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    2 days ago

    My first instinct was to utter these words.

    Who’s the demographic for this?

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      I am anoffice worker in my 30s, the fourth was brilliant and the cast are always fun

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        The people that liked Jackass are now old as fuck and will find it silly. The youngsters will probably find this movie cringy as fuck.

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          Nah, shit like that is still popular on tiktok. Humans have been enjoying watching other humans hurt themselves for like the entirety of written history.

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            I swear I’m not arguing. Just chatting.

            Tiktok has something a movie like this doesn’t: Catering to the attention span of a fish. Long-form content will fail to capture people that find DikDok appealing.

            I look forward to being wrong.

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              Thank you for the distinction; I’m just chatting as well.

              That’s definitely a fair take. I think Jackass kinda sorta caters to it since a lot of their stunts are fairly short. They might even format it to be closer to the short form video that TikTok/Instagram uses. They were popular back when Vine was a thing, so who knows.

              But, I look forward to being wrong too. I personally don’t find any humor in that kind of content anymore.

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                Maybe its popularity will be how easily it can be chopped up and fed to the DikDok algorithm.

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                  That would be interesting if they tried and pulled it off.

                  Unfortunately, I worry that idea might gain more traction in popular media if successful.

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                    I think we’re already there. Very few movies or television shows or YouTube pieces get filmed without that in mind.

                    On YouTube in particular, one specific thing bothers me: When the silent spaces are spliced out and the “narrators” speak as if they draw no breaths. It’s the audio format of the visual tiktok ruination of narration.

                    It feels like somewhere creators assumed that if they allow the viewer to dwell on a thought they might lose the viewer’s attention. If true, in the end, this format is creating the problem it seems to want to address.

                    It’s probably why I find myself gravitating to older movies or those directors that stubbornly refuse to give up on large formats.

                    I’m particularly looking forward to The Odyssey.

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      My $9.99/month gym has the TVs set to people doing weird and stupid shit and everybody is staring at them all the time.

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        Better than mine where the old fucker behind the desk has Fox News stupefying the population as they pedal their stationary bikes.