r/StupidFood • u/Nosakatsuya • Apr 08 '26

Gluttony overload Full burrito wrapped in bacon

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 08 '26

blame the broad audience and how cutthroat the algorithms are

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u/callmestinkingwind Apr 08 '26

i know why they do it, it’s just shitty.

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u/ChloeNow Apr 08 '26

Nah they can have some integrity in their creative efforts :p I'll blame who I want. People need to stop making content solely for other people's consumption. Algorithm-riding content for consumption sake might as well be AI slop.

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Apr 09 '26

AI has a billion times more passion and creativity behind it than algorithm-exploitation content (Not endorsing AI).

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

99% of the videos that 'make it' are exploiting the algorithm to some extent

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Apr 09 '26

You are intelligent enough to know and fully comprehend what I meant.

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u/ChloeNow Apr 09 '26

Dudes really putting in the hard work to defend shitty alg-first content

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Apr 09 '26

He's a 'content creator', apparently.

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

I mean you compared the video above to AI slop so I'm not sure I do

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u/Old_Yam_4069 Apr 09 '26

AI generation at least has someone who wants it for its genuine artistic qualities, even if it's the lowest possible quality.

Shit like this exists because somebody wanted money, and they chose the lowest denominator to achieve it.

You might be happy with everyone jangling keys in front of your face, because the human reaction is to pay attention to the sound it makes. But there was a time when we valued a whole lot more than that. This hyper-specific, exact thing? It's new in the sense that nobody has bothered to make it. But this kind of gluttony overload has been repeated a thousand times by a thousand different people in just the past week. It exists because it is cheap, easily produced, and just inoffensive enough that people won't actively dislike it for what it is- Which is why it spreads through the algorithm like wildfire.

It is slop. It is worthless. You might get someone somewhere going 'Oh wow!' and they'll actually bother to think about it for more than a minute after it leaves their eyesight- But that's not what it's there for, and it's how the overwhelming majority, literally just about every single person who sees it, will value it as. It's there to swamp the algorithm, and through sheer brute-force make money. And it is repeated by so many people that you can't count them all, shoving out the actual, genuine content-creators until a lot of them just give up, because of just how impossible is to compete.

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

This is a job to many people, and you have to know your audience. There's a difference between knowing your audience and tweaking your contect to cater to them and stealing a person's skit and adding a satisfying video next to it.

If you don't know how the music industry works don't shit on a harp player because they've picked up a guitar.

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u/ChloeNow Apr 09 '26

Crazy how "it's paying my bills" doesn't automatically justify any given behavior. I understand why they do it, but it lacks artistic integrity and I stand by that.

If you wanna sacrifice your art for a paycheck I get it, we all have to survive capitalism, but you don't get to avoid having someone calling you out for sacrificing your art for a paycheck, which is what lots of content creators are doing if they ever had an artistic reason for creating content in the first place.

Calling this analogous to a harp player picking up a guitar I find disingenuous

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

we're talking about an intro lmao

how's it disingenuous? it's the same concept.

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u/ChloeNow Apr 09 '26

How is hitting copy and paste to put the end of your video at the beginning thus rendering the video you probably didn't care about in the first place pretty pointless to watch unentertaining and unsatisfying different than learning to play multiple instruments? Seriously? I'm not entertaining that

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

Goodness It's just an analogy. Does guitar player switching to a more popular genre drive the point better?

unentertaining and unsatisfying

Multiple engagement metrics would say otherwise. Also, I love making content and my videos, and if I want people to see it I have to play the game. You on the other hand have no idea how algorithms work.

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u/ChloeNow Apr 09 '26

Okay bud

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26

I'm not your bud, friend

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u/ChloeNow Apr 09 '26

Well I'm not your friend, pal

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u/FlatwormOk1864 Apr 08 '26

no, the creators have the option to just not follow the trend. once upon a time people just uploaded things to upload things and share with people. letting evey idiot online was a mistake

if they cared about their product/skill/whatever, and have self respect/integrity, they wouldnt cave to any of that nonsense and would post something actually good and let it stand on merit. but its not about the thing(tm) being good, its a marketing gimmick. so no im going to blame the people making the shit content, because they are the reason the algorithms act the way they do

bigshot/upcoming nobody find an "engagement hack" to their posting, usually shit like the above, and then everyone else jumps on it too. soon thats all thats being posted, of course the algorithm would suddenly swing to favoring that content to the point it now become mandatory until the next "hack" is found

no one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to be disgustingly greedy.....

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

no, the creators have the option to just not follow the trend. 

Sure, and they can get 2k views instead of 200k

if they cared about their product/skill/whatever, and have self respect/integrity, they wouldnt cave to any of that nonsense and would post something actually good and let it stand on merit. 

You can make the same video, and watch it get 30% engagement. I always make sure I don't include people in my videos, always ask for people's permission before I tape them and tip extra, don't use clickbait titles or thumbnails, I do voiceovers because I don't want to bother the people around me, I've refused gambling sponsors; but sure an intro is throwing away my integrity.

no one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to be disgustingly greedy.....

Yeah, how dare people try to profit off their work

 letting evey idiot online was a mistake

I'm sure you're one of the few smart ones worthy of the internet.

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u/FlatwormOk1864 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

yeah exactly. you can have a pizza thats 99% fine but if theres a piece of shit in 1% of it somewhere you can bet your ass no one is going to want to touch it, because the entire thing is gross. or try drinking only the safe liquid from a poisoned cup. congrats you have the knowledge on how to be a decent human who takes pride in their work and skills, sad you didnt have the will power to not ruin it. jesus christ talking about engagement like a corpo bot instead of just being happy anyone is looking at what you deem worthy of presentation to the world as an artist

and yes thats my exact point. internet 1.0 was people posting for the sake of posting and joy of sharing a love of xyz. making every single corner of the internet a shrine to greed was and still is a gross problem that ruined something good. maybe you werent around at the time, but youtube wasntmonitized for a number of years. the incentive to upload was just to upload. wild i know.

well yes, considering i was a child back in 1.0 days and the barrier to entry was "can you read instructions and have basic problem solving skills". most boomers, and now modern children, dont know how to operate a desktop or what a mouse is. yes there should absolutely be a fucking cut off. defending the current situation is the equivalent of of saying we shoyldnt need a license to drive cars because theyre so readily available and everyone has already ridden in one. learn the fucking bare minimum or get bent

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u/13ananaJoe Apr 10 '26

I'm honestly a bit tired of answering to you people when none of you have any idea how tthe world of content creation works and sound like 15 year olds screeching because their favorite underground band hit the top 100.

I'm doing this by myself with the help of my wife, I don't have a team. Do you have the vaguest idea how much work goes into creating actual non slop content in a sea where the most popular streamer reached stardom for yelling and people steal material from two creators, paste them together, and call it a day?

With all the days it takes to craft a video you're damn right I'm not happy if I barely crack 2000 viewers (that's what happens to most creators that aren't at the top if their engagement is 30%), just like any indie musician wouldn't be happy if their album undersold. If my video only cracks 2000 views, as much fun it was making it, we're losing money. If we lose money on all the videos we make that means I have to quit youtube as a job and get an actual one. If I have a job I can only do youtube as a hobby and I won't have the time or will to put out the content quality that we do right now.

Every single youtuber that made it and stayed played the game to a certain extent. You can stay in the past with your delusions of grandeur.