It's bizarre to me how shallow it stays and how do much of the content just tries to trick the consumer. On Instagram I constantly see travel photos and clips with no indication of where the location is. Videos of weird stuff happening sand if you read comments, you learn it's fake or important context that makes it interesting kiss omitted. How does anyone consume this without getting annoyed about these unanswered, basic questions and keep consuming it after you learn it's all fake?
Re:Dishwasher Salmon
by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:27PM
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My theory is a huge portion of those watching are age 5-12.
Her channel was originally a high quality baking channel, but then she did a video titled "Is So Yummy the worst channel on YouTube?" or something like that. It basically highlighted how all these "hands and pans" content farms just have these sped up, interesting to look at videos, but their actual "recipes" were total nonsense. Most importantly, she highlighted how these channels were basically killing the view counts of real baker's on YouTube. I'm sure she saw that these debunking videos were here most popular ones (nothing addicts like outrage) and she leaned hard into it.
The sad corollary is that her original premise was so right - so many video algorithms end up just promoting these flashy, "bright colors and good music" type of videos. People always say "TikTok is so addictive", but I find it addictive the way a room full of cotton candy is addictive to a 3 year old. I can hardly stand modern content sites (of lots of different variants) because it's the mental equivalent of empty carbs.