Momentum

Malpe trees & everything inbetween.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION’ is the most expensive movie of all time.

Recent filings revealed the film cost $658.8M to make, surpassing ‘THE FORCE AWAKENS’ ($638.9M).

(Source: https://t.co/6fuTj2ZI2V)

[Momentum @malpedress]

@AviBittMD Yeah the MOU phase is really where there could be a big turn for the better

WRT the counterfactual, if it goes based on how it looks likely to go, is the no-war scenario better per your values? Like taking into account IRGC degradation, IRGC increased control over the Strait etc

[Momentum @malpedress]

@AviBittMD What about overall?

[Ultima @UltimaShadowX]

Today is the last day Kane Parsons will be 20, he will be the first person ever to be 21 tomorrow.

[lip predictions @lippredicts]

imagine being independently owned and Apple Music calls on YOU to reveal their most streamed artists. chartdata will always be the standard

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

If it's any consolation, the path I chose (voting for a madman) is a path where I myself will get burned from time to time. I guess this is one of those times, huh? Well there's at least some schadenfreude for you in that.

So in the spirit of keeping things organized, here is a post where you can tell me how I fell for it again, I should have known better, how I voted for this™, and all the other sorts of schadenfreude things you'd like to extract from me.

Don't hold back!

[Momentum @malpedress]

@AviBittMD If it goes based on how it looks like it's going to go, would you consider the Iran war a failure?

[Nate Curtiss @natecurtiss_yt]

YouTube is rolling out a crazy new update this year.

YouTube is rolling out Shows, and it changes how your content sits on your channel.

Here is what it does and why the channels that ignore it lose a year of watch timeL

A playlist groups a batch of videos together with no structure. A viewer who wanted to follow your series in order had to search through the list themselves. YouTube admits this was cumbersome.

Shows fix it. You convert a playlist into a show, your videos become numbered episodes inside seasons, and YouTube builds a full show page with the artwork you upload. Then it recommends that show across the app.

This was built for the TV, not your phone.
TV is the fastest growing place people watch YouTube, and the old channel layout never matched how people watch on a TV.

For many people, especially young viewers, YouTube already is TV. The connected TV experience never reflected that. Revenue from TV viewing jumped 30 percent in one year. Shows copy the layout people already know from Netflix and Prime. Finish one episode and the next plays automatically.

The Continue watching row holds their place. That is how one viewer becomes a full season of watch time instead of a single view.

YouTube copied this from the streaming services on its own platform.

The show pages you are about to get are the same ones YouTube built for Paramount+ and Showtime.

YouTube built these show pages for PrimeTime Channels, its paid streaming bundle inside the app.

Their product lead said they realized they should bring the same product to channels, because so many channels already make high quality shows. So you get the same page a paid streaming service gets, for free, on your own channel.

YouTube is not making the shows. You are.
YouTube shut down its own studio and handed the entire opportunity to channels.

YouTube Originals launched in 2015, greenlit Cobra Kai in 2018, lost the show to Netflix in 2020, and shut down in 2022. YouTube now says it has no plans to restart it.

Their words: their expertise is helping others create and distribute, not making the media themselves. That is the whole point. YouTube will not compete with you for the slot. It will promote you into it. The placement is open to channels now.

Set this up now or hand the placement to someone else
The channels that build shows this year get the recommended placement. The rest stay a list of separate videos nobody finishes.

Pick serial when people watch your story in order. Pick non-serial when people drop into a topic anywhere.

Upload real artwork, the texted poster, the backdrop, and the title treatment, because YouTube puts that art on browse pages across the app. Number your seasons.

Design thumbnails that read on a 55 inch screen, not just a phone. Do this before your competitors do, because the early shows get the recommendations.

[A24 @A24]

Kane Parsons is 21 years old.

[Momentum @malpedress]

@Rory_Johnston @Nonfon420 here

[Momentum @malpedress]

@blassicliberal This was so funny

[Benjamin Luk @benjaminluk]

This is Zach Cregger’s approach to first drafts as a screenwriter. It’s called “elfing”. He’s right. ✍🏼

[Jordan A. Hayles @MR_STiXX]

No AI necessary 👌🏿

[realtopG @realdripking_zw]

If im lyin Im flyin economy I bet I know who I see…Drake never miss mane😂🐐

[🕸️ @recreatings]

this gotta be the most unpredictable edit i’ve seen 😭🔥

[. @wydlamar]

Duke Dennis says him applying to Kai Cenat’s streamer university is breaking his No 1 rule “don’t ask to go if you ain’t invited” 😭🥀

“I ain’t gone lie bro, if you wasn’t invited don’t go, who would I be to not follow my own advice though, applying is literally asking to go”

[Hip Hop All Day @HipHopAllDay]

Baby Keem says he wants to be one of the greatest artists of all-time, and not just a part of hip hop's next 'Big 3' 👀

"I don't want to be the best of the weakest, I want to be the best of the best. And that should be the mentality of everybody coming up."

[Rizpy @RizpyYoutube]

My Offical Streamer University 2026 Application