Further proof that "AI" is not really a thing (as if such proof is necessary)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is streaming on YouTube, it's a legit stream from Shout! Factory.
YT drops ads into the stream, essentially at random, in the middle of scenes. Which is stupid and makes the stream fairly unwatchable.
MST3K was originally a cable TV show and has commercial breaks built into it -- the original bumpers are still in the show. The show also features a flashing light signal that the characters in the show recognize as "commercial sign." It literally signals some of the commercial breaks.
A twelve year old could identify the commercial break points in all 10 seasons of the show in an afternoon.
Instead, YT dropped three random commercial breaks in the middle of scenes in a half hour. As much as I love MST3K, I can't watch that. Total #enshittification. Doesn't help YT, the advertisers or Shout!
If Google had an actual AI that worked, you would think they would apply it here. Seems pretty simple, and surely other old TV shows are streaming on YT as well.
Don’t know if there is much interest in costuming on Mastodon yet, but these are our costumes from the recent Costume Con 42. Tom Servo and Pearl Forrester from #mst3k.
Tom Servo was over 9 feet tall, and I was using a camera and virtual glasses to see where I was going. #costuming#cosplay
Folks in a little under an hour your dash will be overtaken by a flood of movie-related commentary that we like to call #MONSTERDON, your weekly monster movie watch-along party. If that sounds irritating I suggest setting up a block for the hashtag in your Preferences page.
I like to think all the movies that start with IT! belong to the same storyline. It Came From Space is obviously followed by It's in the Air, then It's in the Bag, and then, lastly, It's in the Water. #Monsterdon#MST3k
OKAY I LET THE EVENING GET AWAY FROM ME but it is --yeesh- FIFTEEN MINUTES until #MONSTERDON which this week is PROJECT MOON BASE (1953) WHY AM I YELLING I DON'T KNOW JUST GO WITH IT
Like, I've been watching bad movies most of my life. I've seen bad endings and I've seen weird endings. I've seen endings that made no sense and I've seen endings that were just stupid. But I can't remember seeing an ending that was that creepy, misogynistic, and dismissive all in one go.
Like, that wasn't just a turd of an ending. They built up to that ending. They left it there for a week to mature before they threw it at us. #Monsterdon
This week on #MONSTERDON, your weekly monster movie watch party, we've got PROJECT MOON BASE (1953), a sci fi epic set in the distant future of 1970, where a woman is president! Wacky.
Incidentally this was on #MST3k S1, Kevin Murphy described it as "openly and condescendingly hostile toward women as a gender" So, y'know, fair warning.
Incredible. I mentioned #MST3K in passing in a discussion thread and within moments I got a seemingly unrelated boost from "Tom Servo". The writers in this timeline don't miss a beat
I’ve been going through old drawings and photos with my parents.
Somehow, somewhere around 1980, when I’d be about 7, I drew this picture of Gamera. I remember watching afternoon monster movies with my friends Jason and Mikey up the street. I can’t imagine where else I’d know him from. It would be over a decade before #MST3K.
@rivetgeek Yeah, those things would sometimes emerge from the static (I grew up on an island and cable TV was first unavailable, then expensive for my family's artist budget) and it must have been Channel 64 from Providence or 56 from Boston that ran monster movies. They had all the forbidden pleasures of cartoons and monsters and could only be seen if the weather was right and one of you (but not the other) was touching the antenna.
Rubber monsters take over Mastodon in a watch party known as #MONSTERDON!
This week's movie is 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957), a Harryhausen classic in which a spacecraft crash-lands in the Mediterranean sea bearing a space lizard! Can the terror be stopped!? Or are Earth's crickets DOOMED?
It is approximately 1 hour until #MONSTERDON, the Sunday night watch party featuring goofy monster movies! This week, a classic of Rubber Lizard Cinema, GORGO! It's time to watch the British try their hands at iguanas who hate major metropolitan areas!
I remember one criticism of the American Godzilla was that the US military actually hurt Godzilla in that film. Like Americans can't imagine their military LOSING an engagement. I feel like this movie is showing the English can't imagine not being able to put something in a circus. #Monsterdon