I Miss the Old Internet (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Post by dredmorbius » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 4:28 AM UTC

joshspankit wrote: post #328

sonar_un wrote: post #197

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Short videos get killed by the YouTube algorithm since it’s difficult to show ads.

Right! Exactly! That’s why I’m curious if it’s possible for creators to make 1-2 sentence videos that are profitable enough for the platform those videos are on that they can pay the creators well.

I think that's where TikTok and other emerging video platforms might have an edge.

Imgur includes a fair bit of video with roughly a 60s cap.

Monetisation seems mostly to be based around branding / influencing.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Post by joshspankit » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 10:25 AM UTC

emodendroket wrote: post #345

joshspankit wrote: post #327

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Hahaha, I knew this comment was coming. Fun fact: TikTok is experimenting with longer videos. I think they’re up to 3min already.

Eventually all these things converge on an identical feature set, I guess.

I never understood why. Look at Snapchat: when it was just 1:1 messages that disappeared people got that. People liked it, used it, tried to get their friends on it, and so-on.

Now it’s instagram, so why not just use instagram?

By moving away from their market differentiator they made themselves replaceable.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Post by sneak » Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 6:52 PM UTC

mcherm wrote: post #241

sneak wrote: post #72

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There are tools to download the automatic captions of youtube videos as text. I do this with a lot of videos.

Sounds useful. Which such tools do you recommend?

youtube-dl

https://superuser.com/questions/927523/how-to-download-only-...

Re: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Post by scambier » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

a1369209993 wrote: post #286

scambier wrote: post #107

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I almost never watch videos, unless it's the necessary medium for the context (i.e. music teaching or movie analysis), because I _need_ text to learn. But. Two weeks ago there was a small video on Discord that crashed the client when you played it. Here's a 8m30s long video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBNQ6tiNcI tl;dw: they used ffmpeg to stitch 2 videos with a different aspect ratio tog…

> they used ffmpeg to stitch 2 videos with a different aspect ratio together, so it crashes chromium. Do you have link to that video? It sounds more (read: at all) interesting than the one you linked.

Sure, here it is: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380564412135768064/84...

Re: I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Post by a1369209993 » Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 8:56 PM UTC

scambier wrote: post #434

a1369209993 wrote: post #286

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> they used ffmpeg to stitch 2 videos with a different aspect ratio together, so it crashes chromium. Do you have link to that video? It sounds more (read: at all) interesting than the one you linked.

Sure, here it is: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/380564412135768064/84...

Thanks!