Starting an existential crisis on a videophile forum by demonstrating that chroma subsampling is happening in their eyes, and there's nothing their codec can do about it.

Maintaining a high quality bar can be difficult, given the sheer volume of content being created. And due to the need for users to learn new tools and programming skills, content creators tend to be vastly outnumbered by consumers.

We already seek out this content density in other mediums. A tightly edited YouTube video is typically more engaging per second than a recording of a meandering live stream. A big-budget prime time show beats public access television. A methodically researched essay or deeply reported scoop beats a frantically-written hot take. A song beats a jam s... See more

1. it depends on your budget. if you have $5k to burn then the canon 180 vr setup is prob one of the best on the market right now: https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/vr-content-creator-kit?color=Black&type=Kit. note that this is a all-purpose mirrorless camera with a lens designed for 180 vr capture. there's also the kandao vr cam at $4k: https://us

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3.Content creators/users are digital asset owners. This idea here is critical. As time goes on, users become increasingly empowered with more access to information and therefore better able to control and be in charge of future technology advances.

Hear me out — what if instead of trying to keep up with UGC (won't work) someone started a news organization to only publish once a week with a high-quality investigation of all the biggest news of the previous week? Show more

The shift to putting creators in the driver’s seat was a long-awaited one. But no good thing comes without unintended consequences. Users were uploading 300 hours of video to YouTube every single minute; over 100 million photos were posted to Instagram each day. Even when we look today, it’s impossible to keep up with the number of new Tweets, emai... See more

Every day billions of images, videos, songs, and more media are shared on social media. When those files are posted, a copy of the media is taken from the creator’s device and pasted to the server of the platform distributing it—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok and the like.