Slow down a little, genius - I'm merely gifted.

scruffylookingpiratecaptain

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

cicadacalling

the-demon-colonel

Reblogging for SIGNAL BOOST

Storytelling is dead

merelygifted

Storytelling isn’t dead - people’s brains are.  They’re stupid, and all their lives have watched things where everything is obvious all the time, like the old 1st grade Fun with Dick and Jane books.

the-demon-colonel

What are you mad at me for?

If people have brains of tapioca and can only stand to consume soundbite storytelling, then don't you think that has effectively killed the traditional kind?

That's all I was trying to say

Believe me, I don't like the new paradigm - if anything, I was bemoaning the fact that it shifted in the first place

merelygifted

Stupidity hasn’t killed it off *yet.*  There are movies and shows and books with story arcs and such, things that require paying attention.  We can still get at stuff that doesn’t hold consumers’ hands, so they don’t wonder why they’re seeing Spot run b/c they can see the damn ball he’s chasing. Should shit keep up the way it’s going, however, the true writers and poets and storytellers may as well create solely for our own pleasure, or quit.

I’m not mad at you, Dear Heart.  Merely venting  ;)

deadsprout

At first Netflix said, come write for us. We’ll save your cancelled shows and write about whatever niche story you want. Our algorithm says people will watch it!

Then a few years later they said, regardless of our promises or contract obligations we are cancelling shows after two seasons without telling anyone. Turns out no matter how loved a show is, we get less subscriptions after the second season.

How many subscriptions did we bring you? Netflix won’t say.

So writers started writing two season shows. Just give us two seasons, Netflix. Like you promised.

Then Netflix said, oops sorry! Turns out your show didn’t premiere at #1 and the views in the first day weren’t what we wanted so we’re cancelling your second season.

What were the numbers? How many people watched our show? Netflix doesn’t say.

Then, they did something extra special. They started taking shows and splitting their first season into two halves. Inside Job was not two seasons. It was one season split in half.

Oops! Sorry! The second half of your first season didn’t do as well as the first half, so now your show is cancelled!

Why? How many people? How much money? These companies are making cash hand over fist and they refuse to tell people the truth: people loved your show. Loved it. But some corpo exec wanted an infinite money making machine. Do you know how long shows are in production for before you watch them? Years. Like, 5+, even 10+ years. And Netflix gives it less than a week before they decide whether you’re getting cancelled.

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jaubaius

Source

tooies

this website's moderation sucks ass and it has a terrible bot problem and there are an enormous amount of bugs but thankfully we have a staff team hard at work not addressing any of these but instead making shitty ui changes that nobody wants

butchdarling

You know that study that found when doing a blind taste test the majority of people prefer pepsi over coca cola so coke changed their recipe to taste more like pepsi, and people actually liked the new coke a lot less because the people who were buying coke didn't want it to taste like pepsi they wanted their coke to taste like coke. That's what a lot of the new changes tumblr is working on feel like.

desolationlesbian

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

macademia-nut

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

babycharmander

They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!

Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.

lunafandoms

If you use Firefox this extension is god send :D

orlovtrotter

Orlov Trotter stallion Moonsund

merelygifted

After looking at nothing but the pics, I thought, “Must be an Orlov!” then I saw the description and who the OP is  XD

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thesadnessrabbit

If the WHOLE COUNTRY'S economy cannot work without the labor that UPS workers provide, than their labor is worth their demands and more.

No other conclusion can be rationally made from this information.

merelygifted

cnn has become faux news lite in sooo many ways.  Fuck ‘em.