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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
algo platforms do want good content tho, thats why they pay popular people to post, ultimately they need stuff that people want to watch
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
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
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
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.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
yes they create very bad incentives
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
people don't have beliefs as much as they have monetizing engagement on their content creation
― mh, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
oh yeah poker guys are very weird about their engagement
let's not forget this asshole is also an anti-woke transphobe
― rob, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
damn they've got you figured out
― mh, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
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
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
Can't search now without logging in. So much for checking traffic tweets before leaving work!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, April 25, 2023 11:02 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Who you talking about here
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
xp to frogbsthe guy who didn't know who Albini was
― rob, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
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
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Dr. Seuss nailed it.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
damn!
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
Jeez, on the nose much, Dr. Suess?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
hahaha
― nxd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
xps more for the poker thread but galfond uses his free videos to get more peeps into his courseslike his style very much tho
― nxd, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
imo his youtube videos stand on their own but yeah if you want more formal instruction youve gotta pay, luckily for me i dont just in it for the entertainment rarely play anymore and never played plo
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
YouTube is awesome if you use it to find what you are interested within, I think leaving it to algorithmic chance is a dicey proposition. It seems like any random thread can lead into some dark alley crap in a couple moves, some times even on the YouTube kids app.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
yeah youtube is in some ways amazing its prob the greatest learning resource ever assembled like if you want to fix your car you can find a video thatll help you do it but also it creates nazis
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link
yeah I used it to replace the heating element on my dryer and also to fix the vent on a dishwasher
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
I used it in the bathroom once to learn how to crack crabs while on a dinner with a client, to avoid embarrassing myself I'm front of said client.
He then turned out to be a racist birther
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
*sad trombone*
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
Lol cat repairs are def one of the best things to find on there
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
*car
i watched a semesters worth of a yale classes on history of ukraine that was great, truly the promise of the internet paying off
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
i love the open yale courses
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
the teacher was amusing and just matter of factly used a framework of empire for the whole thing which is not something you typically get in a history documentary or whatever
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
i like this one: https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300 sometimes i fall asleep listening to him go on about roman jakobsen and jacques derrida and these sorts of people. reminds me of college.
― treeship., Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
i mean i guess i couldve read a book but that seems extreme plus the prof seemed like hed read a bunch of books already and was explaining them so in someways it was like reading many books, checkmate nerds
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
this is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death. pic.twitter.com/ejUGYeVLvM— Cooper (@Cooperstreaming) April 25, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
nothing about the conspiracy theory that elon is running an alt account posing as his 3 year old kid?
he's weird and seemingly on drugs enough that i could believe it
If you are dumb like I am let me explain: Elon showed a screenshot which included him logged into his alt which is a very disturbing alt at best. https://t.co/5m8fnRIm2p— barbarism critic 🛸 #StopCopCity (@SxarletRed) April 24, 2023
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
bit of it on the elon thread, i dont think its a true alt/sock its more what it says in its name a test account for elon, prob particularly to see what twitters like for a normal user that doesnt have millions of followers, some weird posts def tho lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
i mean if youre trying to have a secret account you usually dont put your name in it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
Unless ... you're an attention craving moron?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
yea the most charitable reading is that he's using it to see what content a minor might see/a normal user but the replies are fucking weird
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
I was thinking about the Sneetches the other day too, but the big difference is that the huckster in the Sneetches — Sylvester McMonkey McBean — knows the stars he's selling (and later removing) are worthless, and he makes a ton of money off of them. Elon thinks most people are as blue-check-obsessed as he and his sad fanboys are, and he is losing cash hand over fist because he misunderstands what's actually valuable about Twitter. Or what was, anyway. Should've called McBean.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
feel like this mad man might actually have destroyed twitter with $8 tweets at the top of replies.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah, it was fun blocking them, but there are just too many dummies
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
thinking back to before elon owned twitter watching him and his cronies convince each other that a subscription service was a no brainer "id pay $5 month for twitter" theyd say to each other
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
Show me a Shakespeare play that had lewdness or sexual behavior. I'll wait.— Xxarna Z (@xxenna66) April 24, 2023
honestly it’s very funny to me that tweets like this are getting promoted now
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
why did I read the vile responses to that thread, jfc.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
I mean he appears to literally be logged into it in that screenshot so I don't think it's a 'conspiracy theory' per se
also this is exactly the kind of shit he posts under his main account so why wouldn't it be
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link