Writer insight : if people start pulling their phone when they should be watching your movie, it means your movie is shit, not that it should be made even sloppier. Watered down shit is still a shit cocktail.
This is what kills any articles on the web. The first three paragraphs repeat the question you’re looking to get answered and the last paragraph vaguely answers it.
I feel like an old person now but I’ve started watching movies from the 90s/2000s and I can’t believe how much worse movies have become over the years.
SEO was a mistake.
SEO was inevitable. That what is optimal to be seen in a search is not what is most useful for the end user is a failure of search engine algorithms to properly penalize that shit.
Also the more repetition the more room on the page for ad spots. Same reason so many Youtubers restate the same shit almost verbatim over and over and over; it pads the video so Youtube can cram in more ad spots.
There are some standout exceptions to that trend but it is a depressing trajectory for sure
Can’t believe how prescient this movie was. We’re on our way!
Go away! Bait’n!
XD
Ow my balls would be a step up.
Wassat?
Or we are on our phones because the movies repeat their themes over and over and over again
i dunno, most people i see watch netflix seem to use it as just another mode of stimulus because they need to always be completely inundated with flashing screens at all times to feel calm
I feel like it’s both, but it also comes down to if I care enough to skip through the rehash.
I think Netflix manufactured this problem first. Originally they were going for volume so they added a lot of padding to their og shows. To the point I stopped watching (torrenting) any Netflix originals. So people got in the habit of doing other stuff while waiting for the plot to start moving again. Now they claim that their shows are meant for second screens. Motherfucker: we are in the golden age of TV, so there’s plenty of engaging content being produced. Marvelous Mrs. Maisle is so fast paced and brilliant I never felt the need to pick up my phone.
Marvelous was great. Always attentive to that show.
It’s the big tech social media disease.
Everyone, frigging everyone who steps away from fb/insta/twittler/yt/tiktok/… says the same “holy shit my mind is so peaceful all of a sudden.” And somehow it’s not substantially part of the daily discourse. Somehow between that and EVERYTHING else these mfrs are responsible for (protecting pedos, encouraging insurrections, …) just flies.
It’s a disease, an addiction, a plague and we gotta start naming it as such. Talk to your loved ones and carefully try to get them off that shit.
I don’t use FB, Instagram, X, or TikTok, but on YT, the last few things I watched was a video by ElectroBoom on electric showerheads, some other video about how ancient Egypt made things so flat, a couple of episodes of the 50s TV show The Lone Ranger, and a video about the Eiffel Tower.
If you’re watching things on YT that’s making your mind unpeaceful, watch something else. Getting off of YT isn’t going to help. No matter where you or your loved ones go, there they are.
Does that include Lemmy?
You tell me:
-are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?
-is the public on lemmy tolerant of sexoffenders? Nazis?
-ads? (Yes, I initially misspelled it as “adds” this guy right here)
-do you have superfluous bs following you around?
I think not.
You forgot:
- Is an algorithm shoving political divisive rage bait down your throat?
But thanks for listing why I like it here
I think if no public bathrooms are available, then we should be allowed to urinate in public.
Regarding adds: I guess if you fight one lemmy user, others will spawn and come to help. So I would say yes, there are adds
So people having discourse equals advertising?
Nah, they’re making a joke from the misspelling.
add: To perform addition. Or a mob joining an ongoing fight in a game.
ad: An advertisement.
Well looks like I’ll be having an omelette tomorrow morning on account of the egg on my face. 🤣
Thank you, should have made that clear.
-are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?
No, but I don’t get that elsewhere either. You may need to update your adblocker. Or install more than one (one for web stuff and sponsorblock to get YTers doing their own ad reads).
I think we define the list differently.
There is a difference between let’s say ads and shorts (which are indeed blockable to a certain level). But then there’s the brainrot. Which to me envelopes a bigger problem.
On fb for example to me this was promotion of influencers, meme pages, … patronising stuff that annoys me endlessly.
I don’t think you can steer Facebook in a way that they don’t display certain content you don’t want. In fact I’ve has the opposite happen a few times.
“Oh you’re trying to tell the algo you want less of this content? How about some more, twice as much?”.
At that point I’m done with the platform, no thx. And just in general, I’m throwing away as much big tech accounts as I can and it feels like a relief, good riddance.
Lemmy/Piefed is an echo chamber, and has some structural issues like Reddit. But there’s no algo, no advertising, nor constant phone notifications.
And, uh, no billionaires warping “open” discourse.
To me, it’s a time black hole, worse than old forums. But it’s not nearly as bad as (say) Discord or anything Facebook owned.
nor constant phone notifications.
Until emails broke on our instance I used to get email notifications for replies, which would send a notification to my phone, which would get forwarded to my smart watch.
So, uh, yeah.
It can. Depends on how you use it. Wear gloves and goggles when handling .ml and political memes on .world and such.
Bad movies need to do this. You know, the average movie Netflix signs off on.
You could absolutely do it in a funny way like Kronk (Emperors New Groove) or Luis (Ant-Man).
Netflix movies are pretty crap for doing these because we ourselves are to blame. I admit I have done this couple of times while watching movie or TV at home.
Now I’m curious, am I checking my phone after they’ve repeated the same thing 3 or 4 times and now I’m bored / annoyed?
Good thing we canceled our Netflix subscription last year when Trump threatened to invade our country the first time.
Even greater that now that he is threatening to do it again, and seemingly is more serious about it, we are one year into being back on physical media and we fucking love it. Dvds and blurays are so much better than shitflix.
The amount of reciprocal effort art is socially allowed to demand from the audience changes. The art form gets refined and people respect that and are willing to invest more attention, then at some point it’s opera and nobody goes because it requires too much attention and respect. Netflix might suck but on the other hand Christopher Nolan is making movies with inaudible dialogue and Game of Thrones has invisible fight scenes because they got out of hand with it and think they can demand you only watch their thing alone in a soundproof HDR screening room.
I wasn’t looking at my phone when I watched that cop movie they made. I was lifting weights and hemming my sweatpants.
I’ve seen quite a lot recently saying a particularly distracting aspect of phones isn’t that they’re a screen and a visual stimulus, but a tool and a haptic stimulus.
An increasingly popular way to combat checking your phone while watching TV is to busy your hands with something. If this works and is widely adopted, we won’t need shows to have second-screen writing repetition; our brains tell our hands to use the tool, and it just so happens that the tool is full of text and speech and occupies the language center of our brains, meaning we stop listening to the show.
Also, a whole separate thing I often think about, before 2010, there were very few high budget TV shows. TV was made on a much smaller budget than film, and the writing often took a hit too, and that was just the reality of watching TV. They were also designed to hook people who were clicking around channels with lots of recaps and narrative refreshers, for people tuning in halfway through, this is like the second-screen writing issues we complain about now on steroids, straight to TV movies were also terrible for this.
Movies that were designed for Cinema revenue weren’t impacted by this or course, but even DVD revenue movies often have simpler plots and reiterate their narratives for people who are half watching while chatting or stoned or whatever.
netflix should just buy the entire back catalogue of The Archers and be done with it.
I like when Matt Damon restates his name three or four times in the dialogue
Blame his agent for getting him a pokemon gig as a pokemon
Meatt daemon
