TikTok Has Ruined Content Creation | EFAP Highlight
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The rise of TikTok has shown the decimated attention spans of the people who engage with its abysmal content stream.
ORIGINAL VIDEO: • EFAP #283 - Multimedia...
WATCH EFAP!
- EFAP Main Channel: / @everyframeapause
- EFAP Audio Version: / user-624219017
HOSTS’ CHANNELS
- MauLer’s Channel: / @mauleryt
- Fringy’s Channel: / @fringy
- Rags’ Channel: / @rags
COMMUNITY
- MauLer Subreddit: / mauler EFAP
- EFAP Discord: discordapp.com...
- Fan Site: www.efap.me/
MERCH & DONATIONS
- MauLer’s Patreon: www.patreon.co...
- MauLer’s Subscribestar: www.subscribes...
- MauLer’s Merch Store: maulers-store....
- Rags’ Patreon: / yourpalrags
- Rags’ Subscribestar: www.subscribes...
OUTRO MUSIC: “Last Stop” by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
I'm TikTok's main target audience...I want the app destroyed. I hate short form content, it makes me feel stupid.
Car-a-mell
Same here, a lot of the time I feel genuinely embarrassed to be a part of the generation that produces this sludge
@@Mid-Tier-Man9256 We'll be sure to keep clowning where we have to for certain people to snap out of it.
Lame. The app isn’t bad
Shorts that are supposed to be like comedy skits (even if I think they're not funny) or just clips from podcasts and stuff to showcase content are fine, but so much of it is designed to either be addicting to children or just spread false or incomplete information that it's not worth engaging with it. I almost miss the days where let's play content was the content people hated for how prolific and artificial it was and cringe personalities like Fred and RWJ were so prevalent because this kind of nu-content is abysmal
The perfect cure for shortening attention spans is watching a mauler video
Just one? Nah, gotta watch one of his series!
Don’t worry, Mauler is working on another long man about the Fallout TV show for us!
ONE?
@@0That_Guy0 I rewatch the GoT ones almost monthly. Sometimes more!
The anti TikTok
The main reason tiktok sucks is because everyone there creates content not because of some creative vision, but with a purpose of getting famous and/or becoming an influencer. It's a cesspool of narcissism.
And the content in said videos is the most inane, vapid, pointless stuff you'll ever see. It's infected RUclips as well in the form of Shorts- I'll watch one only to ask myself, "Why on earth would someone post this? What was the point of this video?"
I hope the next part in MauLer’s TFA review has random LEGO Star Wars gameplay on the bottom half of the screen at all times
That would be peak fire! Mauler would be so back!
That would be PERFECT
...
For GDELB : , )
Tmple Run
Every word needs to be shown on screen one at a time so I never stop looking at the video or I might miss something
@@alienmorality imagine watching a whole season of Family Guy while watching the review lol
My younger brother watches shit in this format all the time on youtube shorts. I also saw him throw a tantrum the other day after being told he would have to spend longer than 15 minutes on his math homework. The internet ruining kids' attention spans is a very real problem
I'm in my early 20s, I think a lot of it started with the rise of smart phones/other smart electronics, social media, along with parents giving their children these devices (with unrestricted access to the internet) at such young ages (cause they are either to lazy or too busy to tend to their own children). The worst part is we already seeing the affects of that on both late Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and it's only bound to get worse in the coming decades when they eventually enter the work world.
Implying that children were overjoyed with math homework before tictoc became a thing?
A satirical sketch being picked up as fuel for an “alpha male grindset” TikTok is so saturated in irony. This is beyond the rock bottom of being terminally online - we’ve gone down another layer entirely
I loved the sigma male grindset memes when they were at the peak of their popularity. My favourites are still the top gear ones. Especially the one with Jeremy Clarkson asking the panel of sharks if they could get children to work in a factory, because that'd be brilliant.
Just you wait. We're gonna go through more and more layers as the years go by. People are gonna look back on the 2020s as ”the good old days” when people weren't insane lol
What makes you so sure the joke isnt on you?
@@TS-qr3rk Because the joke is thoroughly on anyone who watched it and believed it was real. Easy
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese Umm that IS the joke being on you. Strange response.
I recently learned that some people have no (or very minimal) internal monologue, and that legitimately scares me
Technically "inner speech" is only found in 25% of the population. That accounts for a separate "audible" voice in your head. (Not to be confused with audio hallucinations). While some people can mull over ideas in their head, not everyone has the "voice" that some people do. Some people can't even think in pictures or visualize anything significant in their heads. It's all just "concepts". They aren't dumb by any means, they just cant picture stuff.
