the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high

[silasmariner@programming.dev]

Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in cumulonimbus

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

till

If they could spell the word properly, that'd be great.

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

I prefer "til" myself

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

I do this at work, because people gloss over details on really IMO emails that can affect them.

But I say exactly what it is.

Like in Slack, I go "Woah number 6 really said that our healthcare will now be decided by a d20". And then watch the conversation unravel.

[byteonbikes@slrpnk.net]

People are sharing content from there to other places too.

I saw that shit on LinkedIn.

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

You’re attacking protected commentary! How could they steal views without le reaction overlays?!

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

[pyre@lemmy.world]

except that's for something like a 15 minute ad break while the caption is for a 15 second video that's already started

[stalinwolf@lemmy.ca]

I often see reels with an annoying guy pretending to be shocked by connections and Easter eggs in Disney films. It cuts back to him every few seconds to show him squinting his eyes inquisitively, making eye contact with the viewer, or rubbing his chin in thought. I hate it so much.

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I don't understand what those tiktoks have to do with the text.
None of those tiktoks have clickbait titles or tags or anything. They're just silly fun videos.

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

I'm a man of culture, i see Tiktok, I open Tiktok

[zeffsyde@lemmy.world]

To be fair, to a 15 year old 28 is old as hell.

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

It's like having to wait through an ad on Duolingo except without the reward.

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

also "game changer"

[hammocks4all@lemmy.ml]

Like the face people make for the thumbnails

[mr_blott@feddit.uk]

I still have an attention span

[phoneymouse@lemmy.world]

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 you in the algorithm.

[batrickpateman@lemmy.world]

How limb does it have to be to get stuck in water vapor?

[affiliate@lemmy.world]

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.

[thev2@programming.dev]

Whether it's 15 seconds, minutes or hours doesn't matter, because they care about the decision that we make immediately.