'Content' may be rude, but using it in the modern sense does demonstrate contempt for nuance, in the same way that corporations demonstrate contempt for nuance by using "product" to mean anything from toothpaste to cars to electricity to loans.
rms had an old piece about this that i can't find right now. All my searches are coming up with things to do with his cancellation.<p>By the way I think "consume" is way more cringe than "content" especially when regular people use it to describe what they do.
paywalled<p>"content" is an accurate and intentional term for what "content creators" actually produce. It's substance, it's material, and that's all. There are not guarantees about what it is, nor about the quality. As dog shit is to matter, the stuff "content creators" produce is to content