what is the tipping point of vlogging. when does a human decide they matter enough to eternally record and upload? - asking for a friend (im the friend)

[tetraterezi]

what is the stack of brain shit that makes a human feel this important?
maybe its cause i was raised by a freak of a human, but how do they justify it? is it just money? do they not feel like a death grip at being in the spotlight?
i wanna upload cause i have had Experiences. but i feel so freaked and shamed about it id rather just give up.
so how do they do it? how do they just go yup imma record my day and then imma upload it.
maybe i have more severe brain damage then i thought.

 

[Bab00n]

It's called narcissism.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

when youtube started paying its creators more for kids content, vlogs are a form of low tier slop that children who are so young they have to lie about their age to create a youtube account enjoy mindlessly watching

 

[Lemmingwiser]

What was the tipping point where people stopped printing books?

It's never going to happen. People like to talk. People like to broadcast. It's effective. It's influential. It's profitable. Get used to it.

Podcasts and vlogs are just a technological upgrade from books, allowing deeper communication. You say it isn't get used that way? Yeah look into some of those early mass printed pamphlets after discovery of the printing press. That's a problem of all ages, that dumb shit is being spread around.

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

The only good vlog channel was Vagrant Holiday. Shame he's gone now, but I suppose accidentally recording a killer stealing his murder weapon draws some unwanted attention to your petty vagrancy channel.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I write because I'm not foolish. My website has two hundred and forty articles right now.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Podcasts and vlogs are just a technological upgrade from books, allowing deeper communication.

I don't even think you can compare books to vlogs or podcasts. Books force you to engage with the text with relatively limited knowledge, so you have to fill in the gaps of the author's insinuations, audio-visual and tactile experiences along with it being a medium that allows you to go back and re-read parts of it to make things clearer. While this does happen with the former two media, they often are used as a distraction instead of being the main event. Plus, they capture too much, so very little is left to the imagination and there's no well thought out narrative with them unlike books. Not to say there aren't books that are absolute shit and podcasts/vlogs that are masterpiwces, but your average book is way better than a vlog or a podcast.

 

[Lemmingwiser]

I don't even think you can compare books to vlogs or podcasts. Books force you to engage with the text with relatively limited knowledge, so you have to fill in the gaps of the author's insinuations, audio-visual and tactile experiences along with it being a medium that allows you to go back and re-read parts of it to make things clearer. While this does happen with the former two media, they often are used as a distraction instead of being the main event. Plus, they capture too much, so very little is left to the imagination and there's no well thought out narrative with them unlike books. Not to say there aren't books that are absolute shit and podcasts/vlogs that are masterpiwces, but your average book is way better than a vlog or a podcast.

But most of that is because books have a barrier to entry, which works as a filter for being produced. As soon as you include ebooks into the equation the quality is completely comparable.

Rereading books is no different than rewatching parts of a video of relistening to parts of a podcast. Especially video has so much additional information that the people who produce them often leak a lot of information that isn't intentional. This is beneficial in the degree that it makes deception harder.

Each medium has advantages and there is something to be said about people's patience being fried by shorts and clickbait making reading less accessible to new generations. Though overall the potential of vlogs and podcasts is immense and some do use it to its full potential. It's been so effective that a lot of good ones (like corbett report) get banned from the mainstream paths.

 

[Bassomatic]

It goes back to ancient times for a lot of reasons. Some people wanted to pass memories on, others record like a diary and some people think everyone gives a shit.

We're quite lucky to have some of them but in 500 years most blogs etc will be forgotten and ignored.

One of the first American cook books was a bored revolutionary war soldier talking about what he ate. Pretty cool but probably was the weirdo of his company.

 

[tetraterezi]

It's called narcissism.

my mother may have that ( most likely, but not diagnosed)
yeah okay, yall get what i mean. i know that my vlog may just join the masses of junk but maybe it worth it to take a crack at anyway?
i have no family pictures or mementos, (or much of a family) but video footage has always interested me (but not enough to want to learn deep deep film shit)
thanks for the crowd sourced font of doubt, critic and humanity.