If there still exists the internet, electricity, people with enough money for computers and time between scavenging to waste time on our American drivel...then I agree. They'll read our complaining about how we gave our Democracy & Freedom away to a Russian sponsored sociopathic dictator wannabe.
That's kind of the nature of art, isn't it? I mean, you can read Romeo and Juliet and realize, on some level, that a man who's been dead for 400 years managed to put his little inner voice in your head.
even nowadays when I watch a video of a creator who passed away long ago is wild
EVEN watching videos of creators who are still alive but the video is like from 8-10y ago is also really something else
It is crazy to think about how, most likely, most content will outlive it's creators. Happens with books and movies and everything so I suppose online videos makes sense too 😅 internet is forever and all that
I think that's a lovely thought honestly. My great grandkids can watch very stupid video game reviews I made and ask my kids why I'm such a weird nerd.
Take heart that most "content" won't survive 80 years simply because it's an ephemeral format and not that good or important. Whatever survives will be little more than a historical curiosity.
You ever seen an episode of Captain Video and his Video Rangers? Arthur Godfrey and Friends?
I mean, not really? I feel like most of the art consumed today is made and contains dead people, so this'll be jarringly not jarring to watch dead YouTubers.
I don't think all youtube video will be around in 70+ years.
Even IF youtube as a plattform is still around someone will have made the decision that it's not worth the cost to have 50 year old vids up. If youtube continues to be around, they'll purge old content eventually.
I dunno. It’s seems like the most enduring aspect of influencer content is how ephemeral it is. Does anyone actually go back abd watch viral videos from even 5 years ago? I doubt any of this will be remembered even 10 years from now. We live in a fire and forget culture now.
I don't think our corporate overlords will approve of spending the money to keep that content hosted. It'll be a wasteland of dead links and broken pages. Porn might survive though...
Imagine the weird vibe you get when watching films from 1930s-60s with dead characters but they’re directly talking to you in a quality comparable to eyesight 😬
You say that like modern content isn’t already buried under an unfathomable depth of generated content. Right now it’s like finding a Diamond on a beach. In the future it’ll be like finding a Diamond under a continent
I really don’t think anyone still alive in 70-80 years is going to look back on the content of today and purposefully seek it out for any reason. Ever.
My diary of events to pass down will be what episodes , YouTube addresses and weird quotes like " not all everyone can be a hero.but the only heroes,are the one,who did it...well enough" thanks 👍
Assuming we don't somehow stumble into drastically extended lifespans through medical technology... though I imagine if they can still access the data that far in the future, it would be far easier to parse what was going on in society than the insights we get from times past right now
Not that long left dude. "We are now, at any point, just 1 harvest away from a synchronized Low Yield Event leading to a catastrophic worldwide Harvest Failure" U.N. Food Chief.
We cant even watch vods from a few years ago because everyone deleted theirs when they were worried about music in their streams, then went right back to using it.
Do you really think YouTube and amazon will be paying the expensive bill to store and have accessible billions of hours of lets plays?
we can still watch Going My Way, regardless of how dead Bing Crosby is. I wouldn't call art surviving the artist odd, that's generally the way it goes.
I often have that thought but over a much longer time span. Imagine being able to watch the feed from something from 2-3,000 years ago? Gladiator...for real; Siege of Troy; Roman invasion of Britain; the Crucifiction; etc, etc.
i'm sure the accounts will be hereditary by that point
like i'm sure some of us will live long enough to see mr beast's son/daughter (or not mr beast's, just an example) continuing their father's content creation stuff
I mean, we can read books from authors long gone, we can watch movies from dead dead directors with dead actors.
But I suppose that it's far from the same level of proximity.
Previous generations left letters and photos. We'll leave endless scrolling feeds of our daily thoughts, frozen in amber. Strange to think of our hot takes becoming historical artifacts. Digital footprints outlasting actual footsteps.
Everything is saved on a server somewhere. Let’s be real it will be lost. Like half the early internet is gone because the companies that ran the data went out of business. Realistically the fate of the content from creators is dim and will just slowly be forgotten.
Our content will likely be of interest only if it suggests answers to "why did they do that?" Or, "whatever were they thinking?", much as 70-80 years after 1933, we asked the same questions.
I almost feel like the platforms would be gone by then like Vine and take all its content with it.
People will find flash drives with the videos but have nothing to play it on like VHS tapes
Ever try to find old movies on streaming platforms? Beta tapes? VHS? Cassette? You're making a pretty big assumption that anything you create today will still be around in 70 years.
Odds are most of it will be lost in 20.
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even nowadays when I watch a video of a creator who passed away long ago is wild
EVEN watching videos of creators who are still alive but the video is like from 8-10y ago is also really something else
I had a look at popular movies from 1944 haven’t seen a single one. 80 years from now no one is watching content from 2024.
You ever seen an episode of Captain Video and his Video Rangers? Arthur Godfrey and Friends?
Even IF youtube as a plattform is still around someone will have made the decision that it's not worth the cost to have 50 year old vids up. If youtube continues to be around, they'll purge old content eventually.
Everyone is free to adopt this term
Do you really think YouTube and amazon will be paying the expensive bill to store and have accessible billions of hours of lets plays?
Or music
like i'm sure some of us will live long enough to see mr beast's son/daughter (or not mr beast's, just an example) continuing their father's content creation stuff
But I suppose that it's far from the same level of proximity.
It will be cherished, valuable, a link to a previous age when ideas and expression came from real humans.
People will find flash drives with the videos but have nothing to play it on like VHS tapes
On a side note, bold of you to assume we will still be around as a species in 70-80 yrs.
Odds are most of it will be lost in 20.