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I immediately skip when I hear/see::
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.
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.
Step 1: block archiebot
Step 2: enjoy about 75% reduced spam
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
Post like a bot get blocked like a bot
This Man Took A Normal Photo Of His Wife But Realised Something Was Very Wrong
Answer In Link Below 👇👇👇
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Celebrity Colin Ferrel was seen today with ex-wife while wearing a brown coat
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Continue reading here
TLDR(after clicking through 21 slides that each load a new website): She had a benign mole on her shoulder.
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Yeah... unliked and blocked, moving on.
Like the face people make for the thumbnails
This face almost made me downvote you.
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.
This applies to shorts that start with "this is crazy" and "this is insane".
It's like having to wait through an ad on Duolingo except without the reward.
Reminds me of a teacher that kept telling us about the intended syllabus every day. But complaining that he had to remove stuff because there was not enough time for everything, while wasting half an hour everyday instead of going for what was possible.
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 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.
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.
Lol my mind went straight to thinking this was some type of apocalypse trend.
When a "Shorts" starts with Watch Till the end for "X" & spouts a big load of Bull throughout the start, yeah it's Clickbait
I've been blissfully unaware of this trend, because I'm not on any other social media! I get that posting this is a bit of smug self-satisfaction, which nobody likes, but I feel strongly that corporate social media is a scourge, and that far too many people farm out their critical thinking to random "content creators." Black-box content algorithms are not doing you any favors, and they will affect your thinking if you subject yourself to them.
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.
Saw one yesterday here on Lemmy, where the action happened half way through, and nothing happened at the end, which I skipped to.