• @otp@sh.itjust.works
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    683 months ago

    Even worse is captions saying what happens. Like it’ll be a video of a baby trying to sit on a chair and missing and falling…and the caption will say “bro missed his chair”.

    Why does a 7 second video need spoilers?

    • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      363 months ago

      That’s up there with the overlay of the “creator” pointing at the spoiler text, needlessly obscuring the actual content.

    • FireWire400
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      193 months ago

      It’s the attention span shrinking as time goes by.

      I have a brilliant idea actually; a video sharing site with a maximum video length of one second. “How much can you fit in a second? Find out for only $10/month”

      • @glimse@lemmy.world
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        153 months ago

        That just made me miss Vine and early Twitter… Attention span be damned, there’s an art to crafting a good joke with a length constraint that I don’t see much on the internet anymore

        • rhythmisaprancer
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          43 months ago

          there’s an art to crafting a good joke with a length constraint

          RIP Mitch Hedberg

          • @glimse@lemmy.world
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            43 months ago

            Yeah. Those platforms were the one-liners of social media comedy. 7 seconds/140 characters to set up and deliver a punch line.

    • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The worst is people verbally explaining what you’re seeing like a fucking documentary. It’s extra bad because they stole the video they’re narrating.

      Even better is a split screen video where the bottom half is someone playing Minecraft or some really simple platform game because people don’t have the attention span to learn some dumb fact without also watching some game on half of their screen.

      I really hate this version of the internet.

      • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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        23 months ago

        Even better is a split screen video where the bottom half is someone playing Minecraft or some really simple platform game because people don’t have the attention span to learn some dumb fact without also watching some game on half of their screen.

        I’ve never seen those in any of my feeds, thankfully. Probably because I tend to watch longer videos and…“original” videos (no overlayed people or other stuff)

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          3 months ago

          Same, but once in a while I start watching a short from one of my subscriptions and then start scrolling. I guess because I watch some gaming content, YouTube thinks I want to watch that drivel.

          • @otp@sh.itjust.works
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            13 months ago

            I watch a lot of gaming content, but it’s mostly video essay or review style stuff. Maybe that’s what keeps my feed clean.

            On YouTube, I don’t watch shorts at all though. And I’m vicious about telling it “Not Interested” when there’s something I don’t want in my feed.

            • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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              23 months ago

              It’s not my feed that has crap. Try swiping up on 100 shorts some night when you can’t sleep and see what you see.