Youtube poops and endless music video memes are some of the best things to come out of the meme culture. Because folk culture is now truly ‘multimedia’ and we have a horde of people for whom hyperactive video and sound editing is second nature. Now just to wait for when it becomes mainstream and commoditized like graphics editing.
I'm hoping for about the same fate for knowledge visualization techniques—might see it happen soon enough now that ‘data science’ is in vogue.
A nice side effect of it being so commonplace now is that most youtubers are doing their own editing, meaning the jokes and queues are very authentic to their personality and intent, vs having to be inserted after the fact by a separate professional who just wants to get the job done. See for example shows like Laymen Gaming or Girlfriend Reviews, both of which are full of Arrested Development style cutaway gags.
> meaning the jokes and queues are very authentic to their personality and intent
I think that's less a thing than we maybe think. I think the medium crafts the message and even the messenger. There are certainly YouTube like "patterns" and I see a lot of channels eventually devolve into them. Time and again over time I see something I like and then they ever so slightly creep towards the YouTube drama stuff, and before you know it they're doing "reaction videos" and even if their other content is still active it just doesn't feel as authentic anymore.
Not to say I entirely disagree, but I do think the medium has a great deal of influence and IMO that impacts "authenticity" and etc.
This makes me think of that editing 'style' where Youtubers will edit out every single pause for breath, so not only do you see their head snapping about every 2 or 3 seconds, you're practically listening to one massive sentence. To me it feels awful and it ends up making me feel tense.
Like anything though, it only takes one or two people to do it before it catches on and everyone starts emulating it.
I'm hoping for about the same fate for knowledge visualization techniques—might see it happen soon enough now that ‘data science’ is in vogue.