Post Ad4HTBpYRCsN6EDzpw by tante@tldr.nettime.org
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(DIR) Post #Ad4GlZcybE94ABXlp2 by tante@tldr.nettime.org
2023-12-22T12:41:12Z
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The worst thing YouTube has created is its prefered style of images with some person gesturing and grimacing in ludicrous ways. I hate it so much.
(DIR) Post #Ad4GyC6RNKMey1LLJg by hagen@mastodon.social
2023-12-22T12:43:26Z
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@tante the even worse part is that there is proof that it actually leads to more views. i don’t know what that says about humanity, but i can’t be good.
(DIR) Post #Ad4H1hwjRG88b2TfRw by zetthochdrei@mastodon.social
2023-12-22T12:43:38Z
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@tante That's what DeArrow is for 🙂 https://dearrow.ajay.app
(DIR) Post #Ad4H6VWT3aBhVsTtsu by tante@tldr.nettime.org
2023-12-22T12:44:17Z
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@hagen people react to people. Sure. I still hate it and judge people who create these
(DIR) Post #Ad4HBad5UteOnd08R6 by lbenedix@chaos.social
2023-12-22T12:45:24Z
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@tante what I hate more is creators A/B testing thumbnails and confusing me to hell when they choose a different one and I don't recognize it again in my watch-later list. 🤬
(DIR) Post #Ad4HGKqjatFxJ5eBWa by neo@soc.psynet.me
2023-12-22T12:46:39Z
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@tante Oh yes! One of the reasons I can't watch LTT anymore. Every time I see one of their stupid thumbs, I feel trolled. It's visual clickbait.
(DIR) Post #Ad4HKAvwP4pvi9uhgO by hagen@mastodon.social
2023-12-22T12:47:20Z
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@tante but not just reacting to people. a couple of months ago mr. beast said thumbnails without teeth are better than smiles showing teeth. it all feels so manipulative.
(DIR) Post #Ad4HOyeBVlhR3NtjNY by guenterhack@chaos.social
2023-12-22T12:48:21Z
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@tante Not to mention the Nazis.
(DIR) Post #Ad4HTBpYRCsN6EDzpw by tante@tldr.nettime.org
2023-12-22T12:48:57Z
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@guenterhack that, too. But that's not YouTube specific I am afraid.
(DIR) Post #Ad4JGxOCVIgEkCj0KG by PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social
2023-12-22T13:09:21Z
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@tante I wish to God that someone who imvent a filter that would scan for YouTuve Faces and delete the thumbnail.
(DIR) Post #Ad4JfqZD0TJEpAk5Cq by SenseException@phpc.social
2023-12-22T13:13:50Z
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@tante "You won't believe how much a face can hurt after THIS." #VideoTitel
(DIR) Post #Ad4KxYsZbjFV8LoKVk by malte@graeber.social
2023-12-22T13:25:32Z
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@tante Hard agree. Of course it's not limited to youtube, but there's a reason it is called "YouTube Face". If I could install a plugin in my browser that would filter those videos away (shouldn't be too difficult for an AI to reckognize as they are so generic said youtubers might as well make a robot produce their thumbnails by now), I would install it at once. #YouTubeFaceBlocker
(DIR) Post #Ad4Ok8y71zTCpEG7MG by guenterhack@chaos.social
2023-12-22T14:10:32Z
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@tante Indeed
(DIR) Post #Ad4QrhZgxrgO5cZIGm by jake4480@c.im
2023-12-22T14:34:26Z
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@tante ugh. That and all the awful AI created thumbnails now. I mean 🤮
(DIR) Post #Ad4bw11xfWM55M3COO by dasfrottier@mastodon.social
2023-12-22T16:38:24Z
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@tante Higher on my list is the phrase "without further ado". It translates to "you may skip whatever comes next"—in most cases the overblown intro, sponsors, Patreon, like and subscribe message.
(DIR) Post #Ad4dNhyMDgim2Y8LKq by tb@tldr.nettime.org
2023-12-22T16:54:30Z
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@tante Decades ago, in the late ‘90s I think, I saw an interesting arg — by Brian Boigon, I thought but could never find it again — that time-based media display formats played a dominant role in structuring certain standards of female beauty in particular. A specific example was Grace Kelly. Her elegant facial (it was argued) contours were ideally suited to large B&W screens, in contrast to the hyperexaggerated faces of actors like Julia Roberts or Angelina Jolie, whose features look like they were attached toa face, almost Mr Potatohead–style — a quality suited to small displays (which at the time meant computers, ~ten years before iPhones etc). In retrospect it seems obvious, at the time less so. There are other less speculative (and less heteronormy / white) examples, like the origins of voguing adopting still photography as a movement vocabulary, or Twitter personas ‘branding’ themselves with dyed hair and clothing color, or some aspects of fandom/cosplay, etc. It seems clear that what you note is an ‘IRL’ adaptation to, and compensation for, many aspects of YT, TT, etc — basically competition in space (screen real estate) and time (fleeting attention). Unrelated: this is probably a better framework for rethinking long-forgotten debates about whether / how video games ‘cause’ violence.