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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I immediately skip when I hear/see::

  1. "Wait for it"
  2. Overused trending meme music
  3. Overused trending AI voice
  4. Useless people pointing
  5. Useless people in the corner
  6. Split screen of irrelevant mobile game
  7. Tells me not to skip
  8. Anything Stranger Things. I haven't caught up yet.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

So you're still ensnared by the useless red circle? Thank you, I'll update my AI content slop machine

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago

Short form video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

End comes after 10 minutes of video with nothing happening. And when something does happen, it's half out of frame and completely underwhelming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Also the video cuts out ten seconds too soon to really rub it in

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Post like a bot get blocked like a bot

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 day ago (23 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

As it should be

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kinda your own fault for being on Tiktok in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (7 children)

There’s been a recent flood of it here, though. A new (i think) page titled ‘gifs’ started flooding my All feed and pretty much every post is a “watch till the end” for a 10sec clip…🙄

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Oh yeah, im no stranger to blocking users and entire communities on this platform….there’s just usually the initial wave of whatever the new spam is until i can get my feed cleaned up again.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Step 1: block archiebot

Step 2: enjoy about 75% reduced spam

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Lol my mind went straight to thinking this was some type of apocalypse trend.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

Answer In Link Below 👇👇👇

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

A man took a nor

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[Large Ad]

[Large Ad]

[Can't tell if this is a piece of a new article or a continuation of the current one]

Man was take picture of lady and wowzah did he see

[Another Ad]

[Large Scrolling Ad]

something on her that was crazy

and he look at picture closely t

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get a be

t

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er

[Huge Ad that Breaks the Page's Format]

[Small Ad]

Celebrity Colin Ferrel was seen today with ex-wife while wearing a brown coat

[Large Ad]

Continue reading here

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

When you visit the same page with µBo:

A man took a nor

m

a

[Giant Ass Blank Space]

[Can’t tell if this is a piece of a new article or a continuation of the current one]

Man was take picture of lady and wowzah did he see

[Colossal Blank Space]

something on her that was crazy

and he look at picture closely t

o

get a be

t

t

er

[Medium Ass Blank Space]

Celebrity Colin Ferrel was seen today with ex-wife while wearing a brown coat

[Large Ass Blank Space]

Continue reading here

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

wAs EiNsTEiN wRoNg?
wAiT TiLL tHe EnD tO FiNd OuT!
tHe AnSWeR WiLL SHOCK YoU!

Yeah... unliked and blocked, moving on.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like the face people make for the thumbnails

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

This face almost made me downvote you.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

When a "Shorts" starts with Watch Till the end for "X" & spouts a big load of Bull throughout the start, yeah it's Clickbait

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This applies to shorts that start with "this is crazy" and "this is insane".

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

And the constant lamenting on how we're behind the syllabus and how we need to move on, like it's a race and not an educational process.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I hate the slugs 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.."

We are truly in a Renaissance of fucking idiocy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doubly so when they do a fake laugh any time something is mildly amusing

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've been blissfully unaware of this trend, because I'm not on any other social media! I get that posting this is a bit of smug self-satisfaction, which nobody likes, but I feel strongly that corporate social media is a scourge, and that far too many people farm out their critical thinking to random "content creators." Black-box content algorithms are not doing you any favors, and they will affect your thinking if you subject yourself to them.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It says the same thing "Don't touch that dial!" said about your generation. Which is nothing: the advertiser is admitting what follows is uninteresting.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 content in the algorithm.

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