It's basically the sign of being sapient. I think, therefore I am. What are you, if you do not think?
I would say be careful in how you phrase or think about that. There are a lot of people who do not have a VERBAL internal monologue, but they might be hungry and think about food they want to eat, or think about stopping what they’re doing and getting food. They don’t need to think the words ‘I’m hungey, I need food’ but they still have that thought process happening.
A lot of people think in a combination of memory, images scents and complex ideas as opposed to ‘verbalized’ thought processes
I remember this being shared to me with the watermark cropped out and additional text added to advertise this as serious, I very confused for a while until I eventually dug to the source.
TikTok can be a real wasteland at times
Was not expecting to see you here
It's at times like these where I genuinely believe that Ray Bradbury was either a prophet or a time-traveller. So much of what he has described in Fahrenheit 451 can be found almost everywhere.
Orwell, too. Would you like to buy this camera/audio device and keep it on you at all times?
When the dystopian novels have become reality, at what point to we just concede that we live in a dystopia?
Wall-sized interactive tvs where people spend hours exchanging platitudes with characters that may or may not even be real people. Hah, that'll never hap- wait...
@@harbl99 You forgot the "shells" that people put into their ears to listen to music ot conversations.
Bradbury was more right than we could ever afford him to be...
I'm sorry, can you re-edit this video to have minecraft parkour under it along with AI transcripted text so I can pay attention?
Ha!
Do it Wolf!
I request Dead by Daylight with the Hillbilly and Trapper. Those are funny as hell to observe. When you are kinda off doing something else.
Maybe some football highlights playing on the top half
"[THIS GUY AND HIS PET DOG AND BIRD ARE DOING A PODCAST, WHEN SUDDENLY...]"
in a form of Shorts
To add to what Fringy noted about lessening attention spans. There has been tons of conversation around TikTok brain, a phenomenon where people are noticing their attention span, cognitive abilities, and memory have been significantly reduced due to the overuse of short form social media. Many of the stories I came across were quite shocking - young people not able to remember simple things, feeling anxious if not being fed constant entertainment, and getting bored of in person conversions within second of engaging in them. Perusing those discussions boards made it clear to me that there really are real and serious consequences to the abuse of social media sites like TikTok.
China, the makers of it, banned its use in country for a reason, same with pushing it out everywhere else.
There have been plenty of conversations because it's an easy scapegoat, but i haven't seen any research proving that idea so far. It seems to be that other outside sources are causing issues and technology just makes it easier to see them.
The site "Literally Unbelievable" is basically a database of reactions of people who think Onion stories are real
In the future, 90% of the pixels in any content will be filled with ads
Like a stock car racer's jumpsuit
I genuinely cannot watch videos like this (the one they're talking about, I'm always up for EFAP). The clip playing, the Minecraft parkour, the constant flashing text, it all just gives me sensory overload. I can't look at them for more than a few seconds.
There have been many times where I see a TikTok because someone is trying to show me how funny it is, then the video ends and they're looking at me like "😂😳" without me even catching that there was a joke in the video.
I genuinely do not understand the TikTok culture, the spastic videos or it's jokes and I grew up with RUclips poops. Anything that is good are just stolen without credit or they were already established content creators who were looking to expand their audience. I'm glad that I've never downloaded and fell into the TikTok hole.
YTP was a level of stupidity that somehow required more thought than Tiktok. Like it was so stupid it required you to have an IQ of at least 7 to suss out why it's even funny.
Real
I don't even look at memes anymore because they're just not funny, most of them is "haha random loud noises" or "lol someone fell over!", I'll even rarely watch a "try not to laugh" compilation and genuinely not laugh once and I'm not exactly stoic.
They're not funny, they're just confusing, and I firmly believe that the "jokes" are that your brain gets overstimulated with all the loud noises and fast forwarded visuals that you laugh by default just to cope with the confusion. But that's not my initial reaction to confusion so it doesn't work on me.
Peak Mauler. Takes a 45 second clip and farms 20 minutes of engagment out of it.
This is why I am Subscribed!
He VADER'D
DARTH VADER?
I KNOW WHO THAT IS!!!
It's red! It's RED!
Let's GOOOOOOOOOO
I CLAPPED
Everyday, I wake up and watch more IRL clips of “Idiocracy”.
"Look at these idjets!" -- Joey B. Toonz, a connoisseur of Tik-tok and Insta madness
1. The Onion has been going downhill for many years but get ready for the decline to accelerate- it was recently purchased by a group that includes NBC's former "misinformation" expert, who despite his title was less of an opponent and more of a proponent of misinfo. So far, the early returns are more preachy than satirical.
