• cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOP
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      22 days ago

      We really didn’t. I’d upload a different version without that before and after if I’d found it

    • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      I mean that’s literally how television shows showing similar format content worked back in the before times… Introduction, footage, commentary.

      Now this lady didn’t add all that much, but it’s a stretch to make this seem like an “influencer” thing…more a product of her time.

      Whippersnapper.

      • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        That context was totally different. Broadcast TV is not just a collection isolated clips you can search for and pull up. But the internet is. And we could just get or share the clip direct from the source without it being edited and packaged into influencer content. Maybe it’s not simple or easy sometimes, but it’s usually possible.

        Those shows of the past were what you tuned into. On the internet, we can share direct pieces of video and audio and images with each other. The commentary is optional. On broadcast television, the context had to come from the packaging. On the internet we can provide text based context alongside the videoclip. We can organize it into a database. We can share it in specific contexts like communities.

        influencers packaging clips like this is different, and the person you replied to is correct. People can enjoy this woman fine and follow her for her commentary. But suggesting this is how we should share information because it’s how broadcast television worked before the internet is justifying something we don’t need to justify. And it’s doing so with an onerous comparison, in my opinion.

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          22 days ago

          But suggesting this is how we should share information because it’s how broadcast television worked before the internet

          Did I? I don’t think so.

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      21 days ago

      I get your point but this lady isn’t a random influencer. She has been diligently spreading awareness on a lot of fucked up things in the US for several years now and has a decent following. She’s doing what she can.

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        21 days ago

        I’m not disagreeing with you on her character (i dont know who this is), but you did just describe an influencer. Although now that I’m rereading your comment I realize you didn’t refute that she’s and influencer just not a ranom one. To add, I also understand that without her influence neither I, nor most of the commenters here would have seen this video and she acheives that by inserting her face to appease the algorithm.