WHY MY WORK COMES WITH A DISCLAIMER
You’ve seen it before—right before a video that shows something graphic or triggering:
“Content Warning: This footage may disturb some viewers.”
Mine is sightly different.
CONTENT WARNING: The following video does not contain viral hooks, dopamine dumps, or trending audio. It may ask more from you than you were expecting to give on your scroll.
Why? Because this is not content in the way we’ve come to define it. This is creative formation. This is my life’s work.
Every article I publish, every post I send, every line of The Shadow Players, Bruce Ryder, or Miss Em is part of a preserved thread—a source code I’ve fought to protect. These aren’t fragments of a CapCut trend. They are golden filaments pulled from memory, soul, battlefields, paths unknown and silence.
I’ve survived attempts to sever this cord. I’ve walked through the overwrites. And what you see now—what you read—is what remains.
Unaffiliated. Unreplicated. Uncompromised. It took every piece of me to hold onto that cord. And it’s my responsbility to deliver it into the world…. with appropriate disclaimers.
You are free to scroll past. You are free to prefer the algorithm’s rhythm. But if you stay—if you read—know that what you are receiving is not manufactured. It is not optimized for your attention span. It is not packaged to seduce your engagement.
My responsibility is not to judge what we consume. My job is to name what I produce.
It’s up to me to draw a line in the sand—and gild it in gold thread.
And this is not content.
This is creative formation.
This is the thread.
—Miss Em
