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Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by jmkni »

fifticon wrote: post #99

The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.) But then again, if you try to browse…

I worry about putting people like this under the spotlight, especially if their mental health might not be the best.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by ghaff »

polote wrote: post #39
onion2k wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. They do, but only through the proxy of 'likes' and 'followers'. This leads to a bigger problem with web content, especially with video - people conflate the quality of the video production with the quality of the content. Someone who can make slick, glossy videos full of effects will almost a…

It is also the exact same thing with text. Articles that are well written will be much more liked by readers

I agree up to a point but what is "well written" depends to some degree on the reader. You'll find plenty of people here who basically resent literary style of writing and storytelling and would much rather have a dry paragraph or two synopsis.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by petercooper »

daneel_w wrote: post #136

To contrast with some actual and manually created video content: in the early 2010s I came upon a video by a Brazilian man filming himself with his webcam as he lounged in a bed while intensively and hurriedly puffing tobacco in a pipe. I don't know why I clicked his username to check out his other videos, but I found that he had uploaded over 7000 videos. From what I could see, every single one of them depicted him…

One of my pastimes is to find and look through genuine accounts that post consistently with next to no attention. There are so many. Folks who livestream for hours every day, folks who sing or play guitar every day.. One of my favorites is a woman called "movie reviewer" who posts 5-20 second videos every day which never feature movie reviews but are instead basic observations or questions about the world or replies to Reddit threads she doesn't link to.

I originally found this entertaining, but now I'm more in awe of these people's consistency and demonstration of how much the platform means to them in the face of not achieving any traditional type of success on it. YouTube is hugely valuable and one of the best libraries of human experience I can think of – it's absolutely essential, to me, that it stays running for evermore.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by toolz »

Stunting wrote: post #106
toolz wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is important be intellectually stimulated and fiction is one of the worst ways to achieve that. Read a technical book or listen to philosophers debate or brush up on complex historically significant events. At the end of the day art is for entertainment. Whether or not you need the intellectually stimulating element in your art is subjective and unimportant.

I have been pushed in many thought provoking directions because of art. Issac Asimov ignited an interest in math, Kurt Vonnegut books laid a foundation for philosophy pursuits, and an indie film I was dragged to about a patriarch dealing with the inevitably of death completely reset my views on how to pursue life. Everything is everywhere in everything.

of course, I don't mean to downplay the importance of entertainment - just that it isn't the activity that will intellectually challenge people. Anyone can view a painting or watch a film with their own "understanding" of it, it takes dedicated learning to understand math, physics, etc.

I've been to introductory art courses where many students were able to arrive at similar understandings of various artwork as more studied art aficionados. If you were to do the same in a STEM intro course, you'd likely get special attention and it would be noteworthy.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by ajdude »

criddell wrote: post #124
fifticon wrote: post #99

The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.) But then again, if you try to browse…

Maybe Arthur T. Murray wasn't a kook and he finally got Mentifex up and running.

This is what happens when Forth gets networking support.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by someotherperson »

fifticon wrote: post #99

The guy in question appears even stranger if you try to look up "what he is". According to the information he puts up on the internet about himself, he is presumably (..?) an accomplished individual, being affiliated with MariaDB and seemingly being knowledgable about linux/IT stuff (this latter not surprising, to the extent he is the one that has set up that youtube monstrosity.) But then again, if you try to browse…

This comes across as somewhat bullying, intentionally or unintentionally. The person may be neurodivergent and the Twitter account may be a reflection of that.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by was_a_dev »

AlfeG wrote: post #13
mongol wrote: post #3

Why this guy has not been blocked from Youtube is beyond me. He spams so many search results.

Funny enough that I have never seen this account or videos from this account. Only few weeks ago stumbled on article about this guy. Google him, searched him on You Tube. Still no recommendations and results with his videos.

I've been searching for this comment. This is the first time I've heard of this phenomenon and I'd consider myself a heavy and long time user of YouTube

YouTube always amazes me that there can be content creator with millions of subscribers (or number of uploads in this case) that I have never heard of.

Re: A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]

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Post by _gabe_ »

onion2k wrote: post #22
kristopolous wrote: post #7

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. It's become disconnected so much that metrics of quality are seen as arbitrary, unrelated attributes. There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing thin…

The problem of web content is the search and recommendation systems have no opinion on skill, effort, scholarship or accuracy. They do, but only through the proxy of 'likes' and 'followers'. This leads to a bigger problem with web content, especially with video - people conflate the quality of the video production with the quality of the content. Someone who can make slick, glossy videos full of effects will almost a…

> You could put 30 years into learning, understanding, and explaining a complex topic

If you put that much time and effort into a topic, please invest a month into learning how to make slick visuals! The amount of knowledge that's lost due to abhorrent presentation is probably astronomical. This includes papers and books about complex topics!

I don't know where we got the inane idea that you have to be extremely dry and boring to present a complex idea. Bob Nystrom's book Crafting Interpreters is not only a joy to read, it also teaches an incredibly complex topic. 3blue1brown makes amazing animations that explain very deep topics.

If you're going to invest a large portion of your life into learning, it might behoove you to learn how to present that material in an interesting way. Seriously, just take 1 maybe two months to partially work on improving your presentations and the world will benefit so much more because of that.

Stop writing obtuse and dry papers, books, and scripts for videos. Start learning to present well!

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