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> Why are you not skipping the bullshit Honestly? Because I was expecting to hear something interesting at any moment. When I saw the length, I expected to see
by scambier 5y ago
> Why are you not skipping the bullshit
Honestly? Because I was expecting to hear something interesting at any moment. When I saw the length, I expected to see a technical explanation, a step-by-step how-to, a live example with the ffmpeg CLI. Anything remotely interesting.
What I absolutely did not expect was a 6 minutes long "introduction" out of a 8:30 minutes video. All of that to finally say "it's 2 videos stitched together, like and subscribe"
- joshspankit 5y agoIs there enough of a market for extremely short YouTube videos so that people could make a living just making “It’s 2 videos stitched together”? Honestly, my heart wants it to be true.
- sonar_un 5y agoShort videos get killed by the YouTube algorithm since it’s difficult to show ads.
- manquer 5y agoThey do youtube shorts for 1 minute videos
- joshspankit 5y agoRight! Exactly! That’s why I’m curious if it’s possible for creators to make 1-2 sentence videos that are profitable enough for the platform those videos are on that they can pay the creators well.
- dredmorbius 5y agoI think that's where TikTok and other emerging video platforms might have an edge. Imgur includes a fair bit of video with roughly a 60s cap. Monetisation seems mostly to be based around branding / influencing.
- selimthegrim 5y agoPretty soon the industry will be reduced to bunches of three preteen content creators in a trenchcoat.
- emodendroket 5y agoYeah, TikTok.
- joshspankit 5y agoHahaha, I knew this comment was coming. Fun fact: TikTok is experimenting with longer videos. I think they’re up to 3min already.
- emodendroket 5y agoEventually all these things converge on an identical feature set, I guess.
- joshspankit 5y agoI never understood why. Look at Snapchat: when it was just 1:1 messages that disappeared people got that. People liked it, used it, tried to get their friends on it, and so-on. Now it’s instagram, so why not just use instagram? By moving away from their market differentiator they made themselves replaceable.
- cesarb 5y ago> out of a 8:30 minutes video A friend of mine who has an youtube channel once explained to me that he had to add more content to one of his videos which otherwise would end up being too short, since there's a minimum length before youtube can monetize the video. IIRC, the minimum length was something like 8 minutes.
- bsder 5y agoAnd here we have yet another example of the GooTube monopoly making the internet shittier.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSkip forward rapidly until something interesting is being said. When it is, skip back a bit to find the start of that segment. As with others, I make heavy use of mpv to (mostly listen to, occasionally actually watch) video, on YT and elsewhere. It's exceedingly good at pulling media references out of random URLs, though not bulletproof. Earlier today I had to scan through the downloaded HTML to find, and fix, the audio URL for a This American Life episode covering Reality Winner. Then I rapidly scanned through the downloaded audio looking for the start of the segment I was interested in --- 37 minutes into a 1 hour programme. Much as you don't have to read an entire book to find the chapter or passage of interest (I'm mostly referring to non-fiction here), you don't need to placidly sit through full audio or video sessions either. You can, of course, also repeat sections of particular interest.