[cosmojg]

> I cut my finger making lunch? So I placed an order for some bandaids a couple minutes ago? And now they're four seconds away! That is a nearly silent drone system that can deliver a package from the sky? Right to my backyard in as little as two minutes? With dinner plate accuracy!

Where else do people talk like this? What motivates this kind of speech?

[rtkwe]

Viewer retention, remember when you were taught to make an interesting intro to an essay to grab the reader? This is just that in video form, to really succeed in getting to the front page/trending of Youtube you really have to grab randos who aren't necessarily coming to you for your content so it has to have an attention grabbing start.

[marcosdumay]

> Where else do people talk like this?

On TV, but it got out of fashion recently.

There's a Monty Python sketch about an island full of foreign news reporters that's quite illustrating.

[new_user_final]

You can ask ChatGPT to make it 500 words intro. It will sound natural, just like, how you talk with your friends. People don't want to wait for someone talking something 5 minutes then realize that it's not the video they want to watch.

The idea is that you want to say everything about the video within 10/15 seconds to make viewer interested.

Just like how you want that the title of HN story must be under 80 character, not 800. Do you start conversation with someone by saying 80 words then go on for 30 minute?