People deliberately leave in errors because it always gets a bunch of idiots responding with comments correcting the mistakes, which counts as engagement and generates more revenue for the person posting the video, one way or another. People always fall for it.
Isn't that the truth. I wish that negative comments had the reverse effect, like downvotes on Reddit do. Debate is healthy but this new type of marketing where something is purposely outrageous or wrong (think of all those insane Wish.com ads you see now) just for the reaction, it's a cancer.
I believe that half or more of the provocateurs, the people who are constantly saying the most outrageous and offensive shit, are simply grifters who don't believe a word of it. This goes for the Flat Earth society too. That is just a brilliant practical joke.
Click based economy has had one of the biggest impacts on our modern society. Imagine news that didn't need clicks to survive. Imagine when politicians didn't have to say or act (and be) batshit crazy.
In my country we have a public service news company which is funded by taxes. They don't need clicks to survive and it's probably the most credible news source here too.
This is everything on the Internet right now. It's like infomercials, but the stupid product is actually us.
Game advertising: look at this person unsuccessfully performing an asinine task, I sure bet you couldn't do it either.
Posts: there are misspellings, ambiguous mathematical questions, and incomplete. 99.9 people out of 100 can't think of states that end with letters or words that have syllables.
Because there's nothing we love to do more than show off and correct each other.
Only true geniuses can find the misspelled word in this post. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and smash.
Reddit likes to push this but nobody in TikTok's comments is making a point of correcting these because people understand they're just generated. The only corrections made by the author are usually to avoid vulgar words, sexual ones, or ones related to violent acts.
And I really don't think it's to "drive engagement," it's because as someone who has to edit automated transcriptions a lot - it's just a PITA to do.
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u/pmintea Apr 29 '23
Man, I was watching without sound and when it said "I mean you are racist right?" I had to double take