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Like pretty much everyone browsing the interwebs, I like scouring through YouTube or Yahoo Video for random bits of entertainment. It's brainless fun that helps the day go by. I noticed this next point early on and it continues to bother me.
Why must every joe shmo who makes "my first video" or "my blah blah blah" use the SAME FREAKING FONT AND EFFECTS from IMovie?? You realize you can change the font, right? Not every piece of text on your homemade masterpiece has to be in Helvetica, and scroll from right to left with a bigger more translucent version of your text scrolling slower in the background. It's been done, this is no longer hip, it is no longer an option to use.
For God's sake, if you take any value in your 'art' or whatever you want to call what you're uploading for the world to see, take some time and make it unique. I can't count how many videos I've seen have the same generic title opening and the same lame ass 'credits' at the end. Ooh, he put his words on a blue background! How creative!
I think what bothers me the most about this is that when you see it, it is a dead giveaway that the author has spent less than 2 minutes putting this S together and for me is the equivalent of reading a children's book. Thanks for wasting me time with your amateur home movie garbage.
I'm not even expecting anything astounding, just not the same damn white on black or whatever color background, gently floating in and fading out. I know it's the default or whatever on IMovie, and when you first saw it you probably thought it was pretty nice, an easy effect that didn't look too bad. Well that time has come and passed, much like Tamagachis and Uggs, every one has seen them, is familiar with them and now wouldn't be caught dead with them unless they're trying to make a statement about how retro cool they are (which is in itself a fallacy since none of these things were ever cool or will ever be no matter how far into the past they recall).
Point: Change your damn font. Change your damn effects. Take 5 extra minutes and make it look like you care about what you are uploading for the world to see.
Bonus idea of the day: As a thought, it would be nice to be able to flag these videos as "lame" or "amateur" to go along with the 'inappropriate' flags that these video sites offer.
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