These are 5 Reasons Content Creators STOP Creating

There’s a content creator in all of us. Sometimes we follow other trends, sometimes we create them. Sometimes your favourite singer, online personality or celebrity can vanish without a trace with no new content that was promised. If you are wondering my your favourite content creators have suddenly stopped creating content, here are five reasons why they may have stopped creating.

1) Major Events

Major events like having a baby or moving house means that content creators will have to stop and concentrate on their major life events. Some things pop up that need a lot of attention and time off so content creators don’t get burned out or crippled with stress. I think most people will understand this reason as everyone wo go through a major life event at some point in our lives.

2) Expectations

There’s a big expectation for content creators to have pretty pictures and gorgeous layouts. Everything needs to be perfect. I’ve seen content creators get bashed for not being perfect a hundred perfect of the time. Being as perfect as your social media posts seem to be is not sustainable. Content creators would be allowed to have bad days just like everybody else.

Expectations can also go the other way too. Maybe a platform and earnings aren’t as good as they were hoping to do. With the high cost of living, it’s easy to see why people are trying to compromise on certain incomes that aren’t making as much and start to focus on one’s that are making the most.

3) Unrealistic Demands

This links with the expectations. The bigger your following, the huger the demands are for content. I’ve seen documentaries of pop stars being pressured into dangerous diets and long hours work whilst gossip magazines and tabloids shred them to pieces for a million of bullshit reasons. Most of it all stems down to the fact they simply have a uterus or a spot on their cheek.

A lot of magazines and adverts photoshop the hell out of people including celebs. This kind of beauty is simply unattainable without millions of dollars. It all leads back to the demand to be perfect 24/7.

4) Health

Being a content creator can have significant impacts in your health. The positives are that it can give you a sense of purpose and a reason for living. The downside is that it can be stressful catching up with deadlines, meeting criteria and standards and going though critics both destructive and constructive. Many content creators, even those with a huge following have to have a full-time job to sustain their lifestyle.

If you look at what is trending or what pops up, it is always the negatives or the demands that get the most attention. This is why you are failing at goal X. You need to buy product Y for goal Z. If you took on every piece of these articles to heart it could make you feel like crap.

There’s also a problem of entitlement from deranged fans. A lot of work goes into making stuff and if you expect humans to create products like a factory, it’s going to exhaust them: physically and mentally.

5) Moving On

No one stays in the same place forever. People leave certain platforms like this one because it feels it can no longer support their creative needs. Vocal for example, dosen’t and has never allowed religous (mainly pro-Christian) content, even the words g*d or j*s*s or even writing about a church gets your article rejected even when it’s about as religious as twerking in a supermarket. So that’s pushed a lot of people away from the platform that were expecting a place where people can be creative and expressive with themselves. As platforms advertise themselves as places to express the true you, if too many people get offended you may be blocked from their platform. That’s the thing with free speech, people will talk shit and say things that you don’t like. You should only interfere if it’s really threatening people. Don’t report somebody because they don’t like the bands that you like for example. Drama is another reason why people stop creating content on platforms cause of the dark rabbit hole of scroll dooming it’s creates.