A Trend That I Hate : Fake Video Dirt

[Hornbein]

I hate videos that have fake screen dirt. That is, they pretend to be a pre-digital film print that has accumulated dirt. It's obviously fake. Somehow this style has become hip and with it, so they seem to be in a race to see who can pack the most dirt on the screen. Disgusting.

I dunno, maybe they did it to avoid copyright. But now it is so hip and with-it this may be used even on original content. Barf. Well, I don't have to watch it. So I don't.

 

[BillTre]

Its an effect you can add to videos.

 

[sbrothy]

It's a little like bad holographic images in scifi movies. I understand why it's done. Still, it's jarring.

 

[Hornbein]

It's usually on AI generated videos. My theory is that the AI companies add this stuff to uglify the free version and the video producers are too cheap to pay to have it disabled. Sometimes it's so bad it looks like leprosy.