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I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

"So far, the investment has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views." More from @nataliekorach.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/washington...

If I had brought this bland-ass footage to my editor she would have been shocked and told me to reshoot. There are windows and walls more interesting than these literally 20 feet away in the same room. I can only assume the videographer hates their fucking guts.

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My high school film & broadcasting kids would never have submitted this package - unless it was a spoof, accompanied by the Benny Hill theme & even then *shakes head in dismay*.

the second they showed up for taping, before they even sat down on the couch, I would've made one or three of them put on blazers. this looks like fucken synchronized swimming.

how did THREE of them show up in grey pants. THREE. What is going on in my demographic of media personality in DC, homeboys need a lotta help.

“I don’t know what to do with my arms, does this look natural on camera?” “Nailed it in one boss, don’t change anything” “Really, just hang my hands limply like this?” “PERFECT”

Often, those who don’t know how cameras and lighting work, always want windows but for me, windows are always a problem. But this is only one issue here for sure

btw this is the share image for the video -- a decade-old "triggered feminist" incel meme based on a screengrab of a non-public figure having a respectful conversation with a conservative

Also there is already a verified creator called "Make It Make Sense" on Youtube with 220K subscribers! I literally put "make it make sense washington post" in the YT search bar and it didn't come up. The only way I found it was the link in @nataliekorach.bsky.social's story. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

Also the credits are blank? Either the video staff who made this are too young and experienced to know they should be credited for their work, or Adam O’Neal is too stupid to know that video staff leaving it blank is an insult to him, the equivalent of having your byline taken off a story.