Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Bedrockgames]

The casualness of this post is breathtakingly American. Gun safes! And the fact that the average Joe knows their specifications and how hard they are to move. Yowza.

Carry on. This post just smacked me upside the head is all.

Not all Americans have gun safes. I knew a guy who kept his guns in a light and cheap metal cabinet from Walmart.

 

[Willie the Duck]

The casualness of this post is breathtakingly American. Gun safes! And the fact that the average Joe knows their specifications and how hard they are to move. Yowza.

Carry on. This post just smacked me upside the head is all.

To be fair, remove the word gun from each paragraph and leave everything else as-is (and know that 900 pounds is ~400 kg) and the topic works pretty well for anyone. We all know roughly what a safe is, and how hard moving one that mass would be (compared to other potential home furnishings).

Not all Americans have gun safes. I knew a guy who kept his guns in a light and cheap metal cabinet from Walmart.

I know more than a couple nightstand/under pillow type folks (fortunately no children present). To be fair, this is in sobriety circles and some of them were discussing their previous days of being dealers.

 

[Bedrockgames]

To be fair, remove the word gun from each paragraph and leave everything else as-is (and know that 900 pounds is ~400 kg) and the topic works pretty well for anyone. We all know roughly what a safe is, and how hard moving one that mass would be (compared to other potential home furnishings).

Home invasions and break ins were common in the area I lived before my current apartment. Having a super heavy safe for any kind of valuable was pretty smart

 

[TiQuinn]

Pet peeve: Once you create a thread, unless someone is actively threadcrapping, you can't really control the direction people choose to take the conversation and chastising people into following the narrow boundaries that you personally find acceptable for the topic is some BS.

 

[Willie the Duck]

I've noticed that some channels (and podcasts) only have so much content that they can realistically put out that merit both the level of research and discussion versus the pace that YouTube demands creators put stuff out for in order to keep popping up in recommendations. It's no longer enough to just subscribe - I subscribe to channels and then still have new videos get buried unless I actually click their channel. This forces creators to resort to even more of this kind of clickbait-y behavior.

Oh, I totally get it. They are playing to the algorithms, and YouTube's monopoly power + watch-the-world-burn social media behavior + having many content creators by the purse strings is the real culprit here. However, if the content creators are warping their product so much to match it that their content is no longer enjoyable to watch, my attitude is that both they and I are better served by going and doing something else. And that's what happened. If there are member's only/Patreon videos that do not match the YT format, perhaps I'd be better served going there (I certainly wouldn't mind throwing Mr. Reader some money for his efforts -- provided the output is in an entertaining/watchable format).

 

[TiQuinn]

Oh, I totally get it. They are playing to the algorithms, and YouTube's monopoly power + watch-the-world-burn social media behavior + having many content creators by the purse strings is the real culprit here. However, if the content creators are warping their product so much to match it that their content is no longer enjoyable to watch, my attitude is that both they and I are better served by going and doing something else. And that's what happened. If there are member's only/Patreon videos that do not match the YT format, perhaps I'd be better served going there (I certainly wouldn't mind throwing Mr. Reader some money for his efforts -- provided the output is in an entertaining/watchable format).

I kind of wish every now and then we'd get a "Hey guys, I really don't have anything more to say about this, and I don't want to just start dumping crap out here, so don't expect much else from the channel" but reality is they're making money off of it, and that's a tough ask to simply stop.

 

[payn]

Not all Americans have gun safes. I knew a guy who kept his guns in a light and cheap metal cabinet from Walmart.

Now that sounds American.

 

[payn]

Pet peeve: Once you create a thread, unless someone is actively threadcrapping, you can't really control the direction people choose to take the conversation and chastising people into following the narrow boundaries that you personally find acceptable for the topic is some BS.

 

[Umbran]

The unloved season 2. There are whole groups devoted to its appreciation.

Then.. it isn't unloved, is it?

 

[Ryujin]

Oh man, I used to love watching his stuff. Then... not so much. He has just tripled down on all the crass YouTube tactics to get people to click -- hyperbole, all-caps/exclamation points, vague descriptions that require you to click on the video (and watch through the first ad) before you find out what the band and song under discussion even is. After a video titled something like "It's ILLEGAL to change channels when this song is playing" I noped right out for good.

I mean, I get it, attention spans are hard to capture, and if people don't click he doesn't get paid. There's a reason clickbait exists and a reason why even serious new sites have turned their front pages into 'senator thinks THIS is vital for everyone to know (for their very survival)' and you have to click to find out which senator and what this utterly important news is (probably something that technically fits the hyperbolic statement, like how much you need to have saved to afford retirement or the like). I just wish the tactic didn't work, or that video titles that described what you were going to see* got as many clicks, or that word of mouth and quality** meant YouTubers wouldn't feel the need to use such tactics.
*ex. 'The History of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark'
**and, to be clear, Professor of Rock actually puts a lot of research/legwork into their videos.

I definitely agree with that sentiment but because he does still frequently put out stuff that I want to watch, I'll click a few minutes in to see what it's about. Little known fact is that they don't get paid unless you watch past a certain percentage of the video (something more than half, if I remember correctly), so baiting someone to watch who then clicks away, because of clickbait tactics, does nothing for them. Nothing for Youtube, either, if you have a good ad blocker