{CLICKBATE.EXE} (Brutal Takedown!)

I'm not doing it for the algorithm.

I'm not doing it to try to, uh, make a lot of money, although it would be nice to be big in the algorithm and make a lot of money and, and all these things and, and do the content grind and la dee da dee.

Uh, it, it would be awesome to be able to have all those things, um, to get, you know, gangbusters, uh, impressions and engagement and have people share stuff and, uh, and all that.

[coughs] That would be awesome.

But also I'm, I'm not, I'm not...

That's not the point of this.

The, the point of this is for me.

Uh, this is me earnestly attempting to communicate, um, and therefore I have to do it entirely.

I have to kinda, you know...

I can't, uh, I can't cut out the, I don't know, the grain in, in the photo, you know? I don't know.

If you have a phone, which you most likely do, and you take a photo, and then when you're editing it, there's tools.

Uh, and there's, I don't know, there's probably brightness, sh- contrast, color temperature, saturation, uh, and then it goes into other things, uh, like sharpness, uh, vignette.

Pop is one of the things that, that are on the phones.

Um, but then there's the, the slider called DeNoise, and what DeNoise does is it removes digital noise.

Now, digital noise is not the same thing as grain in a film photograph, but, uh, for the purposes of this, it's very similar.

Old-timey photographs that were taken with real film, um, there's, there's grain in the film.

It's just a, a natural byproduct, uh, of the material substrate itself.

Uh, there's the film, and it's actually a physical material, and so it has striations, and it has difference and stuff like that.

Um, and the higher ISO, the more grain it tends to have, because it is more sensitive to light, therefore the light brings the grain out more.

Um, the lower the ISO, typically, you know, you'll get less offensive grain, but you'll still get grain.

There's always gonna be grain in your photograph, uh, and other effects as well, but this is not about film.

Uh, in, in digital photography with digital sensors, there's something similar going on.

Uh, you'll have digital noise.

Um, and you can actually- go in and like add grain, uh, digitally.

And it, it often looks like shit.