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

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'Let me explain' is one for me as well.

Engywuck

By the same logic, one should downvote any link to YT videos (which is what I do anyway).

kubica

Reminds me of a teacher that kept telling us about the intended syllabus every day. But complaining that he had to remove stuff because there was not enough time for everything, while wasting half an hour everyday instead of going for what was possible.

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Hehe yep I got to hear many of those rants too. Its like, uhh great, shall we use a magic science machine to artificially stretch the year out or what.. like what do you want us to do about it

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Most of those are reposted by the same account. You just need to ban a few accounts and the feed is clean again.

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They do this because it works on many people.

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If you watch the first hour of this slop you'll be numb and enjoy the next 5 hours.

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create account
use AI or automated process to post tons of slop videos
stupid people like, comment or share the video
account's engagement goes up
now transition it into advertising
sell it to a company. "Look, this account has 100k followers. How's $10,000 sound?"

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it's so easy to create these types of accounts and flood them with low-effort AI slop that blocking one or two accounts never did it for me. regardless of the platform (tiktok, facebook, instagram, any other social media, including some of your revered FOSS platforms) it's easy to bypass humanity filters with very little effort and fill the account with garbage. all of these platforms behave the same way: if outside accounts engage with it, it becomes more valuable. that's why there are so many of these, and why "just banning" a few of them won't solve it

Miles O'Brien

Step 1: block archiebot

Step 2: enjoy about 75% reduced spam

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I'm a simple man, I see TikTok I dislike.

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I can count on one hand the number of videos I've seen where "wait until the end" holds true.

The most recent in years is a video of a dog chewing on something. The owner approaches it and the dog lets go of a hose which then sprays the owner.

Was not expecting that.

Lad

This Man Took A Normal Photo Of His Wife But Realised Something Was Very Wrong

Answer In Link Below

TLDR(after clicking through 21 slides that each load a new website): She had a benign mole on her shoulder.

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Good thing it doesn't work here.

But it's a known way to make money on the other site.

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As it should be

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It says something of the Tik-tok generations attention span if you need to put a "wait till the end" reminder for a 10 second video.

Btw if I see this anywhere its an instant downvote/skip.

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I hate the fuckheads who overlay themselves front-and-center over another video to repeatedly point at whatever they want you to observe while steadily breathing through their mouth.

It's even worse when they first point to their ear and then their eye to say, "LISHEN 'n LOOKSH, bruh.."

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because there's only a few thousand users here.

that's why it isn't commonplace; there's no money in it. slop companies make more money on tiktok, facebook and other popular platforms...

...but Lemmy is not free from abuse of this type. If the fediverse was more popular it would start to see more slop content.

that's my point. it does work here, because the same vulnerabilities exist, but isn't common because it's not as profitable as shitting in tiktok or facebook.

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True, but that third panel kinda looks like one of those videos where they make their kitty pop and lock and those are kind of adorable.