Country Dirt Kid
Elite Member
From the looks of it, if a person post a good detecting video on yewtoob they hardly get any views. For some reason the machine just doesn't promote many long videos. However, that same subject condensed into a yootewb shorts video can get 100 views per minute. This is bad news. The problem is that the shorts format must be recorded in vertical portrait mode and less than 60 seconds long. I fear that the mass promotion and use of this format is going to shorten people's attention span and reduce their attention to detail to neanderthal levels. The shorts video format robs the content of its background, its scenery, its story and meaning. In a sense, meaningful things put on utoob shorts becomes a type of cognitive low-resolution noise. This graph shows a short video that I posted. You can see that the machine is recommending this video and it has explosive growth. Jus as quickly as it started youtube kills the video and it's no longer viewed. I think that what's actually happening is that the system analyzes viewer engagement and decides whether this will be the next million view video and then decides to stop promoting it if it doesn't sense the precursors of those viral videos. I think that the end result of the mass use of this format is that people will come to expect everything to be some kind of "short" format. Anything that is not is going to be perceived as too boring or difficult to think about. Thats bad! View attachment 575935
Here is the video.
Here is the video.