Could be since videos were always an option before.
Now there's not much to fall back on if videos become too difficult to distinguish what's real or not. Is there anything beyond video that we can trust when looking for information?
One idea for the "enter a URL" path. If you save the image URL for a longer time period, you could give the viewer the option to re-run that URL and perhaps save it to that location for another hour.
Or show a message like what Flask's logo does when you right-click it the first time [0]. e.g. "Note: Direct linking will not work. This image will disappear from our servers in an hour." (Possibly with "Click here to post to Twitter instead," which can help "persist" an image while spreading the site a bit further in the process.)
TV, movies, and games are forms of entertainment. Advertising is a form of manipulation.
Sure, the lines can be blurred, so we do our best to filter out the bad intentions.
Modern advertising seems to become more effective as well. I never anticipated a defense of ads, but I've actually been criticized by visiting relatives for keeping commercials out of reach of our family. We're "out of the loop" now, unable to relate to a joke or situation delivered by commercial. And around holidays and birthdays, we get asked "How do your kids even know what they want without commercials?"
There's an excellent YouTube channel called The Bible Project that breaks down each book in the Bible, explores recurring themes, and explains the original meaning of certain translated words. Their Ecclesiastes videos is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUiuSK81-0
This way of thinking was my main motivation behind Grip [0]. Use Readme-driven development and "play" with the API--whether it's in the form of a CLI, a library, or web API-- through usage examples.
I've found this to be a wonderful way to get into the heads of dev users before you approach them directly.
I don't have the experience to dispute this, but the top comment on Hacker News a while back suggests the article is mostly fear/uncertainty/doubt. The author doesn't seem back up any of their claims with enough technical detail.
So I occasionally find myself looking up a dependency's version after visiting its GitHub page. I built this to help instead of clicking and searching while juggling other thoughts. (At least until GitHub does this kind of thing natively. I'd be happy to have this become redundant.)
