I'm reading this as a sarcastic riff on parent, but parent is right. Seriously, follow Maciej on Twitter. He'd die before seriously referring to someone -- especially Thoreau -- as a content creator.
That's the problem with irony, it can be difficult to be sure, unless you have out-of-band info about the speaker. As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was agreeing with the comment I replied to (by forsaken, which pointed out a joke), and disagreeing with the long comment it replied to (by kafkaesque). You might think I'm being sarcastic now, but I can't do anything more than tell you I'm not.
Wait... I can show you I wasn't sarcastic, by noting the signal that Maciej Ceglowski was joking: he longwindedly repeated (almost) verbatim a long phrase describing the thing that he deplored, and that he would do.
Tim Ferriss-style lifehacks and inspirational quotes
I'm not sure exactly how this is a signal, but it is unusually redundant (making it a signal); and I perhaps part of the humour is that by repeating it, it's presented as if a new thing, unrelated to the previous duplication. Ah, the joys of dissecting humour.
Another signal is the general tone is jokey (and he was even explicit about trolling the audience with Ayn Rand).
Not sure why I'm going to such trouble to clarify. I guess I just don't like being misunderstood. Also, it happened to me once before that someone thought I was being sarcastic online when I wasn't, and I didn't correct it (which I later felt was wrong of me).
I agree with your point for what it's worth!! I also think it's easy to tell Maciej is kidding solely from his writing, but I figured I was biased since I follow him.
He was poking fun at the current culture by calling him a "content creator".
I saw this talk in person, and it was obvious in that context.