On Content Creation

I feel cranky. Like everyone has come to my turf and is all pleased with themselves without crediting us old heads. Content Creators? What is this word? We were artists. We blogged. We were rrriot girls. We wrote 'zines. We played music in basements and made sticker art that went all over the world. Now my graffiti artists friends are called "street artists".... our dance moves are taught on youtube. Shepard Fairy was a RISD-y kid and now he is millionaire. Our youth was alive and pulsating and it's packaged and produced now, controlled by algorithms. F**k you, algorithms. We were trying to tear down the world as we knew it and create art that was free and you have trapped us in algorithms.

Segue: I've succumbed. I am making Tik Tok. I am making IG videos. I love them and loathe them.

Someone asked me a few weeks ago if I was an "artist" or a photographer. Jesus. What a question. If I put on a wig and tennis outfit and viral my toks will you accept me as a serious painter?

This is not a rhetorical question.