Comment on The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]

CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.

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  • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    o.O another aussie instance. Interesting.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, you’re right ofcourse. I just did a bad job of explaining my frustration with clickbate naming trends.

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The word is “clickbait”, by the way.

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Usually it’s spelled that way, but this is more like an eggcorn.

        I kind of like the idea that it’s clickbating, like the creator is jerking themselves off about how much they love clicks, or how clever they are with their manipulative title.

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• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.

  The description reads:
  Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.

  My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.

  Why now you ask?

  I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.

  Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.

  Thanks for your time and enjoy.

  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  0:00 - Chapter 0
  2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
  11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
  16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
  20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
  23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks for clarifying and also posting the full description.

    I dont think the post is bad, just the original video title. It’s also weird that the original description lacks any actual description of what will be talked about. I just dislike the mystery of clickbate titled videos.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you want to provide a title of your own, be my guest. I prefer when Lemmy users keep their editorialising to a minimum when sharing content from elsewhere in the web, so I stick to OG titles or visible headlines, adding necessary context in square brackets when I feel it’s necessary.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sorry, didn’t mean this to be a critique of the post. You should totally just use the video title as you did and keep editorializing minimal.

    I just dislike the trend of naming videos like this in general. Again, not your fault unless you are the video creator.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s fair. I’m not the creator of this video, but I think this is an interesting case. Because I too hate clickbaity titles. But I actually think that the combination of the thumbnail (“I was there”) with the title made it clear enough what the video would be about. Sure, rephrasing the title as “the true story of how Raygun represented Australia in the Olympics” or something like that would have been better, but that probably still would attracted criticism for clickbaitiness, despite being about as accurate and straightforward as you can get in the short space of a title.

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