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?
That’s up there with the overlay of the “creator” pointing at the spoiler text, needlessly obscuring the actual content.
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”
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
I did X and this happened!
Also, if the title of a news article is in the form of a question I just mutter to myself “no” and keep scrolling without even reading it.
Betteridge’s law of headlines supports you.
SoUNd oN
Not clicking that either
Always some annoying bullshit at the end
Especially when the video is only 15 seconds long. Has the average attention span really fallen so far that one can’t wait like 10 seconds for the funny part? (The answer is yes, I know, I’ve seen kids scrolling through TikTok and skipping a video after just a second or two).
Have you ever considered that those kids already saw the video and don’t want to watch again?
I appreciate the warning as it readily admits the majority of the content is boring enough to make you want to scroll away.
Have you considered just not watching shortform video like tiktoks and youtube shorts?
Yup! That’s in fact what I myself don’t do.
I cross posted this post from another to MildlyInfuriating because it’s the kind of content this community is for. Not because I myself was soliciting advice.
The clickbait will continue until it stops working.
I Dare you to watch this entire video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edx9D2yaOGs
Challenge not accepted! 💪
“watch until the end”
Yeah, that’s how videos work.
Nah, I like to close my eyes at the penultimate second of any video I would otherwise have watched to the end. Just to be difficult.
Is this some New Social Media platform problem I’m too elder millenial to understand?
It’s like the TikTok equivalent of YouTube clickbait titles and thumbnails. I don’t even use TikTok, but I can hear the stilted AI lady voiceover saying, “Wait Until The End. You Won’t Believe The Transformation.”
Longer engagement times on videos are rewarded with higher priority in the Feed and more advertising revenues.
These videos are responding to the economic incentives created by the social media industry. Nothing you - personally - do will change this because you - personally aren’t the target audience.
Start ending videos with “wait til the beginning of the next video!” instead of “see you next time!”
till
If they could please just spell the word correctly, that’d be great.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/till
Googled it for you so you can be less wrong next time
But no, you don’t understand, LaNgUaGeS cHaNgE oVeR tImE
