Twitter C/D

it's really funny to look at the replies of someone who has been blocking blue checks and seeing virtually none of the crap you get on other tweets

someone who is good at cards does seem like the person who would have such an obsession in an almost comical way tho xp

(not dumb things but gaming systems/theoretical algorithms)

yea it reminds me of how the right loves the term 'virtue signaling' because they themselves have never cared about anything that wasn't in their own self-interest and can't imagine anyone else does either. or how the Dilbert guy assumes the only reason people could possibly disagree with him is because they've been persuaded by powerful master hypnotists. which coincidentally is the exact thing he claims to be able to do.

yeah hes also teaches cards so is prob on youtube etc trying to juice his business knee deep in content creator bullshit xp

it's really funny to look at the replies of someone who has been blocking blue checks and seeing virtually none of the crap you get on other tweets

― mh, Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:14 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive been blocking them, for the cause, but i feel kinda conflicted since i also want to see the train wreck

I've seen some Twitter Blue subscribers say stuff like "why WOULDN'T you want to pay a small fee to make your tweet perform well?" And it's like, if I'm paying to make it happen, then it sort of ruins whatever thrill there is from a tweet that takes off organically. I guess if you're just being cold-eyed about it and just want to accrue followers at all costs, then fine, whatever. But I find that approach kind of depressing.

oh yeah poker guys are very weird about their engagement, they do the same annoying shit all the big Youtubers do but most of them are getting less than 1000 views on each video, probably because they're such boring and uncharismatic people who refer to videos as "content". they're good videos if you wanna learn the game though

a few poker guys have good videos but yeah mostly theyre pretty bad

the whole culture of youtube –content creators– is so terrible and bizarre but also kind of fascinating, theyre completely cloistered reinventing the wheel, poorly and weirdly

one thing they do that you dont see on real tv is talk about their process, hence using the term content creator, it must be effective giving people that parasocial thrill, but id rather they not

I play PLO so there's only like 2 or 3 European guys out there making decent vids but I think JNandez is pretty decent. you wouldn't know it though from the thumbnails of him with a wide open mouth pointing to a graph with a title like "POKER PRO MAKES WORST CALL EVER!??"

I've seen some Twitter Blue subscribers say stuff like "why WOULDN'T you want to pay a small fee to make your tweet perform well?" And it's like, if I'm paying to make it happen, then it sort of ruins whatever thrill there is from a tweet that takes off organically. I guess if you're just being cold-eyed about it and just want to accrue followers at all costs, then fine, whatever. But I find that approach kind of depressing.

― jaymc, Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:20 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it makes sense for businesses but that just means twitter will become 100% spam

i do like that the nobodies are the ones with the blue checks now. very poetic somehow.

only good thing about the content creator Youtube grindset is this guy's account which I think is just really funny even if you don't watch the videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

i like galfonds plo videos but theyre not really instructional you have to subscribe to his site for that

oh I see ILX mangled that. the person I'm talking about is Tony Zaret

tho tbf the amateur feel when done well is better than some generic slick tv bs, but still i wish they would stop talking about content, if i were on there id call my stuff art, high art, the best art ever please smash that subscribe button and the bell icon too

xp self re youtube

i guess some people do make money using these strategies.

my feeling is mostly people who do big youtube numbers are just making "good content" and the analytics are secondary, like theyll look at how videos perform and base decisions on that but mostly the reason theyre getting big views is because theyre making things people want to watch

which is somewhat different than say tiktok where trends play a bigger role

xp otm, watch and share with their friends. word of mouth still underrated compared to under the dash analytics.

otoh you have guys like Mr. Beast who built an empire by relentlessly studying what kind of YouTube content gets the most engagement, everything from topic to length to thumbnail to title. you could argue he's making "good content" but really he's letting YouTube's algorithm dictate basically everything he does. which I guess is not too dissimilar to how a lot of pop songs get written if you actually listen to the Swedish dudes who are writing them

isn't this what ai does

except the algorithm = the "the total content of the dataset collected"?

i mean yeah but also hes trying hard to make good videos he puts a lot of money and effort into it, and theres not little skill in reading and synthesizing the trends etc, dont get me wrong its creepy trash but its also not just some ai generated slop xp re mister beast

I mean I guess it's the same idea that sex sells so if you're selling kitchen fixtures you might as well have a spokesperson with a lot of cleavage. everyone thinks it's gross and exploitative but if it works no one's gonna stop doing it

heh "trends curation"(?) vs ai FITE xp

i admit i know nothing of mister beast. or poker! i'm a perfect mark let's play

don draper would frown on the idea that sex sells, i mean theres just no easy way to win you have to figure it out theres a lot of competition

when you want someone to click something, sex and conflict sell. when you are trying to actually sell kitchen fixtures i'm not sure if it does.

algorithmic platforms produce a lot of garbage content because they are just trying to get people to click. it's just disposable content.

which is why this idea that ai will make content easy is just silly theres no barrier to entry, if every grindset guy can do it none will profit, now will there be a role for ai sure, but its a tool that you have to figure out how to use best

algo platforms do want good content tho, thats why they pay popular people to post, ultimately they need stuff that people want to watch

the whole monetized youtube content grind always reminds me of this

i think i'd like to have one of those youtube channels where every video thumbnail is this bullshit pic.twitter.com/2ErC5by2FF

— rob (@robwhisman) May 25, 2016

otoh you have guys like Mr. Beast who built an empire by relentlessly studying what kind of YouTube content gets the most engagement, everything from topic to length to thumbnail to title. you could argue he's making "good content" but really he's letting YouTube's algorithm dictate basically everything he does.

This is also what took a lot of political Youtube shows into anti-vax territory (Jimmy Dore) and other things that increase clicks

My 8 yo is a Mr. Beast fan, and he's been bugging us to let him do Youtube vids. He's already talking about subscription numbers and advertising rates.

yes they create very bad incentives

people don't have beliefs as much as they have monetizing engagement on their content creation

oh yeah poker guys are very weird about their engagement

let's not forget this asshole is also an anti-woke transphobe

lol thumbnail shit is funny i actually kind of find it charmingly trashy, heres a random quad of things youtube thinks i will like based on my terrible viewing habits

https://i.imgur.com/wX8Eo0s.png

damn they've got you figured out

Could not get "The Treachery of Images, but make it a YouTube thumbnail" out of my head. pic.twitter.com/8Gb8Fi7lxr

— Chris Franklin (@Campster) June 2, 2022

Can't search now without logging in. So much for checking traffic tweets before leaving work!

but then look at this doug demuro has 5m subscribers and its usually just a thumbnail of him next to a car no arrows no text, he to me is the perfect youtuber charmingly amateurish on the surface while actually making very good tight videos, then youve got the charts guy with just a picture of a chart, basketball guys thumbnail looks more like something from a magazine feature

https://i.imgur.com/4aTe5WE.png

let's not forget this asshole is also an anti-woke transphobe

― rob, Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:02 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Who you talking about here

then youve got things on youtube that are just best in class, like this video is so much better than anything youll ever see on tv, which is kind of the beauty of youtube, cause most espn viewers arent looking for a technical deep dive on an obscure nba defensive specialist, but i am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSEhldubhs

xp to frogbs
the guy who didn't know who Albini was

i do like that the nobodies are the ones with the blue checks now. very poetic somehow.

― treeship., Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:30 AM bookmarkflaglink

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s_V6knB0lA4/maxresdefault.jpg

Dr. Seuss nailed it.

lol