The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists
https://lemmy.world/post/29379732
The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists - Lemmy.World
I went with the article title, but I think this isn’t enshitification in the
traditional sense of the platform making bad choices from a user perspective.
Instead this is about shitty use of the platform by malicious users. This
article talks about a practice the author has dubbed “Playlist Stuffing” where
an irrelevant, long, and monetized video is added into a playlist, low enough to
not show up in the search result for that playlist. The accounts engaging in
this seem to be compromised and abandoned accounts from the early days of
youtube. From the article: > In recent months, however, countless tainted
playlists have cropped up in YouTube search results. Engadget compiled a sample
of 100 channels (there are undoubtedly many, many more) engaged in what we’ll
refer to as playlist stuffing. These had between 30 and 1,987 playlists each —
58,191 in total. The overwhelming majority of these stuffed playlists contain an
irrelevant, nearly hour-long video simply titled “More.” > > The robotic
narration of “More” begins: “Cryptocurrency investing, when approached with a
long-term perspective, can be a powerful way to build wealth.” You’d be forgiven
for assuming its aim is to direct unwitting listeners to a shitcoin
pump-and-dump. But over the next 57 minutes and 55 seconds, it meanders
incoherently between a variety of topics like affiliate marketing, making a
website and search engine optimization. > > For all its supposed advice on
making easy money online, its best example isn’t anything said in the video,
it’s that “More” has amassed nearly 7.5 million views at the time of this
writing — and it’s monetized. > The vast majority of channels engaged in this
activity were created in 2006, and the youngest was claimed in February of 2009.
In all likelihood, these accounts were abandoned long ago and have since been
compromised, either by whoever is behind “More” or by a third party which sold
access to these accounts to them.
How "Record of Lodoss War" Started as a D&D Game and Influenced Anime and Tabletop Gaming - Anime Herald
https://lemmy.world/post/22650824
How "Record of Lodoss War" Started as a D&D Game and Influenced Anime and Tabletop Gaming - Anime Herald - Lemmy.World
cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/7586224
[https://ani.social/post/7586224] > Some excerpts: > > About Record of Lodoss
War’s origins: > > > Record of Lodoss War originally started as a TTRPG Replay,
a written transcript of a tabletop RPG (TTRPG), with the first Lodoss War
stories being a Replay for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. > > > Reading the
original Replays is oddly endearing. I expected the chit-chat, playful snipes at
the DM, or even the reading of dice rolls to be cut out in order to make the
players’ adventure read like an actual narrative and not a transcription. All of
that stays in the Lodoss Replays, however. Everything from excitedly reading out
dice results to the players’ reactions to twists in the narrative, to character
creation itself, is kept in the text. > > About its influence on Japanese
TTRPGs: > > > Besides the good that Record of Lodoss War did for Group SNE as a
company and the aesthetics of anime itself, it was also good for fostering a
small but dedicated community of TTRPG aficionados in Japan. TTRPG Replays are
still very much alive and well, although many of them are being replaced by
Twitch VODs and YouTube videos. > > > Tabletop RPGs are still enjoyed as a
pastime in Japan. Since Sword World [game created by Lodoss War author] dropped,
Japanese game designers have produced a plethora of TTRPGs, including fantasy
games like Alshard and Arianhrod, which both use their own versions of 2d6 dice
systems, similar to Sword World. Both games are distinct from SW, with Alshard
taking its imagery from Norse mythology and Arianhrod feeling more like Ragnarok
Online than D&D, but they are still high fantasy games at their core. > > About
its influence on fantasy anime: > > > In much the same way that Fist of the
North Star or Saint Seiya changed the shonen battle subgenre, or how Rose of
Versailles changed romance manga, Record of Lodoss War brought a lot of key
narrative and design elements to the foreground. The Lodoss aesthetic of flowing
capes, long hair whipping around in the wind, and chitinous armour has been
recreated and lampooned over the years.
