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Short video content is cancer. I wish you the best, looks like a good solution. Don’t worry about me, I just hate it.

by 2024throwaway 3y ago

makeitshine 3y ago
I normally agree, but there are times when I want a short video. For example, my wife makes crochet and knitting videos. She has series which are 30-60s long and cover one technique. The opposite are people who want to waste your time with a 30 second intro, a talk about whatever and then spend 30s showing you the same technique. This is not ops target, I understand.
- unglaublich 3y ago
  Okay! BUT ((why)) this VERY Annoying!? Format :head_explode:
- Timwi 3y ago
  There's no reason people can't make 30 seconds-long videos. Your crochet/knitting use-case sounds perfect! The problem is with how YouTube treats short videos as its own thing, expects them to be in vertical video format (because rotating your phone is asking too much) and completely messes up the UI (can't even seek properly). I think channels with short videos that teach a technique or a nugget of knowledge could be very popular and very effective (educationally speaking) if it weren't for the capitalist enshittification.
  - makeitshine 3y ago
    It's funny you mention vertical videos. I'm currently working on a toy project using MobileNet which classifies YouTube thumbnails as clickbait or not, as per my preferences, and I classify every vertical video as such. It needs more training data but it's up to ～78% accuracy at the moment. Next I'm loading it in a Chrome extension.
mrtksn 3y ago
These days long videos are short videos with 10x fillers to optimize the runtime for advertisers. A video about this psychological phenomenon? Why don’t we start with defining what is psychology, a history of it and and some surprising fact before telling you this thing rahat takes 20s to tell? Also, let’s hear from our sponsors first. The really long videos are just background noise people play when doing other stuff. Really low quality garbage. IMHO short videos == bad is unjustified meme. Some TikTokers have mastered it, they will have an intro that is shorter than the actual content, you can decide if you want to watch this in just a few moments and then deliver you the money shot. The long 3 min videos that keep building up are insufferable though. Short videos are not really for the people with low attention span, it’s just that it takes a few seconds to explain anything and it takes 10,000 to master it. 22 minutes video about why the Catholic Churches look the way they they look isn’t a step towards mastering architecture or theology, it’s just 21 minutes of fillers like history and examples to deliver the idea that Catholicism is very centered around the church, therefor they design it to look like an authority. A 20 second TikTok video will be available to convey the same information without wasting your time and if you’re actually interested and master this stuff you can go read books or join a program that teaches the subject. It’s no surprise that some of the best tech videos on YouTube are by Fireship. Their videos are somewhere between 1 and 4 minutes long, including the jokes.
arommelaere 3y ago
I'm worry about you now lol
- 2024throwaway 3y ago
  Thanks bruv. I’m good ish.

Short video content is cancer. I wish you the best, looks like a good solution. Don’t worry about me, I just hate it.

I normally agree, but there are times when I want a short video. For example, my wife makes crochet and knitting videos. She has series which are 30-60s long and cover one technique. The opposite are people who want to waste your time with a 30 second intro, a talk about whatever and then spend 30s showing you the same technique. This is not ops target, I understand.

unglaublich 3y ago
Okay! BUT ((why)) this VERY Annoying!? Format :head_explode:
Timwi 3y ago
There's no reason people can't make 30 seconds-long videos. Your crochet/knitting use-case sounds perfect! The problem is with how YouTube treats short videos as its own thing, expects them to be in vertical video format (because rotating your phone is asking too much) and completely messes up the UI (can't even seek properly). I think channels with short videos that teach a technique or a nugget of knowledge could be very popular and very effective (educationally speaking) if it weren't for the capitalist enshittification.
- makeitshine 3y ago
  It's funny you mention vertical videos. I'm currently working on a toy project using MobileNet which classifies YouTube thumbnails as clickbait or not, as per my preferences, and I classify every vertical video as such. It needs more training data but it's up to ～78% accuracy at the moment. Next I'm loading it in a Chrome extension.

mrtksn 3y ago

These days long videos are short videos with 10x fillers to optimize the runtime for advertisers. A video about this psychological phenomenon? Why don’t we start with defining what is psychology, a history of it and and some surprising fact before telling you this thing rahat takes 20s to tell? Also, let’s hear from our sponsors first. The really long videos are just background noise people play when doing other stuff. Really low quality garbage. IMHO short videos == bad is unjustified meme. Some TikTokers have mastered it, they will have an intro that is shorter than the actual content, you can decide if you want to watch this in just a few moments and then deliver you the money shot. The long 3 min videos that keep building up are insufferable though. Short videos are not really for the people with low attention span, it’s just that it takes a few seconds to explain anything and it takes 10,000 to master it. 22 minutes video about why the Catholic Churches look the way they they look isn’t a step towards mastering architecture or theology, it’s just 21 minutes of fillers like history and examples to deliver the idea that Catholicism is very centered around the church, therefor they design it to look like an authority. A 20 second TikTok video will be available to convey the same information without wasting your time and if you’re actually interested and master this stuff you can go read books or join a program that teaches the subject. It’s no surprise that some of the best tech videos on YouTube are by Fireship. Their videos are somewhere between 1 and 4 minutes long, including the jokes.

arommelaere 3y ago

I'm worry about you now lol

2024throwaway 3y ago
Thanks bruv. I’m good ish.