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‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer Clavicular charged with rape in Massachusetts
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No surprise. What’s the ROI there, Clav?
I recommend the Channel 5 interview with Clavicular. It was all new to me and the guy is a trip.
I felt so much dumber having to listen to him speak for that long. I put it on at the start of a ~1 hr drive. I didn't want to fumble around with my phone to turn it off, but man it was hard to listen to. The guy is insufferable.
Pro tip: podcasts, audiobooks and such often work better at the speed of 1.15 or so.
This message is brought to you by that time I watched 'The Matrix' 2 and 3 before discovering the speed option in VLC. Which I still lament.
If it's spoken word stuff, the feature to remove dead air really helps, too.
Idk, I like natural flow just fine, it's just that some people talk slowly compared to others (to e.g. James Duane or Cory Doctorow). I can't imagine removing every pause from a talk — or rather, I've seen videos that are edited that way, and it's quite jarring.
In fact, I'd prefer if audiobooks had more pauses in appropriate places, namely between chapters. I need a bit of time to file what I just heard under ‘a section ended’ without going into another one without a break.
Eh, YMMV. The apps Overcast and Pocket Casts seem to make it work just fine so much so that I don't really even notice it once I turn it on for a given podcast. At least with an app, it's you with the power to change it, or turn it off/on, and you can decide which podcast(s) to turn it on for and how much it does.
I think I know what you mean for certain videos...I hate it when some people use that "clipped" style when the video jumps, often for some kind of comic effect or to emphasize some point - I'm sure it has a name, but holy shit is it something I cannot unsee and I've been seeing it for so many years now. It seems so many Youtubers do it, especially if they trend younger. It is one of the most overdone effects ever - to the point that I bet sometime down the line, it will be mocked like the star-wipe effect is a joke from video editing software from the 80s....
It reminds me of that style that radio uses a lot, where something is said, than it's repeated again with an echo effect, and I've been hearing it since the 90s. I'm sure that has a name, too, but hearing these things is like the Wilhelm Scream - once you hear it, you'll hear it over and over and over....
Not comic really, it's just all the “uhhh”s and “ummm”s cut out along with pauses that are deemed too long. Basically a way to one-shot the filming process by doing lots of editing. I definitely notice the editing when watching the video, idk for sure if I'd hear it just by the audio.
I wish I could find an example of what I'm talking about.
I think some is done more for "engagement" and editing for time and trying to game the YT algorithm (sigh) and like you said, removing the sneezes, coughs, uhhs and ums and doing it rather inartfully since it's mostly a disposable format.
I'm talking about a certain style of presentation that seems intentionally done where sentence fragments are kind of chopped together where one word barely or doesn't even end, and another begins.
What's worse is I've heard Gen Z and alpha sometimes try to imitate this style in everyday speech and if people think vocal fry is annoying, holy fuck, this is 1000x vocal fry.
Sounds like I'm lucky in having avoided this trend so far. I prefer this kind of speech hyper-editing.
I've never had a podcast not work because of the speed I was listening to it at, what do you mean they work better?
‘Work’ in the sense that they better match my speed of comprehension and the rhythm of life to which I'm used. The same way as films from the eighties are often quite slow, e.g. watching Bill Murray take half a minute to walk across the room in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ was too much.
In the podcast app I'm using, I have speed setting for every subscription set to an optimal value, depending on the host/guests and the density of material.
Previously I've also tried higher speed like 1.3, but found that I can't remember the content afterwards.
That’s a lot of words to say “I have the attention span of a toddler.”
Your comment has about as much to do with what I wrote as chocolate does with fish. By your logic, it's better to listen at 0.00000001 speed because that would mean I got attention span of a supergenius.
Also btw, if you think that an increase in playback speed of 15% radically alters the timespan of media, you need to get your own perception faculties checked.
I watched 5 minutes. What a shallow tool
Do you have a link?
https://youtu.be/-_6mni6k0Zw
Even the video ID looks like it's embarrassed and trying to duck around the side of the 6 to hide.
I'm wary of channel 5 after they gave their mailing list away to hunter biden's memecoin team. I'm not a fan of that.
I'm wary of channel 5 because Andrew Callaghan is a rapist
I think you missed the second half of that story. Andrew posted a short video about it - that is not exactly what happened and hunter biden's team agreed.
I looked it up and they gave emails away to boost other projects and when this project started asked for them not to be included in crypto advertising. None of his subscribers ever received emails through his list for crypto due to this request.
Yes, he screwed that up. I am aware of the issue and my info is in there. Whether it was intentional or not, I think Andrew made a mistake through ignorance (either that it was wrong or that he’d get caught) and he seems to be mostly owning up to it. I’d like to think he did not have ill intentions, so in light of the superlative work he and his team do I’ll let that one slide for now and move on. But I am also far too cynical to be convinced the list got deleted as promised.