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Re: What annoys me about YouTube videos

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Post by bsder »

shannifin wrote: post #17

Fluff. Yep. Fluff makes money. YouTube, books, TV shows... Fluff designed to hold your attention while delivering very little actual content. Very annoying. Please make the world better, don't make the world suffer, Get right to your point and don't be a fluffer.

HAH! But I'm not sure how many people are going to get your joke ... That's pretty specialized jargon. But, Avenue Q had it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs

The only thing he can't make fun of on Twitter is "YouTube Face" ...

Re: What annoys me about YouTube videos

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Post by mikewarot »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #14
naikrovek wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> maybe the author needs to find better videos! the YouTube algorithm significantly increases the recommendation weight of the 9-12 minute videos, though, and decreases the weight of everything else. it's not like 9-12 minute videos are in short supply, either. I'm trying to say that it is often difficult to "find better videos" in any real quantity without a long YouTube watch history demonstrating a preference for…

Right, I'm saying that content creators need to do a better job of writing to that length. Come up with a concept that works in 9-12 minutes, instead of attempting to stretch out a paragraph. Look at it this way—traditional television programs have always had mostly-arbitrary length requirements as well, and I'd say they managed to do a lot with that format!

It typically takes 10 times as long as your content to write a lecture, and according to [1] it takes about 12 hours to produce a minute of video.

The algorithm also likes 2 videos per week.

2 videos * 12 hours work/minute_video * 10 minute_video / video --> 240 hours/week to keep the algorithm happy.

The algorithm is greedy, and is making videos worse.

[1] - https://www.lumavox.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-produce-a-m...

Re: What annoys me about YouTube videos

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Post by SPBS »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #12

One of my favorite college classes was called "Prose Boot Camp", where we basically practiced all the types of writing you don't usually learn in school. Assignments included writing an obituary, a restaurant review, a termination letter, a letter appealing said termination (subtle threats included), and recipe intros for a fictional cookbook called See Dad Cook! . A majority of these assignments had specific word-co…

I disagree, because Bottom Line Up Front. Take the straightest path to communicating intent. Word count is not important.

If your intent is to make the reader feel things with flowery language, then it's appropriate to use flowery language.

If your intent is to convey a concept, then do it ASAP and don't add anything else.

Re: What annoys me about YouTube videos

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

SPBS wrote: post #23
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #12

One of my favorite college classes was called "Prose Boot Camp", where we basically practiced all the types of writing you don't usually learn in school. Assignments included writing an obituary, a restaurant review, a termination letter, a letter appealing said termination (subtle threats included), and recipe intros for a fictional cookbook called See Dad Cook! . A majority of these assignments had specific word-co…

I disagree, because Bottom Line Up Front. Take the straightest path to communicating intent. Word count is not important. If your intent is to make the reader feel things with flowery language, then it's appropriate to use flowery language. If your intent is to convey a concept, then do it ASAP and don't add anything else.

Just because a company may have an elevator pitch, doesn't mean that's the best way to explain their business given more time, right? The elevator pitch may be less detailed, or less nuanced, or simply less convincing—but it's useful because of it's brevity.

A lot of topics are like this. So you need to figure out how to do what you can in the space alloted.

Re: What annoys me about YouTube videos

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Post by Doxin »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #24
SPBS wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, because Bottom Line Up Front. Take the straightest path to communicating intent. Word count is not important. If your intent is to make the reader feel things with flowery language, then it's appropriate to use flowery language. If your intent is to convey a concept, then do it ASAP and don't add anything else.

Just because a company may have an elevator pitch, doesn't mean that's the best way to explain their business given more time, right? The elevator pitch may be less detailed, or less nuanced, or simply less convincing—but it's useful because of it's brevity. A lot of topics are like this. So you need to figure out how to do what you can in the space alloted.

I feel like starting a longer pitch with the elevator pitch is probably a good idea. It gives everyone context for the details that'll follow.
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