• @[email protected]
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    116 months ago

    Dammit, I came up with a Halloween costume too late. The plan would’ve been to dress up as a ‘like’ button, and get drunk.

  • atocci
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    106 months ago

    Why is the third panel’s settings icon a spider or a bug of some sort?

    • ChrisOP
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      226 months ago

      Because spider.

      (The artist hides a spider in their comic)

      • atocci
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        26 months ago

        I must now go through every past comic on a search for more

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        I have come across a few children’s illustrators who do this with spiders too, but sometimes on every page.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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    6 months ago

    watching latest Adam Conover video

    Adam: “We’re about to be repeatedly punched in the throat by capitalism. Which brings me to today’s sponsor…”

    Later in the video

    Adam: “Which reminds me that today’s video is also sponsored by…”

    Me: “Well fuck… I wasn’t expecting YOU to punch me in the throat repeatedly with capitalism…”

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      get sponsorblock look at video over half the runtime is automatically skipped for being non-video garbage

  • @[email protected]
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    296 months ago

    You know this one’s old because he didn’t have to sit through multiple 50 second ads.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      What are you talking about? There are fewer ads for this long video. It’s for your benefit. Obviously.

      edit: and we’re adding randomly timed “skip” buttons at various points in the ads to make sure that you can skip when you want! Not to make sure your eyes are on screen at all times.

  • @[email protected]
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    786 months ago

    I remember a post on Reddit about someone putting an ad brake in the middle of a “white noise for sleeping” video.

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      6 months ago

      Didn’t YouTube start putting ads even on non-monetised videos like, a year or so ago? It’s possibly not the uploader’s fault

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      One one hand that’s annoying and would suck if you’re a light sleeper.

      On the other hand I feel like some (most?) people would sleep right through that. In which chase the ad would give money to the uploader dispute the audience literally being asleep. That’s cool because fuck ads lol

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Ah that’s a fair point. ADs that are 20x louder than the video is a sure fire way to get me to close a page.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        Why don’t we just use one of the FOSS white noise applications, which also have options for brown, pink and other colourful noises?
        Or why don’t we just download an mp3 from soundcloud and use that? It’s not like YouTube is giving 1000Kb/s HD audio.

        Oh right, YouTube is right there.

  • @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    At first we thought internet will be a basically free and easily accessible knowledge base of all the things.

    But then extreme monetisation & financial interests were like ‘abso-fucking-lutely not’ & proceeded to monopolise and segregate the inter of our nets.

    Long live Wiki and all fossy things!

      • @[email protected]
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        56 months ago

        It’s an old meme that states the first 30% of every YouTube video is useless and can be skipped without consequence. It’s a constant because it doesn’t matter if the video is 3 or 300 seconds long; The first 30% can always be skipped without missing anything important.

        IIRC, it started on Reddit when a user named Wadsworth wrote about it in one of the AskReddit threads about life hacks.

        • SkaveRat
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          16 months ago

          Correct. And for a while yt had an Easter egg where you could add wadsworth=1 to a url and it would skip to 30% of the video