@orliesaurus, the challenge is that a subset of the DevRel community will ignore the caution and result in memes. The irony is that oftentimes the meme is pointed at DevRel, in general.

my suggestion to new and existing developer advocates: go deep in your technical expertise (first point of https://www.dewanahmed.com/identity-crisis-devrel/#but-there...). Sort of "So Good They Can't Ignore You" DevRel edition :)

@mooreds and other DevRel leaders make the same suggestion.

but DevRel folks, alone, cannot resolve this issue. generalization is typically a bad idea. can you name any role which doesn't have a meme part to it? you hear more about DevRel folks because we create content as part of our job and that's why our voices are a bit louder out there. I'm sure from fullstack Devs to SREs to data analyst - every role out there has similar (more or less) feeling about identity, value, and impact.