[yaml-ops-guy]

When you put it like that...I still think the strip club comparison was weird because I can think of at least one other other common and far less contentious career-path with an interview/try-out process similar to this:

Acting.

Is there perhaps something deeper you want to say about sex workers that’s going unsaid right now?

[mc32]

Acting is apt; however, at least in principle you’re doing a screen test given you want to ensure acting ability as well as photogeneity. But we also know the colloquial acting couch.

Strip clubs don’t care what your skills are, they mostly look for the eye candy their clientele seeks. Video is similar in that it doesn’t care about skills other than maybe being able to present yourself at the cost of all other attributes.

[yaml-ops-guy]

There are a lot of really interesting assumptions and projections being made about a number of classes of people going on in this mindset.

But okay.

Thanks for clarifying and sharing your perspective.

[mc32]

Well, we’ll have to wait and see how it gets used but I see potential for this being abused.

It’s not different from TV news vs Daily newspaper. One is more fluff than the other. When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

During a sit down interview you at least have a chance to make your argument if the interviewer has misconceived something or it needs elaboration.

[yaml-ops-guy]

>When was the last time you saw an “ugly” news anchor. In the papers you don’t care what the reporter looks like.

To be completely honest, I don't care what the reporter looks like in either case. But I'm going to presume this was a rhetorical question and not meant as a reply or question to my specific manner of news consumption?

You'll have to forgive me (or, well you don't have to, that's up to you) but this still feels like putting the career carriage in front of the job prospect horse to me-for some reason. Perhaps said another way: none of what you said speaks to me to be a problem with the medium of interviewing (in this case video, ostensibly via tiktok), but instead rather the individuals participating in the process.

I can't quite pin down why, but it's a very strong sensation. I'll take this elsewhere and find a way to reconcile it without going turtles all the way down here in the thread.

[willcipriano]

A service such as this would save Harvey Weinstein a ton of time.