2. I imagine the Minecraft content was there for "transformative" purposes to avoid a copyright strike from just reposting the old Onion content.
Vine destroyed our attention spans
Glad others hate vine still
@@Ayahuasca98 "I hated Tik-tok back when it was called Vine." There's a t-shirt design.
Which is owned by Elon. I knew Musk was somehow behind this!
My biggest peave is these AI movie summaries. Literally makes my brain melt out of my ears.
Sigma male grindset:
Traffic women, goon to cartoon characters with no sex appeal, and repress your emotions until they come out sideways
sent my brother this, this was his response "So unfortunately, they are out of the information loop. This video they are talking about, the one from tiktok, is a repost video. The way you get around repost takedowns is half your video be different enough from the original or you're less likely to lose the view counts. So The music overlay, to text, the lowering of the speaker's voice, and the Minecraft parkour make it different enough where The tick tock algorithm will not take the video down. if there is a right to ownership of the original content request takedown Don't know people can get around it saying it's just different enough. Is away spammers are gaming the system in order to generate revenue."
I think your brother is wrong. I think this video clip is in on the joke and purposely being absurd.
This reminds me of that Tumblr post of a picture of the Joker from Dark Knight without his makeup hiding in a group of policemen. Someone comments that it was really disrespectful to call him Joker and the man was probably wounded in combat and was depressed by it. Multiple people agreed with it until someone clarified that it was not in fact a real person, just something someone noticed in a film.
I get all my news from Onion-span 2
And sports on ESPN 8 The Ocho
The half and half video is for tik-tok watchers, because a simple video of someone talking isn't enough to keep them watching a 30-second video, so they have a second video of constant action going on below it to keep eye-balls on the video.
20:03 I genuinely hope Fringy is wrong about that becoming a normalized tactic. I still am adding to that list of anti-scam anti-brain-rot education/clips/articles for when my kid has to use the internet not too long from now. Don't want her to end up how I almost did; a boiled frog.
Hey the mass email 5$ thing worked for some people who got in early.
But yeah, unsupervised for kids is just asking for social contagions. At least our generation had to be bribed with free demos for games or something and it was just people who wanted to sell a good product.
Now it's people who want to tell you how and what to think.
@@AKABattousai Hence why I have no hatred for anyone...except confirmed pedos
Rags sounds really different. If he didn't have his pfp I wouldn't have known it was him.
He’s using a trash headset mic or something
@@carbonmonoxide5052 No they replaced the actor.
@@barbute3684hard to believe EFAP went woke and character assassinated rag's character, made his mic soy
@@ghoulsome9483 Ye it's tragic
I wish the Tiktok ban would do more
An interesting note is to consider the little light snake that slides around the border of the stream elements. I’ve spent a lot of time following that little snake with my eyes while looking over at my second monitor similarly to the minecraft footage. This is a comparison not an equation clearly there are orders of magnitude in stimulation.
I'm sort of with Fringy on this issue. If I'm doing something that doesn't require attention, I can do a podcast as "second monitor" content. Think of doing dishes. Mowing the grass. You know, mindless tasks.
I cannot follow a podcast and truly play a game. Having to pay attention to the game makes me miss things people are saying.
I'm not with Rag's comparisson about being in a conversation. A conversation automatically demands attention because you're supposed to respond. It has interaction. You don't need to constantly pay visual attention to people because your mind is on what people are saying. But a podcast doesn't involve me. Just tuning out something you're only paying passive attention to happens automatically when you also have something you're paying active attention to. Say moving from a random encounter in Dsrk Souls to a boss fight. I could lusten to EFAP during random encounters. But not during boss fights.
I do that too.
Anytime i think of attention spans, I'm reminded of the Baseketball scene where Ted Denslow says "kids nowadays have an attention span of NANO SECONDS."
It's not "what the fuck happened to youtube", it's "what the fuck happened to mankind"
At this point its not going to be wars that will destroy my generation or generations in general, nor famines, nor plagues or whatever else, its gonna be the damn internet and all the stuff in it, a big portion of us are legitimately doomed to just be slightly inferior because we allowed ourselves to make our attention spams shit, our social skills shit, our way of thinking shit and the way we approach other opinions shit.
It would still be all those things that will destroy it then (if it should happen), you would just be unprepared and unable to Deal with it as well.
🤔Layers of stupidity that shouldn't be studied but expunged.
"I do not regret what I did, only that it was necessary." -- Inquisitor
Unfortunately the good can't
outweigh the bad for me, tiktok can burn.
Mind control doesn't exis...
