[s1mon]

I spend way too much time on short videos on Instagram and TikTok. I've got Sora and I've tried a bunch of times and I'm just baffled by its success so far.

First of all I almost never use these video services with the sound on. I know I'm not the only one, because many services have captions on by default. Sora doesn't seem to have a solution for this yet.

Second, I have almost no desire to see videos with @Sama cameos. I get served a bunch of them every time. Along with MLK, Lincoln, Kennedy etc. @Sama isn't funny to me, and raping the likenesses of some of those figures doesn't really work for me.

Third, there's not enough creativity and range in the videos. I see way too many of the same videos over and over and over. The riffs on the 1980s/90s TV commercial with the kid opening the sucky Christmas present. Ok, maybe there's a small iota of humor once or twice, but not enough to sustain endless remixes of the same thing.

I also hate just about all Jim Carrey films (except maybe the Truman Show) but many other people seem to love them. Perhaps Sora just isn't for me.

[lm28469]

How old are you ? Kids will grow up with these techs like we grew up with TV and early consoles, they'll love it and see it as a baseline.

I don't understand tiktok at all, but when I go for my daily walks I see groups of kids (10-15) standing on benches in groups of 3-5, each of them doomscrolling on their phone, kids walking while scrolling (and the permanent deformed neck that come with it), it's the norm not the exception.

[rightbyte]

> I also hate just about all Jim Carrey films (except maybe the Truman Show) but many other people seem to love them. Perhaps Sora just isn't for me.

What do you think about Cable Guy? It is essentially a somewhat social realist movie about the total nightmare of having a typical Jim Carrey character in your life. You might like it.

[asveikau]

Haven't seen that one since it was current. I remember people really disliking it, as Carrey had blown onto the scene with Ace Ventura and set expectations thusly, and it wasn't as successful a role change as Truman Show or even something like Liar Liar.

[delduca]

Cable guy is amazing.

[sigmar]

It's an MVP with very little creative diversity. But I like the concept of being able to write "change the background to the inside of a circus tent" or "replace the hat with a fedora" and a minute later my own spin is added as a "remix"