My theory is that it is used in the belief that it would trick and bypass algorithms used to detect copyrighted videos.
Probably to evade some software determining it’s stolen/unlicensed copyrighted content and DMCA-ing/removing it (e.g. YouTube’s Content ID system)?
That’s exactly what it’s for. Some of them have background music on them, to get it misclassified. Some also put a random face at the bottom with the same phrases every now and then to get it classified as a reaction video. I’ve also seen black lines in the middle of the screen. Sometimes the clip jumps forwards and backwards to make it harder to detect.
I think the subway surfer thing was also originally intended for that, before it was found that it somehow also increases attention. The split between the videos also makes it harder to identify what it is, so maybe it’ll get classified as a minecraft clip instead of copyrighted movie.
People go to insane length to post full movies and shows on YT Shorts/TikTok/Instagram. It’s like early YouTube again where you’d watch and episode over 50 parts.
God I miss being able to find whole movies split into chunks that someone uploaded. It’s how I first watched Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny.
Until you find that part 42/53 was deleted
https://youtu.be/st21dIMaGMs?si=zBY5TWL9A5h6129z
Found the original sketch, found no such lines. Probably some random bullshit added to mess with algorithms.
I can’t imagine why someone would pirate this video instead of just watching the original…oh
ProtonVPN has a free tier FYI.
And its not “free” as in a data-harvesting honeypot, rather that they make enough money from paid users that they can afford giving access to a few servers for a free tier.
That’s that high-end continental breakfast lighting. Understandable that most people wouldn’t know.
I’ve never seen anything like that in my life
Never been on any Facebook or Instagram video reel, have you? You can’t go 10 reels in before hitting something like this, even if it’s not exactly like this.
I use both those things all the time
Where did you find this? Never seen anything like it in my whole life
It’s all over YouTube shorts from shitty third world content theft channels.
Oh gotcha. I don’t watch those.
They pop up regardless- the “algorithm”. I downvote and block the worst of them to try and reduce it, but Google still ends up pushing some in
Oh, I don’t use the algorithm. I have watch history off and only watch from my subscriptions page, that plus uBlock, Sponsorblock + DeArrow and any number of shorts blocker extensions make YouTube much more tolerable imo, highly recommend. I also archive my Favourites playlist (over 6k vids at this point) with yt-dlp to avoid losing videos and use Piped and invidious to get around geoblocks.
Not to be confused with rolling shutter effects like this that can happen when filming TVs.
Can you link the video?
https://lemmy.world/comment/14443335 this is the original
Sorry. I lost the link to it on Instagram
Afraid I’m not going to be much help then.
My guess is glare or a reflection. A screenshot isn’t much to go off.
Have you heard of sunlight?
That is some serious fourh wall shit, with the sunlight blurring the subtitles.
