[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

It's annoying isn't it?

It really is. If you gonna waffle, at least provide the cut-off second-point to where the video actually gets tangible and relevant. At least make it easy for people to skip the unnecessary stuff if they don’t want that. When it’s rubbish or just not that interesting to you it’s just useless white noise that’s long and nothing to do with why you’re trying to watch the video in the first place. By all means beef up your pre-anecdotes and roll them out for a second (not even gonna say a minute, still) but at least get to the point on a tangible schedule. Or at least make it easy for people to know where you have if you not gonna keep the intro short.

It’s like in certain places of work. No-one really likes an unnecessarily long handover that’s just wasting time and trying to force the same level of feeling they have for certain people there onto you. Like you’re supposed to care as much that Mr Donald’s a dick or Karen from the other office ignored them at the water-cooler and was caught shopping at Aldi the other Tuesday despite claiming to be a Waitrose-only snob (maybe she just wanted cash-back so she could eat a Greek restaurant that only takes cash). Unless we know the people or circumstances on a similar level, people don’t care. And they don’t want to listen to someone by the wall standing there talking forever about stuff that’s got nothing to do with them and who the fakest flop-snob of the week is. They just want to know/fill in the deets on what’s been what during those 8/12 hours so they can do their job or get out the door and go home/the pub. The fluff is unnecessary.