• Schwim Dandy@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I appreciate the warning as it readily admits the majority of the content is boring enough to make you want to scroll away.

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I LOVE engagement farming. I LOVE generating all that revenue and data to be mined for my precious share holders who I owe my LIFE to.

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Even worse is captions saying what happens. Like it’ll be a video of a baby trying to sit on a chair and missing and falling…and the caption will say “bro missed his chair”.

    Why does a 7 second video need spoilers?

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      That’s up there with the overlay of the “creator” pointing at the spoiler text, needlessly obscuring the actual content.

    • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      2 days ago

      It’s the attention span shrinking as time goes by.

      I have a brilliant idea actually; a video sharing site with a maximum video length of one second. “How much can you fit in a second? Find out for only $10/month”

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        That just made me miss Vine and early Twitter… Attention span be damned, there’s an art to crafting a good joke with a length constraint that I don’t see much on the internet anymore

    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      The worst is people verbally explaining what you’re seeing like a fucking documentary. It’s extra bad because they stole the video they’re narrating.

      Even better is a split screen video where the bottom half is someone playing Minecraft or some really simple platform game because people don’t have the attention span to learn some dumb fact without also watching some game on half of their screen.

      I really hate this version of the internet.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Nah, I like to close my eyes at the penultimate second of any video I would otherwise have watched to the end. Just to be difficult.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    101·
    2 days ago

    Especially when the video is only 15 seconds long. Has the average attention span really fallen so far that one can’t wait like 10 seconds for the funny part? (The answer is yes, I know, I’ve seen kids scrolling through TikTok and skipping a video after just a second or two).

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      “Wait for the end” or “the last one will shock you” is because the video gets an algorithm bump if people watch it all the way to the end. Only reason. To make more money.

        • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 day ago

          It should, they are not giving any proper reason to, just trying to cheaply get more money from you wasting more of your time. They are wrong, they should feel bad. Making a video with the express purpose of trying to milk money out of it is not a successful strategy long-term. Making good content that people want to watch to the end without being told to is much harder, but actually works.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      How much is impatient people and how much is the content creator not understanding how to do a hook at the beginning?

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    I did X and this happened!

    Also, if the title of a news article is in the form of a question I just mutter to myself “no” and keep scrolling without even reading it.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’ve never even heard that line in anything I watch. If I see thumbnail faces, I instantly block the whole channel.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yup! That’s in fact what I myself don’t do.

      I cross posted this post from another to MildlyInfuriating because it’s the kind of content this community is for. Not because I myself was soliciting advice.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Longer engagement times on videos are rewarded with higher priority in the Feed and more advertising revenues.

    These videos are responding to the economic incentives created by the social media industry. Nothing you - personally - do will change this because you - personally aren’t the target audience.

  • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    If it’s interesting I’ll watch until the end. It’s that simple. If you feel the need to tell me how to get through a 30-second video I’m going to assume it’s not worth my time and that’s the only way you can get me to stick around.

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      “Till” and “until” are separate words despite having the same meaning. This meaning of “till” is actually the older word.