Good point about fan fiction. If we can get the copyright thing sorted out, we're about to enter a never-before-seen golden age of fan fiction, where you get to continue building the world yourself.
I have a half-baked thread on this, but yeah - ironically enough I think generative AI may be the thing that actually makes Zuck's "metaverse" bet a good one - not only endless stories, but also visuals, audio, dialogue, etc. Which, considering he rebranded the company to Meta over a year before ChatGPT even launched, is wild.
Great article. My gripe about fake trailers is that I actually turn to movie trailers as a sort of news source, I'm watching them to find out what upcoming movies I might want to see. I can see why some other person might want to watch fan trailers, but their presence in a search for 'movie trailers' on Youtube is detrimental to my experience.
The feature I'd like is the ability to simply block certain channels for my own account on Youtube. Currently there's no way to do this. You can thumbs-down something in your recommendations, but it doesn't change search results as dramatically as I'd like.
I think the closest is opening up the hamburger menu on the homepage and choosing "don't recommend this channel" but you're right, there's no way to do it once you've started watching the video or if it comes up in search.
Thanks for a great deep dive. I stumbled upon a fake Constantine 2 trailer just the other day and was wondering what the motivation was apart from racking up views and ad revenue.
I enjoyed the more nuanced take.
And thanks for the shout-out to my (now-rather-outdated) "How to" guide.
Good point about fan fiction. If we can get the copyright thing sorted out, we're about to enter a never-before-seen golden age of fan fiction, where you get to continue building the world yourself.
I have a half-baked thread on this, but yeah - ironically enough I think generative AI may be the thing that actually makes Zuck's "metaverse" bet a good one - not only endless stories, but also visuals, audio, dialogue, etc. Which, considering he rebranded the company to Meta over a year before ChatGPT even launched, is wild.
Great article. My gripe about fake trailers is that I actually turn to movie trailers as a sort of news source, I'm watching them to find out what upcoming movies I might want to see. I can see why some other person might want to watch fan trailers, but their presence in a search for 'movie trailers' on Youtube is detrimental to my experience.
The feature I'd like is the ability to simply block certain channels for my own account on Youtube. Currently there's no way to do this. You can thumbs-down something in your recommendations, but it doesn't change search results as dramatically as I'd like.
I think the closest is opening up the hamburger menu on the homepage and choosing "don't recommend this channel" but you're right, there's no way to do it once you've started watching the video or if it comes up in search.
Thanks for a great deep dive. I stumbled upon a fake Constantine 2 trailer just the other day and was wondering what the motivation was apart from racking up views and ad revenue.
I enjoyed the more nuanced take.
And thanks for the shout-out to my (now-rather-outdated) "How to" guide.
Anytime, boss!