I'm Gen-Zer in my early 20s and I absolutely loath short form content or anything in a stupid tiktok style format. To me it comes off as unnerving and sterilized, like it was manufactured by a machine (and lets be honest most of it is). Overall, I much prefer long form content; though i have no idea how people can watch that stuff for hours on end, without feeling stupid after.
Zoomers were a mistake :P
We're doomed
It seems we were made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
Regarding the discussion of how many people have it "on their second monitor" or listening to it in the background, the focus they can give to it really depends on the primary activity. I can sew, cook, play warframe, heal 4man content in FF14, or do jobs that are repetitive perfectly fine while not missing anything that's being said. Only have to drop focus when a decision that's not routine has to be made.
7:14 // Hard Disagree with Jimmy Carr RE: short attn. spans for "bad" content and longer attn. spans for good content. How many people do you know, have you seen, that can spend more than One Minute doing nothing, before looking down on their phones? How many people are willing or ABLE to hold long conversations? How many people can tell you what was discussed in said conversation, or hold ANY idea in their head while focusing elsewhere?
- there are just countless examples of how people are unable to focus, unable to focus WELL, how people use their phones, ie randomly clicking around without absorbing a single thing, just in every aspect of life: Short attention spans, ZERO knowledge of any history, zero skepticism, CULTURAL BLINDNESS AND REJECTION OF INTELLIGENCE, lack of intellectual morality, etc, etc, F-ing et cetera
This is probably going to buried, but the reason those videos have stuff like that isnt to retain views, its because theyre stealing stuff that isnt theres and that allows them to bypass filters.
All ads nowadays pretty much follow the same format
I was writing out a rant about how the person who posted it didn't create any of this and is just using it to farm views with bare minimum effort, but then Mauler covered it.
You remember that one time Internet Historian used a clip from some movie of a cruise liner crash and put "there's no footage of this so here's this picture from this movie" and tons of reactors completely missed it? Including Xqc I'm pretty sure.
I've never seen someone take a tiktok and make a 20 min video about it. The long man strikes again
It's the empty calories of media. It's honestly kinda gross and leaves you feeling worse than you started, but it feels kinda good while you are eating.
Over time, you find yourself deficient in nutrients but 80 lbs heavier with calories you'll never burn.
I remember when my aunt showed my brother of a supposedly funny video on tiktok and I just sat there cringing myself
Something must have happened to attention spans overall, if not at least the constant need for dopamine. The amount of restless and easily distracted people (especially young adults, teenagers and kids) seem to have increased a lot.
Maybe it's just my personal experience, 'cause I don't have numbers to back it up, but something really seems to have happened with a lot of people's ability to focus on things that aren't giving near-constant gratification.
I don't think people realize how easy it is to spread propaganda and misinformation on that app, especially since it's format became so popular almost every other social media platform has picked up on it.
To go with their discussion on listening and keeping yourself occupied otherwise, I've gotten to the point where the majority of videos I watch are thankfully able to just listen to them. A lot I do at work, or if I'm playing a game I've played, or side quests. When I reach story moments I pause the video.
I feel called out, I had this video in miniplayer while building my dwarven stronghold in Minecraft
It's actually not that far off from people that take movie scenes and quotes as inspiration for real life.
7:10 I feel personally attacked.
I remember seeing the tiktok-ized version and thinking "wait, this isnt real"
This really feels like my parents finding out tiktok. Welcome in, it’s broken and getting worse 😂
Even a parody is being milked by alpha male cringe. Even they know zoomers don’t know what the onion is!
Reality Is officially over now
2+2 Is 5
Fish can fly
I am my own Parents
Ketchup Is an Instrument
Embrace the chaos
RUclips should let me turn off RUclips shorts, it never feels like I've learned anything or spent my time well, it's just a time suck
I turned this on before taking a poo. I definitely did not give it 100% of my attention, because I needed to remember to use toilet paper for every wipe.
Mauler is natures overcorrection and doubles the average content length on the internet.
I think being able to focus on something is more depending on who you are. Like with EFAP I’ll put it on while I’m at work. However, I have a hard time, if I’m at home, being able to focus on just one thing in general. It’s why I don’t watch much TV anymore unless I’m REALLY invested in it and most of it is crap these days so i end up just playing my guitar or video games which keeps my mind occupied enough with different things. TikTok and social media has just diluted the senses and people’s taste in general, just look at Disney Star Wars lol
Or like the screaming bird in Citizen Kane when it screamed real loud so that the audience can’t wake up and it’s attentive.
Damn you CERN!!
Damn a steins gate reference
EFAP is first monitor content.
Audible wave-particle duality
Tbh, everytime i see unrelated gameplay (pretty common) I just assume it's because the original content lacks visuals or to trick copyright bots. I don't think too much of it.
