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- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Kinda your own fault for being on Tiktok in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s been a recent flood of it here, though. A new (i think) page titled ‘gifs’ started flooding my All feed and pretty much every post is a “watch till the end” for a 10sec clip…🙄
Most of those are reposted by the same account. You just need to ban a few accounts and the feed is clean again.
Oh yeah, im no stranger to blocking users and entire communities on this platform….there’s just usually the initial wave of whatever the new spam is until i can get my feed cleaned up again.
Usually tiktok is the most responsive feed out of all the platforms if you scroll away from some specific content asap. It will not try to push it again and again.
People are sharing content from there to other places too.
I saw that shit on LinkedIn.
wAs EiNsTEiN wRoNg?
wAiT TiLL tHe EnD tO FiNd OuT!
tHe AnSWeR WiLL SHOCK YoU!Yeah… unliked and blocked, moving on.
Like the face people make for the thumbnails
Does blocking count as engagement? It would absolutely not surprise me if it does.
Engage once, to never engage again with that particular clickbait tripe channel.
i always interpret “watch to the end” as being a euphemism for “i did not edit this video properly” or “ipad babies are the intended audience of this video”. in any case, i will not be watching that video.
End comes after 10 minutes of video with nothing happening. And when something does happen, it’s half out of frame and completely underwhelming.
Also the video cuts out ten seconds too soon to really rub it in
This applies to shorts that start with “this is crazy” and “this is insane”.
“wanna see something cool?!” No.
Subscribed
I hate the slugs who overlay themselves front-and-center over another video to repeatedly point at whatever they want you to observe while steadily breathing through their mouth.
It’s even worse when they first point to their ear and then their eye to say, “LISHEN 'n LOOKSH, bruh…”
We are truly in a Renaissance of fucking idiocy.
Doubly so when they do a fake laugh any time something is mildly amusing
I often see reels with an annoying guy pretending to be shocked by connections and Easter eggs in Disney films. It cuts back to him every few seconds to show him squinting his eyes inquisitively, making eye contact with the viewer, or rubbing his chin in thought. I hate it so much.
You’re attacking protected commentary! How could they steal views without le reaction overlays?!
I can count on one hand the number of videos I’ve seen where “wait until the end” holds true.
The most recent in years is a video of a dog chewing on something. The owner approaches it and the dog lets go of a hose which then sprays the owner.
Was not expecting that.
Spoiler alert!!!
Post like a bot get blocked like a bot
It says something of the Tik-tok generations attention span if you need to put a “wait till the end” reminder for a 10 second video.
Btw if I see this anywhere its an instant downvote/skip.
It says the same thing “Don’t touch that dial!” said about your generation. Which is nothing: the advertiser is admitting what follows is uninteresting.
except that’s for something like an upcoming 15 minute ad break while the caption is for a 15 second video that’s already started
You’ve got a financial incentive to have someone watch 30 seconds of video - so ofc you use all the skeeziest shit straight out of the chum bucket days of the early internet.
It’s not about attention span: it’s about manipulation and money.
Not only that but this meme is not about TikTok - they don’t have votes, especially not a downvote. This is almost certainly about Reddit: the only major social media site that has downvoting.
It’s like having to wait through an ad on Duolingo except without the reward.
Saw one yesterday here on Lemmy, where the action happened half way through, and nothing happened at the end, which I skipped to.
I immediately skip when I hear/see::
- “Wait for it”
- Overused trending meme music
- Overused trending AI voice
- Useless people pointing
- Useless people in the corner
- Split screen of irrelevant mobile game
- Tells me not to skip
- Anything Stranger Things. I haven’t caught up yet.
So you’re still ensnared by the useless red circle? Thank you, I’ll update my AI content slop machine
Short form video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
It’s because the “algorithm” looks at the average watch time and promotes content that people tend to watch to the end, so they incentivize creating content that has some punchline at the end, or that is just so confusing that you spend the whole time trying to figure out what is going on so you’re less likely to swipe away. If your mind can easily make a judgement about what you’re watching, you’re more likely to decide it’s something you don’t want to watch, and then swipe before the end. This counts against content in the algorithm.
Ok, downvoted.
also “game changer”
Surely you aren’t talking about Game Changer, the best game show, the reason Dropout is worth paying for
