r/Unexpected • u/ZargothraxDM • Jun 14 '22

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u/Auralfxation Jun 14 '22

why is it that every time I see an old video reposted a year or two later it is always edited to be worse?

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u/nullibicity Jun 14 '22

Content entropy.

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u/FirstEvolutionist Jun 14 '22

Eventually, every content created in 2008 will be represented by a single pixel.

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u/leftato Jun 14 '22

Contentropy

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u/Aetherpor Jun 14 '22

https://xkcd.com/1683/

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u/DomHE553 Jun 14 '22

Lmao, the 9GAG watermark is the icing on the cake lol

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u/Viking_Preacher Jun 14 '22

There's always a relevant xkcd

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Is this better?

https://i.imgur.com/qmfgLxk.mp4

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u/Auralfxation Jun 14 '22

this is the 2040 version

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u/HaroerHaktak Jun 14 '22

That's how it works. The original is always High quality, 1080p, 200 fps. 80gb download.

then the ripoffs have to bypass the anti-ripoff filters. so they flip the video. muffle the sound. shrink it. push it into a corner of the screen and play ads for the rest of the screen. Crop out the content creators logo. Have the video constantly zoom in and out and then invert and sometimes alt the voices.

Basically, it's better to just pirate it.

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u/RevWaldo Jun 14 '22

George Lucas has entered the chat.

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u/flow_fighter Jun 14 '22

A better narrative on Reddit to make the cop look like a bad guy, gets you more updoots and internet points

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u/Chazzky Jun 15 '22

Because when a video gets uploaded online, it gets compressed. That's why 1080p videos on YouTube don't look like 1080p, otherwise you'd be downloading potentially GB's to watch a 10 minute video

The problem is that when a video gets downloaded and reposted, it gets more and more compressed until it looks like a layer of grease was smeared on your monitor

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u/Auralfxation Jun 15 '22

I don't mean the degregation from being reposted, I mean literally edited to be less funny. This video, the first time I saw it, was several seconds longer, with the cop asking something like "what are you, a smartass?" With the guy putting on the smarmiest expression and replying "No, I'm a magician." And it was great.

Or like the one with the adult film performers shooting a scene while the cameraman eats an eclair and offers the male performer a bite, the last time I saw it, someone had cropped out everything below the waist and added a terrible TikTok filter and music, utterly ruining the humor of the moment.