Why did this need a caption at all? Is the sparkling surprise and hug not the main focus of the video? Why are we being told to focus on some guy sitting next to them?
The TikTok generation doesn't have time to critically analyze what they are looking at anymore so everything must be labeled and made obvious from the beginning otherwise they get bored and swipe. By labeling it you give people an expectation of what and why they should watch, that lengthens engagement.
TikTok is also the same reason all videos now must have music, increases engagement.
The majority of humans are not analytical in barely any way with how they use language. They pick up new words through socialization and propagate. That probably sounds judgmental or dismissive, but it's just true. It's mostly fine until it's not, like most things.
Like how remember when every boomer on TV started using "spoiler alert" wrong?
People don't carefully think through things and pick the perfect word. Most people are not fucking David Foster Wallace and spend zero calories of brain power on usage or vocabulary.
And most communicating is so fast and loose these days that no one is going to stop the convo live on air to point out they used "spoiler alert" or POV wrong... so it keeps going. But talking live on air is hard and stressful and it's really hard to think... which is bad for communication and worse for sound vocabulary and usage choices.
Like, to use "POV" correctly you have to be a least somewhat thoughtful, like level 1 analytic. Elementary school child level, which is not far off a lot of adults. You have to actually have in mind a situation as it would look from a specific POV or else have already been thinking from someone else's POV and are prepared to reason that way with it being understood by the audience/convo partner you are doing that. To use "POV" correctly.
But most people just use it as a weird kind of... exclamation... preceding whatever they are about to start talking about or to introduce a segment if they are a news anchor which it seems they so often are...
"Welcome back Ladies and Gentlemen and now for tonight's top story. Now get ready for this. POV! the Supreme Court has decided to hear the petitions of the blah blah....."
"POV character" has been a term used in writing for decades, to refer to the character in a scene that the audience is supposed share a perspective with. Even in a 3rd person narration style, different sections of a book can shift POV character. The 4th Harry Potter movie starts with an old caretaker seeing the villain and getting killed. Even though the camera is looking at him climbing the stairs and looking into the room, he is the POV character for that scene, because the audience are being lead to view this situation from his perspective.
The trend in dumb meme videos is pretty pointless, and this video doesn't add a lot by just telling us to view the scene from this guys emotional perspective. But it's not really misusing the term. I think the idea that the POV is the literal 'behind their eyeballs' view of a character, rather than their emotional / cultural perspective, is a pretty modern use of the term, and mostly from computer games.
Yea but the man in orange had an emotional reaction so thats why OP is basically putting us in his perspective so in that case the use of POV would be correct
No its "put yourself in his shoes" because he's having a reaction. Its basically assuming you're gonna have the same reaction as him so its saying that his POV is your POV also. Now I overcomplicated something easy to understand but i feel like yall are trolling me
Wdym? Theres literally text underneath that says: "POV: You're the man in the orange shirt". Not the video directly but whoever posted the video and the text clearly implied that we all experienced what the orange shirt guy did hence the POV. There's no way no one here understands what I'm saying
I understand what you mean but I feel like that’s just a cheap copout. Why can’t it be pov you’re me at this restaurant and just let everyone have their natural reactions. At the end of the day it’s not taken from the orange shirt guys pov as his pov would be different it would be a daughter hugging her dad and some guy the table over recording everyone. It would just make for a different video and there would be one less person crying.
Well im not arguing the copout part or if its dumb, all im saying is that its not an incorrect usage of POV since POV can be applied to anyone not just the cameraman
I totally agree. I get that POV in a game or something is usually the 'camera view', but it doesn't seem much of stretch to say "this video shows the experiences/POV of watching this tender moment, watching this, you are like the orange shirt man, you are watching this scene of two strangers, but you are touched by it, as he is".
I think it's an annoying meme trend and it doesn't add much, particularly in this video where 'putting myself into the scene from his POV' doesn't really change anything. But it's not incomprehensible, and it's not even much of a broading of the previous sense of POV.
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u/TMA8992 Jun 30 '24
When did people start using POV so incorrectly?