{"id":7140,"date":"2017-10-25T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:49:58","slug":"linked-the-silent-film-returns-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/linked-the-silent-film-returns-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Silent Film Returns \u2014 on Social Media&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2450,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/13\\\/movies\\\/silent-film-youtube-videos.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/13\/movies\/silent-film-youtube-videos.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via NYTIMES<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The summer\u2019s hottest destination for video entertainment is a U.K.-based social media brand called LADbible. In July alone, the viral clips that churn out of its Facebook page were viewed more than 3 billion times. Though the site is nominally branded around young British men, its offerings hold an oddly universal appeal. On a recent afternoon, it served up videos of a guy accidentally hitting himself in the head with a baseball bat; a pizza being made out of French fries; a dog bathing in a Jacuzzi; a woodworker crafting a salad bowl; a tourist riding a slide down the Great Wall of China and a manatee kissing a snorkeler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The videos are curated from disparate sources, filmed on smartphones and GoPros around the world, but they all have one thing in common: They\u2019re best watched silently. If they even have sound, it\u2019s completely beside the point.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t use social media so I have zero exposure to this but I went on YouTube to find videos uploaded by Business Insider and BuzzFeed because if anyone is making these, it\u2019s these two. I imagine Mashable probably got on this band-wagon as well. Sure enough, photos with blue blocky text explaining what you\u2019re seeing in the video. The video itself acts more like B-Roll because the consumer is reading instead of watching and if you keep it on mute, not much is lost because it\u2019s usually just upbeat music with spoken word by a narrator best summarized by the content of the blocky text. Here\u2019s a sample:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CzxY2-60I-0.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, 1.5 minutes in length, can be watched silently. Ignoring the fact that I\u2019d never consume a video on a tiny phone screen and rarely my 9.7\u201d iPad Pro, don\u2019t people have headphones that they can put on? Is that too much effort now?<\/p>\n<p>I see my girlfriend browse through SnapChat w\/o any audio on so I guess it\u2019s a thing now but I\u2019d prefer she do what I do and dedicate time to consume online video on her laptop or TV using our $800 wireless sound-bar with subwoofer than stare blankly into her phone for an hour a day.<\/p>\n<p>Even when I commuted on the subway, I\u2019d read long-form editorials and books or listen to them via Audible. Do subways even have cell phone service now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NYTIMES: The summer\u2019s hottest destination for video entertainment is a U.K.-based social media brand called LADbible. 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