Recently I was getting clips of a Southern Korean stand-up comic I’d never heard of, and I’m glad I did.
I make a habit of watching Reels when I brush my teeth. Helps me get the full 2 minutes in.
Update/upgrade just posted by FB Purity: Fluff Busting ( FB ) Purity
More detail at the link.
Literally what I just came here to post.
I saw him back in college in '90. Then nothing for decades. Now he comes up in Reels and I enjoy watching him. His accent definitely threw me off back then.
Yes, just discovered this for myself and came to post. Yay! Thanks FB Purity! Facebook is now less awful again. Time to donate.
I just remembered something else I used to get a lot: this woman “reacting” to weird old songs
I keep seeing a trend of women applying makeup while giving a seminar on any subject other than makeup. Why is that a thing?
I see a lot of Canadian airborne comedienne Jeenie Beenie. She’s pretty good. Lately I’m seeing Geography Now, which is also pretty good. Every day a surprise smorgasbord. I keep clicking away the crap ones. There are unfortunately a lot of crap ones all the time that show up no matter how many I keep clicking away.
I think reels are annoying too, but I understand why Facebook made them.
It is to attempt to get you to spend as much time as possible on the app. It is usually clickbait, and is designed to autoplay the next continually unless you exit out, essentially giving you an endless (in my opinion overstimulating) TV.
You’re basically right on. They are also saturated with ads which, I’m sure, is the reason Facebook pushes them so hard.
Facebook made them to mimic TikTok. The majority of them are reposted TikTok clips.
And before TikTok, we had Vine.
ETA, totally unrelated, but if you’re watching a youtube short, you can replace “shorts” with “video” in the URL and it’ll play like a normal youtube video.
Correction: Jeenie Weenie. I feel silly even typing that name. But she does good comedy.
I get a lot of BBT and Young Sheldon clips. It annoys me that so many of them are reversed left to right (or have the voices artificially high).
Well, after a couple of months Reels-free, they are showing up again.
Come on, F.B. Purity! I know you can do it! Bust that fluff!
I actually enjoy them. The Algorithms are at play in full force. For a long time, I got a lot of Matt Rife every time. Then we watched his full-length special ( Netflix, maybe? ) and we detested it.
I never posted a WORD about watching it on Facebook.
Just goes to show how well my cell phone is listening. Within a few days of watching the special, all of his Reels material dropped off of my Facebook feed. Coinkydink? Methinks not.
Meanwhile, I to tend to enjoy the cycles of subjects. When I’m bored, I’ll do a Google search on something random or look for things on Facebook and voila- Reels changes.
My last attempt with this experiment? On Facebook I searched “Gold Mining” and whoooo, Nelly. I’ve got about 40% panning for gold videos now. Fun enough, and at some point, they will go away.
Pretty harmless, a good time-killer…and I find stand-up comics I’ve never heard of on Reels.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Sara Silverman lately, which is fine because I think she’s hilarious.
I see The Sarah Silverman Program is streaming on Paramount. I might have to watch a few episodes and see if it holds up. I remember liking it when it first aired. But it sort of disappeared since then. It’s hard to even find clips of it on youtube.
Interestingly, I see Dan Harmon is one of the creators.
I have no problem with anyone who likes any feature on Facebook that I am blocking (or attempting to block). My problem is when I can’t block the things I don’t want to see, and I know that the full and entire reason for Facebook’s behavior in this case is to inveigle me to spend more time and do more activity there, thereby making more money for them. These efforts are all the more frantic as their customer base withers away and zillions in profit turns into only quintillions.
One day I may have to opt out and turn it off. I will regret that, it has its uses.
I’m currently getting a bunch of videos from The Action Lab (a YouTube channel that does science experiments). Before that, I got a series of videos about mathematical toys from the Oxford Mathematics department.