#vine ig itself wasn't problematic but it opened the door for a lot of bad | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

inazuma-fulgur · 2 years ago

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Bigger, longer videos and essays are something we see disappearing and becoming unpopular more and more with "technological advances" of social media or just about anything.

Fast consumption without thinking, before you even get the chance to log off the next think gets shoved into your face

And like without thinking is something I wanna get at. If everything around you is short and flat and mostly self contained, impossible to compare to other things, impossible to utilize in other contexts and to compare other things amongst each other with. Basically if no nuanced, bigger picture thought and appropriate analytical skill get shown and taught to anyone anymore we will become unable or maybe just too distracted to critique anything in a meaningful way.

If nothing is connected anymore and everything becomes a unique completely individual occurrence there are no trends to criticize.

Even if things aren't unique that doesn't matter much if that is the only way someone can judge and understand the world, so they're unable to find trends and systematic issues. Because those concepts don't exist on short form content platforms.

#content #do I have to say vine was problematic #vine ig itself wasn't problematic but it opened the door for a lot of bad #the ''good'' thing about yt or smth in comparison is that even if encouraged to make content of some length #it isn't impossible to go into depth. and arguably the demand is there. i remember being stuck with 10 min #videos once that was good for the algorithm. or when it was the longer the better #rn we have a focus on feels like both 10 min for midroll adds and 20-25 min for being a good length #but generally all sorts of lengths are searched for among users. but YouTube like everyone else is captivated #by tiktok and saw other social media sites copy them. so now shorts have been doing the best for channels for a few years now #really. if you wanna get big on YouTube upload shorts. they will recommend anything as long as it is a short #as a glitch hunter and speedrun collaborater I've uploaded some weird and context less vids.#for honestly no reason that to share most of them unlisted. but the few that are listed the shorts ones always do better.#even if they're so abstract as to be useless to anyone not hardcore into golden sun 3. while most of the less cryptic videos don't #get any attention #because shorts are about looking weird enough to be interesting for long enough to count as a view #not about creating anything #basically if something only gets views as a short it means it's shit or YouTube hates what content type you do #the first you should feel personally insulted by and start doing other creative work instead of producing #the second you should also feel personally offended by and burn down youtube headquarters* as a result #*in minecraft

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