Even so, I much prefer normal captions with full sentences vs. words popping on and off the screen at 10 words per second.
Could you imagine consuming normal content that way (e.g. HN threads)? That would be anxiety inducing (and honestly, these types of videos are probably causing some level of anxiety to some people without them even realizing it).
> Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.
I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.
Welcome to being a minority. That ship has sailed over a decade ago. People like to watch videos without sound. Some like to read because they can’t hear thru accent very well.
That's the most frustrating part for me with Tiktok, Youtube shorts, instagram etc.
I wish you could scrobble through a video - it's more frustrating on Youtube because you always could and now all of a sudden you can't, and now videos 60 seconds or less get auto-converted into shorts (from what I've understood). Very annoying.
Whoever designed this knew what they were doing on an addictions/product/customer retainment level because it sure wasn't a usability/UI engineer that made this decision.
- Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.
- Always shot vertically.
- Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken.
Sorry for the tangential rant.