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363 sats \ 1 reply \ @owleyedapprentice 27 Oct 2023
I once read (in a book called "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten) that an entertainer's ultimate goal is provide the pathway for the listener/consumer to "enter into attainment".
What "attainment" means can be rather subjective, but ultimately, it should inspire and light up the brain a motivating way. Today's content creators seem to not have that objective in mind at all, which in a way, makes it much easier to choose who to follow (or not follow).
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 27 Oct 2023
Great book!
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 27 Oct 2023
I love Mr Beast as a person, but I cringe a little every time I hear him in an interview where he talks about making the "best" videos when it's all about engagement in a low attention span economy.
Too easy to get audience captured by the algorithms unfortunately, and who even knows what growing percentage of your engagement is bots.
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198 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 27 Oct 2023
That's interesting because I don't hear it that way when he says it. I hear it as, "I figured this out ... after not getting it for a long time." I think I maybe trust the algorithm more than I deserve to, but I also try to account for video internet demographics being skewed young.
His videos are entertaining even if I'd agree they aren't worth measuring in terms of good or bad too. Most of them are kind of compressed hero's journeys. They're basically youtube's version of a game-prize show. Is CBS's Survivor, the "best" tv show? Nah, but people enjoy watching it so much It's had nearly 50 seasons.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Oct 2023
I actually watch most of his stuff to support him because he seems like a good person who spends most of his profits towards good causes.
But a lot of it his strategy seems to optimize towards not having a single second of downtime where a viewer might lose interest, including immediately starting the video at 100 mph to maximize retention. But I guess that's what you have to do to compete with tiktok attention spans.
TLDR (getting old lol)
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @hn OP 27 Oct 2023
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @satoshi_in_the_classroom 27 Oct 2023
TLDR but yes. Much regurgitated. Much clickbait. Much attention seeking with little substance.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 28 Oct 2023
I guess for most people who don't pay for blue checks and even some who do, it's just screaming into the void, and if you're not generating outrage of some kind you won't be fed into the circle jerk
My thing is here okay you want attention, you want to monetize it, and then what? Whats the real end goal here? What's the purpose?
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