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TLDW: skipped through until 25:47: the rail doesnt lengthen it just extends to the tops and sides.
This could have been a 5 minute video. All that “Whooa”-Shots and leadup was not needed but is the American way of storytelling: Very talkative and getting amazed by every detail.
He's so American that he's actually Australian
I didn't know I needed to be Dutch to use the Dutch angle perspective in my photos.
Or a cowboy to use the cowboy shot.
Using a method named after a place or something does not mean being from that place etc
I bet his main viewership is American and that is why he makes the videos like this. If it were for his home turf it would contain way more slurs and accent.
It's a shit title because the video us actually about metallurgy and thermite welding, not track expansion and contraction.
I'm subscribed, when the video came out something along those lines was the title. They likely changed it because it performed better with viewers.
He has a video from a while back where he gets into how he does A/B testing with titles and thumbnails. TL;DR click bait titles and thumbnails work.
it's a good hook because I always thought they were supposed to have gaps
I imagine this guy watching a vsauce video going "oh god there's so much irrelevant shit". I like that these videos are about being curious about one thing and discovering other things for it, rather than being about learninga single fact.
He probably just noticed this amazing video that is about what the title says - https://youtu.be/zqmOSMAtadc
(It's Practical Engineering).
woah it goes on and on for 16 minutes just to say because strain? pssh, I could've watched 4000 tiktoks in that time all split between someone saying half a sentence with "wait for it" messages to keep me invested in the second half at the top and subway runner at the bottom
TLDW: skipped through until 25:47: the rail doesnt lengthen it just extends to the tops and sides.
That isn't really true though. He never talked about 'sun kink' which is a thing. Apparently mostly due to poor ties and bedding.
There's a neat discussion I found on some forum
So it appears the topic wasn't able to be covered fully in 30 minutes, let alone 5. But I do agree he adds a lot of fluff and it gets annoying. The thermite manufacturing guy needs a channel.
Yeah in Melbourne several years back we had a heat wave that fucked up a bunch of the train tracks.
Isn't the thunk-thunk as you're travelling the wheels of the carriage passing over the expansion joints?.
Nowadays there are no thermal expansion joints, the rails are welded. Any thunk thunk left is at switches.
You should probably watch the video. It's informative and answers your question.
Do people really sit down and watch 30 minute videos on this type of crap?
3 minutes and I MIGHT have wanted to check it out.
ah. you're the reason sharts are replacing good content. good to know
So did you watch the video? Does it take 30 minutes to answer that question?
If you really want the details on why, then yes
But it doesn't seem like you're the person who is into knowing about why the world is how it is. So I suppose you'll not want to know
i think thats a bit of a damning assessment. dude just has a short attention span, doesnt mean you know them well enough to say what "kind" of person they are
It takes 30 minutes to explore the engineering topic. Its interesting for me
Do you also complain that the movie Titanic wasn't 30 seconds long? After all that's all you need to show the ship.
Thankfully most media isn't about addressing the literal title.
These videos are more than one narrow, they give demonstrations, examples, visit restricted areas and get to touch reallly cool machinery. This isnt a 3 minute speedrun world record stretched to a 45 minute video.
The title just doesn't describe the content
Do people really sat and watch hours of engineering or cultural content . Well yes autistic people exist and learning things is cool.
Yes, I do.
Why would you announce to the world that your attention span is so short and your interests so shallow that you can't possibly fathom anyone watching a 30-minute video on an interesting topic?
Were you raised on an iPad?
Yep
Lol look at the community name... 🙄
It doesn't say "Videosthatarewaytoolong"
which is good. It wouldn't be the right place for it
I'm glad people can see in 30 minutes a lot of the metallurgical and chemistry techniques I learned in my University days.
I think TikTok may be more up your alley, though I would not recommend it.
If it's entertaining and well presented I could and have watched videos like this that are multiple hours long.
Also why do you think this is crap?
Yes. I watched this earlier today.
Veritasium has made high production value drivel for years. The flashiness he insists on is deeply annoying and I kind of find his personality off putting lately. He wasn’t so smug back when he first started and I used to love him