You don't think too much indeed
@@Ron_Jambo_ it just means I ignore it, while "smart" people like you clearly spend their time watching random gameplay thinking it has meaning...
@@Denien82 Smart people never used TikTok nor wasted time with that kind of video for children with ADHD.
Hope you'll get the help you need , until then keep not thinking, like the average american you probably are.
@@Denien82 That is because "smart" people assume if the creator put something into their video that it was done with a reason and intent. If that reason is just to fill the screen with something to keep your attention, then what is the point in watching the video as opposed to listening to it?
@@Denien82 I would guess content which has no meaning being deliberately added to the video is what they have a problem with.
Problem is people are stupid and others want to content farm. The amount of shorts on youtube I've seen of obviously fake clips or totally made up facts being passed around and morons believe it. Or it's ancient youtube clips they are pretending are new and that only THEY have seen it etc
When I see videos like this, every second is like three hours flying by. I can't handle more than a few seconds and I always block/ hit the uninterested button.
We have recently entered the IDA, the internet dark age
20:19 To be fair, Orson Welles did this in Citizen Kane with a screeching cockatoo for this exact reason. Ironic really.
15:14
I think this depends on the editor. The spinning of their icons upside down and moving back and forth is so awful, and ruined their coverage of Ahsoka for me
As a multitasker I'm currently painting warhammer
It's the Fringo Knows Show!
Someone should make a bud dweier top half and minecraft parkour bottom half video
Not only do I not understand the TikTok video, I also do not understand the objection / criticism in this video.
I was listening to this playing in the background while dismantling a Filtrete air purifier. 😊
Im listening to this on my second monitor while playing helldivers2 on my first monitor while checking insta between deaths
13:46 lol, touching grass means spend time with family, go fishing, hiking or plainly just a walk.... ya know they say, walking is good for cognitive behavior to help with memory
I'm all but certain that these tiktok and shorts videos are just automatically generated using whatever videos are trending without context.
I was literally playing Singleplayer Tarkov [SPT-Aki not that BS Unhinged edition] with EFAP on the second monitor, volume at 5% so I can still hear footsteps and audio cues over the podcast. If there's no noise in Tarkov I can hear the podcast. Best of both worlds.
i am content creator and i hate the way tik tok has changed the game, so much disrtaction , I fucking hate shorts and reels and what that content has Done , I want susitance in my content godamit , and I know because I fucking make them, I am the problem
Btw, song in the background of that clip is "Daylight" by David Kushner. Super good song and i hate it was used (most likely without permission) in this low effort zoomer brain clip so much
To be fair, people believed certain onion's sketches were real since they started. But the minecraft footage make it worse indeed. Go watch the story of Brendon Laroux
Where is James Cameron? We need him to raise the bar again
12:58 Mauler is a spoiled brat confirmed
I didn't know that the text on screen was generated by AI. I always assumed that it was for folks like me who despise watching short videos so that I don't have to turn on the audio. Now that I know what it is I'll either skip the video altogether or just avert my gaze while LISTENING ATTENTIVELY to what the person on the screen is saying.
oh and yes there is a computer program that makes those half reel half distraction, it is some awsome software, it makes the content adds the voice music and whatever you need and once its set to go- it can make 24/7
Such a good episode of The Onion, absolutely hilarious…really sad when people do not realise that The Onion is not at all serious especially the more…concerning episodes of it.
Thank you EFAP for doing something for my attention space
Trump can ban Tik Tok, that’s fine
I have adhd, so even if I only have a podcast on, my mind wanders and finds other things to think about. I actually find it easier to listen to podcasts when I’m doing something that doesn’t require a lot of thought, such as warframe, or drawing.
I've seen videos like this with other games, with ai voice reading from reddit stories about how a man's life was ruined by a divorce, or he commited murder etc. it's weird
Vine died for this.
My only exposure to Vine was an RVB video that was made for it, and I watched that video via a RUclips re-upload years after the fact.
So what even was vine?
EFAP trying to understand zoomer/Alpha content is easily the funniest culture shock I’ve seen them endure.
I usually listen to a podcast on a podcast app and there are no visuals. In that case I am usually doing some kind of manual labor that doesn't require too much thought. I do sometimes listen while playing a game that has speed runs or something like that, that will not require much thought.
2:50 // Only thing missing is incorrect subtitles for VERY obvious, common, words.
Real life is the Onion now.
How are you suprised. I just assume people are stupid these days, until proven otherwise.
The ones who get angry rarely prove me wrong.
Ngl, I play Minecraft a LOT paying full attention to EFAP