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I loathe that stupid YouTube face that they all make. https://news.avclub.com/why-does-everyone-on-youtube-make-the-same-dumb-face-1825179202 https://news.avcl

I loathe that stupid YouTube face that they all make. https://news.avclub.com/why-does-everyone-on-youtube-make-the-same-dumb-face-1825179202 https://news.avclub.com/why-does-everyone-on-youtube-make-th...

nitrogen 6y ago
Why does everyone feel the need to screw with scrolling (the avclub link scrolls much faster and weirder than the Firefox Android default)? It's disorienting.
- TwoBit 6y ago
  Because they read some blog post about this cool thing you can do...
waiseristy 6y ago
One must have the almighty algorithms odd face fetish blessing
- Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  It's not even the algorithms themselves, it's human behaviour and the magic "engagement" metric. Of course, it's also a self-reinforcing thing; there's articles telling people to put reaction faces on their preview images to increase engagement, there's articles telling people to use jump cuts, enthousiastic / shouty voices, certain microphone / camera setups, etc. Thousands of "do this ONE TRICK to boost your engagement on youtube by 0.34%" kind of articles and tutorials, trying to cargo cult aspiring video makers into doing the same thing that some of the top youtubers do. I'll stick to my series of disembodied hamhands and Scottish space nerds, thank you.
  - dkdbejwi383 6y ago
    I hate the jump cuts. It's just distracting when a sentence has been spliced together from four or five takes (or maybe just two which they alternate between). It's as distracting. And hard to follow. As it would be. To read a sentence. That has had full stops added. All over the place. Like this.
  - alex_duf 6y ago
    scottish space nerds? I'm interested!
    - Ivoah 6y ago
      Presumably referring to Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A
mongol 6y ago
For me, those faces signals that the video is garbage.
- jedimastert 6y ago
  Trying to get as many eyes on videos as possible has no correlation with the quality of video.
yreg 6y ago
I'm more bothered by the seo text. It keeps repeating the same thing, similar to some autogenerated spammy website. cmd + f `huge .* lens` -> 7 results
scotty79 6y ago
Funny how advertisement on this post about "youtube" face shows the photo from this article https://news.avclub.com/rudy-giuliani-accidentally-leaves-voicemail-for-wrong-s-1846006062 https://news.avclub.com/rudy-giuliani-accidentally-leaves-vo...
- Solocomplex 6y ago
  Well? Did you $$engage with the content$$?
smcl 6y ago
Immortalised in this Rob Whisman tweet https://twitter.com/robwhisman/status/735281634656669696?lang=en https://twitter.com/robwhisman/status/735281634656669696?lan...

nitrogen 6y ago

Why does everyone feel the need to screw with scrolling (the avclub link scrolls much faster and weirder than the Firefox Android default)? It's disorienting.

TwoBit 6y ago
Because they read some blog post about this cool thing you can do...

waiseristy 6y ago

One must have the almighty algorithms odd face fetish blessing

Cthulhu_ 6y ago
It's not even the algorithms themselves, it's human behaviour and the magic "engagement" metric. Of course, it's also a self-reinforcing thing; there's articles telling people to put reaction faces on their preview images to increase engagement, there's articles telling people to use jump cuts, enthousiastic / shouty voices, certain microphone / camera setups, etc. Thousands of "do this ONE TRICK to boost your engagement on youtube by 0.34%" kind of articles and tutorials, trying to cargo cult aspiring video makers into doing the same thing that some of the top youtubers do. I'll stick to my series of disembodied hamhands and Scottish space nerds, thank you.
- dkdbejwi383 6y ago
  I hate the jump cuts. It's just distracting when a sentence has been spliced together from four or five takes (or maybe just two which they alternate between). It's as distracting. And hard to follow. As it would be. To read a sentence. That has had full stops added. All over the place. Like this.
- alex_duf 6y ago
  scottish space nerds? I'm interested!
  - Ivoah 6y ago
    Presumably referring to Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzC4EngIsMrPmbm6Nxvb-A

mongol 6y ago

For me, those faces signals that the video is garbage.

jedimastert 6y ago
Trying to get as many eyes on videos as possible has no correlation with the quality of video.

yreg 6y ago

I'm more bothered by the seo text. It keeps repeating the same thing, similar to some autogenerated spammy website. cmd + f `huge .* lens` -> 7 results

scotty79 6y ago

Funny how advertisement on this post about "youtube" face shows the photo from this article https://news.avclub.com/rudy-giuliani-accidentally-leaves-voicemail-for-wrong-s-1846006062 https://news.avclub.com/rudy-giuliani-accidentally-leaves-vo...

Solocomplex 6y ago
Well? Did you $$engage with the content$$?

smcl 6y ago

Immortalised in this Rob Whisman tweet https://twitter.com/robwhisman/status/735281634656669696?lang=en https://twitter.com/robwhisman/status/735281634656669696?lan...