Jun 26, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
IT'S SUCH A BIG PROBLEM SERIOUSLY! At least for the terminally online it is, how've you guys been?
The reason it's become such a prolific issue on the internet is because it's just annoying.
It's that simple.
I'll break it down.
I won't add more to it.
I'm not going to give you a whole showboat.
It is annoying.
It works and it is annoying.
It is very frustrating to deal with it because in the age of social media, getting someone's attention and keeping it is absolutely, you know, um, It's like, you have to do it.
Basically...
After that, retention rate can drop off and you'll still get credit for the full video.
The problem is, the longer you keep people's attention the better and that retention rate can be kept by being vague about the topic.
I actively find myself having to not do that just because I know how the algorithm works.
And because of that, it's frustrating.
See, this is a 30-minute podcast, and I told you in the first five minutes what it is.
It's that simple, right? But he didn't go into full details.
There's a lot of stuff that he did miss.
One of them is that the metric was never meant to be that way.
It was never meant to measure...
A video's quality like that.
It was a measure of seeing like, oh, wow, whatever you talked about was a very interesting topic.
So people stuck around to watch the whole thing.
Therefore, we're going to boost it to more people to watch.
That's the original intent.
The reason it's become such a prolific issue on the internet is because it's just annoying.
It's that simple.
I'll break it down.
I won't add more to it.
I'm not going to give you a whole showboat.
It is annoying.
It works and it is annoying.
It is very frustrating to deal with it because in the age of social media, getting someone's attention and keeping it is absolutely, you know, um, It's like, you have to do it.
Basically...
After that, retention rate can drop off and you'll still get credit for the full video.
The problem is, the longer you keep people's attention the better and that retention rate can be kept by being vague about the topic.
I actively find myself having to not do that just because I know how the algorithm works.
And because of that, it's frustrating.
See, this is a 30-minute podcast, and I told you in the first five minutes what it is.
It's that simple, right? But he didn't go into full details.
There's a lot of stuff that he did miss.
One of them is that the metric was never meant to be that way.
It was never meant to measure...
A video's quality like that.
It was a measure of seeing like, oh, wow, whatever you talked about was a very interesting topic.
So people stuck around to watch the whole thing.
Therefore, we're going to boost it to more people to watch.
That's the original intent.
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