I have something over 8000 #YouTube videos on my Favorites lists. My YT viewing history is ... I don't know how long. Enormous. I've been watching YT since it began.
A standard refrain in YT videos these days is the voice over entreating you to "Like and Subscribe (and click the Bell!). Like and Subscribe. Like and Subscribe.
Last night, for the first time ever in memory, I saw a video that said,
"Please like or dislike, so we can improve."
I stopped dead staring at the screen. Did they really say "like or DISLIKE"? I must have misheard. Nobody mentions the possibility of disliking their video.
I had to check the end of about a dozen #YouTube "reaction" videos of Generation [N] watching Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959) before I found one where they appeared to "get" the gag Hitch used as the very last shot in the film (the train into the tunnel). This is what comes of too much time on smartphones, one suspects.
Yesterday I noted here that the classic film "Alien" had appeared for free (U.S. only) on #YouTube Movies and TV. Today I noticed another classic SF film pop in also free on the same basis: "It! The Terror From Beyond Space" (1958). This is the story of a spaceship on Mars that unknowingly leaves with a creature before heading back to Earth -- a deadly creature that starts picking off the crew one by one ... Sound familiar? In fact, this film is generally considered to be a direct inspiration for "Alien". It's tightly scripted and claustrophobic (also unusually short, only an hour nine minutes), and very much a science fiction classic in its own right. Highly recommended! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhTlu7Ps0k
It's a big compliment to say, it's EXCEEDINGLY similar to OnePlus' most expensive phone. There are a few differences worth examining, and we should finally wrap up that "controversy" over the different camera sensors being used.
The very first #YouTube video was about the lengths of elephant trunks at the San Diego Zoo, posted by one of the YT founders. It has quite a few views and comments now. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
Hoy al fin a las 22:00 emitimos junto a Pepelu (@ElRinconDePepelu en #Twitch y @Clases3D en #YouTube) para acercarnos (y abrazar) un poco más al #autismo, su experiencia y hablar de algunas cosas más, todo preparado con él con mucho respeto, admiración y cariño.
Personally, I find #YouTube Shorts to be utterly useless, and even annoying. You can't seek on them, you have to go through extra steps to even find out how old they are, they repeat endlessly like some sort of nightmare, and they're mostly created for a target I.Q. level of 50. So of course, big money for #Google to be had!
ATACMS Destroy a Russian Training Ground
by #JakeBroe
23:46
ATACMS strikes on Russian positions are now occurring almost daily, with a Russian training ground being struck in #Luhansk with the cluster munitions variant.
Protests in #Georgia continue as the police are becoming more aggressive in intimidating protesters.
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Jake Broe is a US Air Force veteran covering #Russia's war in #Ukraine several times a week since February 2022
Abgesehen davon, dass ich TikTok nicht mag weil ich deren Zweck nicht einsehe, nutzen es sehr viele und vor allem sehr junge Menschen und dies auch kommerziell. Wie eben YouTube & Co. und eigentlich nicht viel anders aber auch als politische Propaganda eine Konkurenz zusätzlich.
🧵 …wie schon oben erwähnt, ist #TikTok alles andere als "nur Unterhaltung". Es bewirkt bewusst eine mentale Sucht bei vielen, doch dies wird als solches nicht verantwortungsvoll eingesehen.
»Tiktoks, Reels und Shorts – Wie hoch ist die Suchtgefahr bei den kurzen Videos?
Tiktoks, #Instagram Reels und #Youtube Shorts ziehen Nutzer:innen regelmäßig in ihren Bann. Als #Sucht zählt das offiziell noch nicht. Ungefährlich sind die Plattformen dadurch aber noch lange nicht.«