Streamers Want You To Dumb Down Your Film and TV Ideas
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While not the same "streamer" as I was thinking (i.e. Twitch), the point I was going to make still stands. I'm not sure streamers have been good for anything. They are like a disease.
Everything is being dumbed down for attention span, it's insane.
And why?
The fault as always lies with content creators who stretch the most minor commentary into ages of ponderous useless bullshit.
The Quartering is king of this. The entire content of most videos being at most 3 sentences, but they have to stretch to that 10 minutes.
It means that i develop a strategy to save myself time, and the heuristic i end up with is that the first third and last third of every video is pointless bullshit. I can waste 15 seconds each side to get 30 seconds of content. I'm not wasting 10 minutes each side to get 10 minutes of content. Fuck off.
The well is poisoned. Too bad.
Not to mention half of "content creators" are charisma-less sacks of shit with whiny nasally voices that make me what to spew.
The people who are actually compelling earn their hour of content which I will listen to cover to cover, everybody else is just a dumbass with a microphone.
I didn't watch it :p
How so? I'd never fault the ones that make an offer. The fault lies with the people taking that offer. Obviously there's enough idiots that watch that shit. Quartering et al. would be idiots if they changed their ways.
Because they ruined the ability of viewers to trust them? Lol
My comment isn't hard to understand.
But they haven't. They're still around and arguably succesfull, despite doing the thing you say (and I agree) is offputting.
Using the McDonald's argument unironically is my cue to not talk to you ever again.
Interpreting it as the McDonalds-Argument shows that you don't read what you get sent.
I didn't say their content is of any quality whatsoever. I said that they have no reason to change when what they do works. I'd bet that they lose subscribers and views when they start doing what you would want them to do. From their point of view it'd be idiotic to change their output.
I mean I avoid a ton of long videos too. It's quality of content though. Like even things I agree with, some of the autist videos posted on here tend to ramble badly. Like an hour of video "Joe Biden is bad. Bad, Joe Biden is. The President is bad. Did I say Joe Biden is bad?" Like it's an hour of going on and on without adding much additional knowledge to make me interested. Gaming stuff is tough. If it's a new game I'm likely to skip around, look for gameplay, see it, and bail. I came into that video wanting to see gameplay though. Im generally not interested if you like the game, unless ive watched you enough to know we share interests. If I'm learning about an old system, how a game was made, etc. I'll stick around way too long.
Compare with somebody like Razorfist, not a word wasted, every sentence is compelling and is a different piece of information, and the videos are done with when he's talk talking.
It's the same phenomenon as everywhere else "wahhh wahhh where's the viewership going whyyyyy" yeah its disappearing because you're garbage.
These people in question listen to that awful monotone black ghetto garbage about dicks and pussies. Probably through their phone speaker.
This goes a long way to explaining this weird trend we’ve been seeing in movies and content.
If anything I’d argue you saw this much earlier like with MTVs undressed where each scene barely lasted 2 minutes. ADHD theater…