What are everyone's thoughts on the recent Brundle brouhaha?
  • big big 1y ago 50%

    Who knew, when you try to compel live speech you get shitty speech. The interview exchange is the most contrived medium of exchange ever invented, it actually got a lot of push back when it was first invented or used in news media in the 1850s, presumably for coaxing and normalizing bullshit.

    I don't watch grid walks or anything outside of lights out / chequered flag because shoving cameras in faces of people is just a celebrity on celebrity toss off nowadays.

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  • Poorly edited audiobooks
  • big big 1y ago 100%

    my guy says short lyved instead of short-lived.

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  • Why YOUTUBE is DYING (Creatively and Artistically)
  • big big 4y ago 0%

    This video is a barely disguised nostalgia video with reverse psychology for engagement. I had to switch away tabs to digest the audio only of this empty carb'd meta-critique.

    For sure:

    • YTubers target impulsive viewers to hit ad money metrics, so do games/everything, the idea is to keep them emotional and impulsive too.
    • YTubers today are phoney viewhackers and less passionate or inspirational people
    • YT was better when it was less focused on engagement as the expectations where not widely known or set
    • Reaction thumbnail baits are out of hand
    • Instructionalism or guidance posting "DO THIS, NOT THIS" is out of hand
    • "WILL THIS?" or mystery posting is out of hand
    • The will to be considered and/or ridiculed at all costs is preferable to no clicks

    But the reason for all the bait is that brand is the only defensible power available to the YTuber (read: youtube employee), so videos discreetly bury the lede and redirect expected satisfaction back to the experience of their safe approachable persona.

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    Journalism big 4y ago 100%
    Against 'Long-Form Journalism' (2013)
    https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/against-long-form-journalism/282256/

    We often turn to long-form articles to escape from the endless headline scrolling. This piece is a reminder that the length of a piece alone isn't an indicator of quality, and that unlimited web publishing still has some things to learn about the art of constraint.

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  • big big 5y ago 0%

    Search is coming along nicely, it's fast and relevant, but it would be nice to see the actual community the comment result is is coming from too (it shows the community for posts but not comment search results). Would be good for context.

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