Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
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Can't help but feel like most of what's posted here is like the "old man yells at cloud" meme lol. Short form video is huge, people love it, young adults spend a ton of time on it, and most importantly it's profitable.
But I get it, us millenials were the primary demographic on the internet for a long time, it's a weird shift to see things that don't cater to us pop up.
Not really, twitch is a streaming service. It's weird for it to have stories. It's like if your toaster also was able to have a small one item freezer. It just doesn't make that much sense.
There's shorts and there's stories. Superficially similar but fundamentally different in how they are consumed.
Makes a lot of sense for Twitch to have shorts, it fits into their core business of streaming. Stories not so much, maybe I'm biased by Instagram and WhatsApp but stories are for personal stuff.
I would argue that short video clips on a video streaming service actually makes a lot of sense...
It is a live streaming service. That doesn't make any sense at all. What are you going to post, the first minute of your stream?
You could already watch previously recorded videos before. You could also previously “clip” a video to isolate a short moment of a stream.
I don't know, maybe funny clips? Notable moments from stream? You know, that clip functionality that Twitch has had for years that allows sharing short clips from the stream?
I'm starting to think you guys have never actually used the platforms you're complaining about lol.
It archives streams after they're done. But until very recently there's been no short clips functionality that I'm aware of. I watch twitch streams almost every day.
Clips, which launched in 2016
Roasted lmao
Twitch isn't only live streaming. There's tons of highlight clips and prerecorded videos on there. They're expanding their feature set to be more varied, I don't really see what the big deal is, honestly. You don't have to use it and it's there for those who will, no real harm done.
Tons of creators streaming on YouTube. Also shorts are an easily palatable way to watch highlights or funny moments from a stream, it makes sense
Can I just not like something?
You can do whatever you want my dude, I'm not the thought police
That's exactly what the thought police would say.
Shit, covers blown!
It's more than just being a certain demographic, I've caught myself numerous times just swiping through YouTube stories without thought. It's a way to gauge interest in topics quickly and frequently to sell advertising. It honestly freaks me out sometimes, how easily it is to just scroll and scroll without even noticing....
Just like the new "samples" tab in YouTube music. A whole new tab, just to show 10 sec versions of music clips.
It seems that in a few generations, the average attention span will consist of milliseconds.
Maybe this generation has already evolved in a way that their brains are able to process the amount of information we are confronted with daily.
This could be our next step in evolution: our brains learn to handle information unconsciously, they grow even bigger over generations, archiving tons of data, we haven't even looked at yet - but can look into, if required.
For sure, constant instant rewarding mechanisms and not practising delayed rewarding in no way whatsoever will do great.