It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He’s right: I don’t care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia’s entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.
To sum up the video:
Yes, she sucked. But it isn’t like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can’t afford to travel to global events and get good.For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women
I found this strange. He said himself that she had to do 4, and then just…discounted one of them, for some reason? It was a field of 15, that got cut down to 8 in a process he didn’t explain, except to say that it wasn’t the normal group stage.
I’d add a third important bullet point to your summing up: that the points system breaking uses is not necessarily just rewarding the flashiest physical dancing. And that while she is bad, she’s not necessarily as bad compared to other dancers—within the point system used—as you might expect as a complete amateur watching her and watching some other Aussie.
He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I’m not going to go back and check. It wasn’t that interesting. 😀
Drop the clickbate title and say what the video is of.
Not sure about this community, but many Lemmy communities have a rule that if you post a link to a news article or video, you need to keep the post title the same as the source.
o.O another aussie instance. Interesting.
No, you’re right ofcourse. I just did a bad job of explaining my frustration with clickbate naming trends.
The word is “clickbait”, by the way.
Usually it’s spelled that way, but this is more like an eggcorn than a mistake.
I kind of like the idea that it’s clickbating, like the creator is jerking themselves off about how much they love clicks, or how clever they are with their manipulative title.
It’s always spelled that way. The word is clickbait, there is no such thing as “clickbate” and it’s nowhere near common enough of a misspelling to be considered an eggcorn.
I would like you to show me any credible source saying that an eggcorn must achieve widespread adoption before it can be described as such.
The prescriptivist idea that something needs to be in a dictionary before it can be considered a feature of language is something that linguists - including the dictionary authors themselves - disavow.
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to argue here. “Clickbate” is not a word.
Lol, that’s fair. Leaving it for historical reasons.
That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.
The description reads:
Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.
Why now you ask?
I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.
Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.
Thanks for your time and enjoy.
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0:00 - Chapter 0
2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The PiecesThanks for clarifying and also posting the full description.
I dont think the post is bad, just the original video title. It’s also weird that the original description lacks any actual description of what will be talked about. I just dislike the mystery of clickbate titled videos.
If you want to provide a title of your own, be my guest. I prefer when Lemmy users keep their editorialising to a minimum when sharing content from elsewhere in the web, so I stick to OG titles or visible headlines, adding necessary context in square brackets when I feel it’s necessary.
Sorry, didn’t mean this to be a critique of the post. You should totally just use the video title as you did and keep editorializing minimal.
I just dislike the trend of naming videos like this in general. Again, not your fault unless you are the video creator.
Yeah that’s fair. I’m not the creator of this video, but I think this is an interesting case. Because I too hate clickbaity titles. But I actually think that the combination of the thumbnail (“I was there”) with the title made it clear enough what the video would be about. Sure, rephrasing the title as “the true story of how Raygun represented Australia in the Olympics” or something like that would have been better, but that probably still would attracted criticism for clickbaitiness, despite being about as accurate and straightforward as you can get in the short space of a title.
