Times like this, I wouldn’t mind seeing a variation with Orangecat as a raccoon, instead of a cat.

Don’t forget loads of salt!

Like-- every step of the way, fast food places have an opportunity to aim for ‘healthier’ or ‘more delicious’ choices, overwhelmingly with profit-making in mind. That’s the main thing to keep in mind.

IIRC, McD’s and various other chains even design venting and such to get the smell of the cooking food (chemically enhanced) in to the surrounding area. You know, so that more people can pay a fortune to get a food rush that doubles as a health disaster.

Thanks, AI slop.

Would it help if I slammed it EXTRA-HARD, my lil’ cutey…?

Obviously S&G had nothing of the sort, it didnt exist at the time.

Of course it did. Just as I referred to as “manual-tune” in my original comment. George Martin was FAMOUS for that stuff, but I tend to think he wasn’t the first.

Me, I like people who can make brave, interesting points in life, but I also don’t value much people who have no idea WTF they’re talking about, literally without a shred of evidence to back up their nonsense.

Older people (30+)

LOLolol…

I mean, you’re kind of lifting my point in to a broader area that I wasn’t speaking to at the time.

Of course I agree with all that you said. But I was talking strictly in the context of OP’s framework.

You’ve made no real case that it’s used in any significant way upon any significant music I know of.

Used on modern pop? Of course it is. All over the place. Which is like saying that fast food and cold cuts contain a bunch of artificial stuff that enhances shelf life, flavor. We all know that, and most people know that fast food and cold cuts are the very bottom tier of food, despite the brief rush.

You can bet your bippy that Simon & Garfunkel never needed no auto-tune gimmicks to perform “The Sound of Silence.” Altho extra orchestration indeed helped.

Huh! Now do we have a Kurzgesagt-style video or something exampling how this rich soup led to… you know?

You haven’t heard a song NOT using it since at least 1998.

I have a very hard time believing that, unless of course sound engineers have been doing “manual-tune” for ages and ages (see below). Regardless, loads of singers who perform in front of others clearly have the ability to sing a song in a variety of ways depending on mood, venue, audience, occasion, etc. In short-- good singers REALLY ARE that talented, generally with excellent pitch, and don’t need assistance in something as basic as singing notes close enough to pitch-perfect without the need to be absolutely perfect.

Just look at how improv singers can do so well, or people performing in front of judges, or opera and opera-style singers performing in concert halls, like Charlotte Church.

I would guess the one argument of yours that holds some water is with flawed singers who are otherwise good, but have chronic problems hitting close-enough pitch, or really good singers trying to perform songs slightly outside of their range. Stuff like that…

Sure, just like the Blazing Saddles scene.

In reality, they do most of their talking via pheromones, almost like a form of telepathy.

Or maybe it’s the Six-Million-Dollar Pug taking a flying leap, with slow-motion effect.

One seemingly enormous difference is that YT is a for-profit platform owned by a huge business (Google), not a decentralised network run by many small volunteers. FWIW.

I don’t have strong feelings either way, but money does touch everything, overtly or not, when it comes to civilisation. Time spent volunteering on Fediverse projects is effectively money spent (at least to some degree), and instances cost time & fees to maintain.

But I guess to argue against myself-- you have to think that without some kind of ongoing responsible oversight, then the worst aspects of capitalism might predictably find a way to screw it all up if left to its own devices. Then again, maybe the scale involved makes that less likely. *shrug*

Couple simple ones, but maybe not as known as they could be:

• Mouse gestures: right-click and draw very simple line patterns to issue dozens of various browser commands.
• Search by Image: convenient shortcut to reverse-image search via up to 8 different useful services.
• uMatrix: security plugin that lets me specifically block / enable javascripts for any site across 8 different categories of functionality. Sort of like an ad-blocker wielding a scalpel, it lets me enable just enough to allow me to reap a site’s goodness, while automatically shutting down any other fringe stuff it may want to do.

I’ll just do my Joey Lawrence impression and say: whoa… whoa… WOAH!

Actually I’ve seen some people who could make all these sounds using just their own voices. I guess the yolks on us if he wasn’t actually using the kazoo(!)

“Then go ahead and use your flappers, lad…!”

My god.

Thank you, and here’s a serious warning never to get old!

“Music… I don’t like music.”
–Bill McNeal (Newsradio)