the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high

I immediately skip when I hear/see::

1. "Wait for it"
2. Overused trending meme music
3. Overused trending AI voice
4. Useless people pointing
5. Useless people in the corner
6. Split screen of irrelevant mobile game
7. Tells me not to skip
8. Anything Stranger Things. I haven't caught up yet.

Short form video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Lol my mind went straight to thinking this was some type of apocalypse trend.

When a "Shorts" starts with Watch Till the end for "X" & spouts a big load of Bull throughout the start, yeah it's Clickbait

Post like a bot get blocked like a bot

i always interpret “watch to the end” as being a euphemism for “i did not edit this video properly” or “ipad babies are the intended audience of this video”. in any case, i will not be watching that video.

I'm a simple man, I see TikTok I dislike.

It's like having to wait through an ad on Duolingo except without the reward.

Kinda your own fault for being on Tiktok in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been blissfully unaware of this trend, because I'm not on any other social media! I get that posting this is a bit of smug self-satisfaction, which nobody likes, but I feel strongly that corporate social media is a scourge, and that far too many people farm out their critical thinking to random "content creators." Black-box content algorithms are not doing you any favors, and they will affect your thinking if you subject yourself to them.

wAs EiNsTEiN wRoNg?
wAiT TiLL tHe EnD tO FiNd OuT!
tHe AnSWeR WiLL SHOCK YoU!

Yeah... unliked and blocked, moving on.

This Man Took A Normal Photo Of His Wife But Realised Something Was Very Wrong

Answer In Link Below 👇👇👇

This applies to shorts that start with "this is crazy" and "this is insane".

I hate the slugs who overlay themselves front-and-center over another video to repeatedly point at whatever they want you to observe while steadily breathing through their mouth.

It's even worse when they first point to their ear and then their eye to say, "LISHEN 'n LOOKSH, bruh.."

We are truly in a Renaissance of fucking idiocy.

I can count on one hand the number of videos I've seen where "wait until the end" holds true.

The most recent in years is a video of a dog chewing on something. The owner approaches it and the dog lets go of a hose which then sprays the owner.

Was not expecting that.

Reminds me of a teacher that kept telling us about the intended syllabus every day. But complaining that he had to remove stuff because there was not enough time for everything, while wasting half an hour everyday instead of going for what was possible.

It says something of the Tik-tok generations attention span if you need to put a "wait till the end" reminder for a 10 second video.

Btw if I see this anywhere its an instant downvote/skip.

New trends

It’s because the “algorithm” looks at the average watch time and promotes content that people tend to watch to the end, so they incentivize creating content that has some punchline at the end, or that is just so confusing that you spend the whole time trying to figure out what is going on so you’re less likely to swipe away. If your mind can easily make a judgement about what you’re watching, you’re more likely to decide it’s something you don’t want to watch, and then swipe before the end. This counts against content in the algorithm.

also "game changer"

Saw one yesterday here on Lemmy, where the action happened half way through, and nothing happened at the end, which I skipped to.

"I took a picture of myself making a crazy face and pointing at an object! Will this be the engagement trap I hope it is?!"

Betteridge's law

Watch this list, number 6 will surprise you!!!

Doctors finds that the new food that is causing cancer to everyone who eats is... (Article title cuts here, answer is nowhere to be found in the article title, introduction or conclusion).

'Let me explain' is one for me as well.

They do this because it works on many people.

Ok, downvoted.

If you watch the first hour of this slop you'll be numb and enjoy the next 5 hours.

Lmao it's because peoples attention spans are literally like 2 seconds.

Shits sad

True, but that third panel kinda looks like one of those videos where they make their kitty pop and lock and those are kind of adorable.

Brain dead so I wait

I don't understand what those tiktoks have to do with the text. None of those tiktoks have clickbait titles or tags or anything. They're just silly fun videos.

till

If they could spell the word properly, that'd be great.

I don't know.... Wait till the end of this one

By the same logic, one should downvote any link to YT videos (which is what I do anyway).