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Does survivor bias account for this? Only the best/most worthwhile videos from the "old times" are archived. Right now, we see every piece of crap uploaded to
by Narkov 3y ago
Does survivor bias account for this? Only the best/most worthwhile videos from the "old times" are archived.
Right now, we see every piece of crap uploaded to YouTube. No doubt there's awesome video content being created today - Smarter Every Day by Destin Sandlin seems to fit - but it's surrounded by junk.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoNo, almost every piece of non-live media that was produced from the 1940s onwards went into huge broadcast archives. Some of the media it was stored on was destroyed, or otherwise reused for newer broadcasts, but much of what survived wasn't due to the inherent quality of the content and we have vast amounts of it remaining. Take this compilation of 1960s commercials from the Prelinger archives [0]. These obviously weren't produced to the same quality as the Chevrolet videos, but it's also not drastically different from contemporaneous syndicated content. The pacing is slower than modern ads, most include practical demonstrations of why the product is better/necessary, and there's just less optimization towards the visual frenzy we see today. [0] https://youtu.be/EGUuyewrNNo https://youtu.be/EGUuyewrNNo