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Comment by Faaak | Hacker News Reader

It's cool per se, but I cannot really understand all this waste.

Sure, it's for a cool 20 min video, but all the single-use buttons, mats, acrylic panels, LED strips, custom-made ethernet cables, ... A shame IMHO

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It's not for a cool 20 minute video. It's for the collective viewing time of some 2.2 billion minutes of entertainment. There is no reason to use bootstrap-budget on the supply when the demand is this high.

> collective viewing time of some 2.2 billion minutes of entertainment.

Viewing stats for some videos/events can be hard to get your head around. That's about 50 lifetimes by my calculation.

Baby Shark has 13 billion views, at 2.25 minutes that is 55,000 years!

It will be a high amount of minutes in any case, but not every view on YT will have seen the full 20 minutes

So it also wasted 2.2 billion of people's time on top of the landfill...

Like John Lennon once said, time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted.

Also, a social media website is probably not the right place to point out that other people are wasting their time...

At this point in time, Beast is literally producing entire game shows on a shoestring budget and an insane amount of viewers (aka revenue).

For someone clearly rolling on it, you think he could have popped down to meet the people literally killing themselves (5h sleep) to make his show work?

This happens on films/tv shows as well all the time.

It’s all cheap and pretty much all recyclable. And not going to move any sort of needle on any sort of waste scale.

Nothing an individual does moves the needle. I'd be curious about the effect of showing to billions of people that this was all bought for one time use versus showing a hackerspace where you get, use, and then return your components. (Though, a single video is not going to move people's needles, it's again/always about collective changes...)

I don’t know what to tell you other than you should definitely try that on your YouTube channel.

Are you living a waste free lifestyle or something? Just seems petty to come dump that on someone's project. You can leave the same critical comment on millions of people's work, and they will all have the same zero positive impact.

To the first point: are you? We all do what we can but obviously that's currently an impossible ask..?

To the second: I'm not "dumping" anything on anyone's project, I'm replying to the person I was replying to (edit: just saw that's you /edit). They dismissed some argument because an individual project (including apparently ones with a billion views) allegedly can't have an impact and I see that differently, that's what I was commenting on, not the submission (it's not a top-level comment)

Not sure your office or WFH office was spun any better.

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