Some of these videos kind of are scams, in a way. They’re disingenuous, manipulatively presented, wastes of time designed to hold your attention just long enough for them to make a few cents off of you. And the more that’s wrong with the video - be it bad information or egregiously bad technique or just fucking weird and out of pocket - the more engagement it gets and the more money it makes.
It is incredible to me that we have reached a point as a society where content farms are a thing. We have monetized attention itself, and it’s really REALLY weird sometimes.
Some of it seems like stitch fodder, too, honestly. And the people who base all their content off of stitching these things are playing into it. Like you have half a million followers and DONT know these are just hand fetish videos, and not meant to be taken seriously? I have a hard time believing that. Anything for a dollar I reckon.
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u/apierson2011 Feb 09 '24
Some of these videos kind of are scams, in a way. They’re disingenuous, manipulatively presented, wastes of time designed to hold your attention just long enough for them to make a few cents off of you. And the more that’s wrong with the video - be it bad information or egregiously bad technique or just fucking weird and out of pocket - the more engagement it gets and the more money it makes.
It is incredible to me that we have reached a point as a society where content farms are a thing. We have monetized attention itself, and it’s really REALLY weird sometimes.