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Friday Fun Thread for October 11, 2024

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Is the editing standard Korean style TV editing, with every "ooooohhhhh" reaction repeated five times over? There's some entertaining stuff coming out of Korean "unscripted" media but I utterly despise their presentation style. Even similar shows from other East Asian countries never seem to do it as obnoxiously.

Yeah, that is present. It is extremely irritating, and you can tell when it is going to lead to an irritating cliffhanger.

However, nothing is as irritating as either Chinese style bullet comments where social media comments fly across the screen as the most irritating chyrons ever, or the canned laughters/splashes that infest East Asian variety shows from 1980 to 2080. Shifting away from that is a hallmark of producers who worked in the west, and that alone makes up for the cultural destruction the west imposed on the world with the simon wellfication of snarky bitches being hosts for 2 decades,

Oddly enough, the visual clutter from bullet comments and splashes has never quite bothered me. I find the repeated "oooohhh"s a unique kind of grating to the point I'll actively avoid any unscripted Korean media. I do agree though that shifting away from these sorts of editing styles as a whole would be a net positive for me, even if at the cost of some of the core content.