Is there a law
stating that all how-to videos must be 12 times longer than they need to be?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 10 Dec 2024, 19:33,
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Yes. There’s also a US federal statute that they must all start with “hey guys!”
I wish someone would train an AI to convert how-to videos into pages of illustrated instructions.
For me it’s worst for game guides. Sometimes I want to find every little collectible and all I can find is a ten minute video instead of the screenshot of the map with a circle on it, which is all I really needed.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 10 Dec 2024, 19:41,
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Just use the visual search and scroll through the video
handy when they haven't bothered with chapters
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Information like this belongs in a diagram or illustrated guide,
but I wouldn't trust AI to create procedures for humans to follow until it gets a little more I.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 10 Dec 2024, 22:25,
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Like there is a law stating that all tech connected video makers
have to use the phrase "Let's get started"
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 10 Dec 2024, 23:59,
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The algorithm rewards you for making longer content.
Therefore 5s of information is conveyed in 12 minutes.
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I seem to remember the cutoff for monetisation was 20 minutes, which is why you always saw videos of 20 minutes and 10 seconds or so - in case YouTube's re-encoding fuckery shortened it under the cutoff.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 10 Dec 2024, 20:42,
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20 mins used to be
The length a video had to be before it got midroll ads shoved in it, so the "just over 20 minute" videos were creators essentially opting-in to midroll ads (and the extra revenue)
Of course these days, youtube will happily shovel 2 sets of midroll ads into a 6 minute video whether you like it or not.
I tried to watch something without adblock recently, and I swear there were more minutes of unskippable ads than there were actual uploaded content
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LP, Wed 11 Dec 2024, 12:57,
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The current rule is 8 minutes if you want mid-roll ad monetization.
So the slop content creators all tend to put out videos just over 8mins long.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 11 Dec 2024, 16:00,
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It wouldn’t be so bad…
…if nine out of ten of the ads I’ve seen recently weren’t for that fucking Sonic the Hedgehog film.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 11 Dec 2024, 17:09,
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^This^
uBlock Origin'd the fuck out of them for years...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 11 Dec 2024, 23:59,
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I'd forgotten there were ads on Youtube until I tried using it on a Fire Stick.
My. God. Never again.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 12 Dec 2024, 11:21,
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Well yes, but how do they know?
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 10 Dec 2024, 23:39,
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They test any proposed alteration by running it through an LLM based on brb's posts
ChatBRB
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