Content Creation: A modern world career choice

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Azmayeen Aftab (22201300) and Mohammad Farhan Labib (22201635)

In modern times, content creation has become a very popular career choice as nowadays, it isn't very difficult to create content on the internet to entertain people. People are into different types of content. The most prominent one over the years has been social media content. The type of content creation that has become very popular in the last year is the creation of content around games, movies etc.

Gaming content creation is the most popular one in the current generation and while most gaming content creators are very young, they are also very passionate about what they do and they are always finding ways to become better, resulting in more and more content.

Content creation means the contribution of any kind of information to social media to attract a specific audience. Content creation can be in the form of podcasts, YouTube videos, blogs, vlogs, streams and more. In the last decade, gaming content creation has become extremely popular. People have been making content on YouTube and Twitch based on gaming. YouTube is a free video sharing global website and a social media platform where people share different types of content presented in their own way and Twitch is a video live streaming service that mainly focuses on video game live streaming. Most of the famous content creators got famous because of their contribution to the gaming communities of YouTube and Twitch. 

PewDiePie

One example is PewDiePie. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber who was known as the most followed YouTuber for around 5 years making him one of the most notable online personalities and content creators. He based his career around making content based on video games. 

Richard Tyler Blevins aka Ninja

Another example of a gaming content creator is Ninja. Richard Tyler Blevins, who goes by the name Ninja, start to become famous somewhere around September of 2017 after he made his jump to Fortnite streaming. His popularity quickly skyrocketed and he became one of the most important online personalities and the most followed twitch streamer. In the last couple of years, he has played and won many tournaments and has earned a lot of money and fame from twitch streaming, playing tournaments, participating events and collaborating with different stars of social media.

Final Thoughts

So, while content creation might not be an orthodox choice for a career, it has become very popular as a career choice as it allows for the teens of this generation to publish content based around their skill in various sectors of content creation such as gaming, vlogging, podcasts etc. A lot of the teens are very skilled and passionate about content creation and they can come up with pretty good content for the general audience. As a result, they are able to attract a lot of people to consume their content and make money out of it by monetizing their content. YouTube allows monetization on content which makes it a great source of income. Twitch has paid subscriptions usually for 4.99$ a month which makes Twitch streaming a stable source of income provided there's a decent following. Since billions of people access content online daily, it is not hard to become a content creator nowadays. The current valuation of the industry is expected to be at around $13.4 billion.

Content creation is most definitely an art as you can be anything you want based on your skillset and you can advance in that area by keeping up with the trends and learning more and more, resulting in you becoming a better content creator. Therefore, content creation mostly relies on your passion about a specific type of content creation and the skillset that you're developing for it and in the modern world, it is easy to monetize your content. So, content creation definitely can be chosen as a career choice.