Video with seekable interface: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk (at least on desktop; YMMV)
Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...
Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...
- Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.
- Always shot vertically.
- Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken.
Sorry for the tangential rant.
Could you imagine consuming normal content that way (e.g. HN threads)? That would be anxiety inducing (and honestly, these types of videos are probably causing some level of anxiety to some people without them even realizing it).
you mean vertically?
I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.
Yes, there is fluff content that isn't necessary and can be cut out to make the video (in some cases, much) shorter.
What I'm talking about is the video equivalent to "wall of text" -- talking with zero pauses (because all pauses have been edited out).
I wish you could scrobble through a video - it's more frustrating on Youtube because you always could and now all of a sudden you can't, and now videos 60 seconds or less get auto-converted into shorts (from what I've understood). Very annoying.
Whoever designed this knew what they were doing on an addictions/product/customer retainment level because it sure wasn't a usability/UI engineer that made this decision.
The aggression, quick cuts, single word subtitles...
I don't understand the appeal of this style. I wonder how people will look back at this era of video editing in 10 years.
In 10 years something even more horrible will be hip and tiktok'ers will be whatever dated slang there is for big yikes.
https://www.youtube.com/v/fLEOiQdDkzk
this gives you a normal looking youtube page