Anyone Can Become a Publisher Now

With the help of media, anyone with a device that connects to the internet can create content, just like I am right now. I think that this can aid creativity and originality, as well as hinder it. Since there is so much content and entertainment on the internet presented through different media outlets, it is difficult to get bored. It is so easy to get lost surfing the web because there are so many people that post content everyday. The same goes for news stories and books, although it is harder to publish a book. posting on the internet is so easy, so the amount of content available there is exponentially larger than the amount of books available, which is already a lot. there is also a large amount of media that is just repetitive and covers the same thing, which adds the unoriginal aspect of the large umbrella of media. The media can also be beneficial and aid creative minds because of the fact that anyone with a device that connects to the media can publish their work. For example, when Sylvester Stallone wanted to sell his script for the movie Rocky, he went to several studios to find one that would let him play the lead role for the movie and many of them declined his offer. eventually he found one that agreed to his conditions and the movie became extremely popular. it would have been so much easier if sites such as "Youtube" were around because anyone with a device that connects to the internet can create content on these sites. This can also cause problems within the creative community because with all of this content and media, valuable productions can be swept under the rug and things like click bait and advertisments can overcome the more insightful posts that more creative people make. There is so much content to see that it is difficult to distinguish yourself as a creator of content because your work will forever be compared to the work of others. There is too much to watch out for in terms of copyright and attempts at being original in creations, that it is difficult not to submit to mainstream media and post the same kind of things as most other content creators. sometimes I wonder what kind of things get swept under the rug that could have been the next big thing or could have been admired by many people if not for the content overload that media presents people with.