content creators for granted and treat them inhumanly. Saf isn’t the only content creator I’ve seen recieved such ridiculous comments from viewers.
The whole entitlement and how social media nowadays enable parasocial relationship too easily is just overall bad. Often times we consumers think know better. It’s one thing to criticise a content creator out of good faith but other to assume what they did is purely wrong....
....without nuance and reanalyzing context — sometimes we accuse content creators of things we mask as “criticism” or sometimes we demand too much of things, disregarding the creator’s limitation, capabilities, and boundaries by projecting our frustration, even anger at them.
Of course this exclude creators whose primary content is to spread bigotry and oppression of human rights in which we need to call out the harm they’re causing, but most the time we do this to creators who do things for fun and entertainment instead
I’ve even seen this happen to small niche fanartists too and they’re “less prominent” if compared to a much more publicly renowned youtuber in Saf’s level. That is how awful we treat content creators, we do this to any kind of content creators.
While it’s good that social media platforms allow content creators to be more independent, there’s no longer a “fourth wall” to protect them like prime days of television. Every thing you say goes directly to them and we tend to not think of what we say.
We forgot behind every account is a human being. We forgot that what we see is just a tiny spec of their entire life, or day even.
Anyway, idk how to end this thread, but maybe let’s all think about it for a moment
Anyway, idk how to end this thread, but maybe let’s all think about it for a moment
