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Starfleet Academy Official Trailer

That's the point. Go to youtube. Find an official SA trailer without the comments turned off. Read them. Almost all the "engagement" is trolling.

That's the reaction Paramount is getting to their show, made for the same people writing all those comments.

The only question is: will it be what everyone already expects, or will it surprise?
I think that's just called 'YouTube". :lol:
 
Not necessarily. Look at the comments under Oppenheimer for example. Or Avatar 2. Or Arrival.

No trolling whatsoever.
Never read the comments.
Oh, I've "trolled" both Avatar films, just not on YouTube.
Oppenheimer and Arrival are very different animals that any Trek show. ( or TV show in general). Not sure what is trying be proven here. Trolling is the default response to just about any Trek show. My friend group was "trolling" TNG back in the Eighties, before we had seen a single frame. We mocked the character names and anything else we could find. Other fans were more vicious,
 
Never read the comments.
Oh, I've "trolled" both Avatar films, just not on YouTube.
Oppenheimer and Arrival are very different animals that any Trek show. ( or TV show in general). Not sure what is trying be proven here. Trolling is the default response to just about any Trek show. My friend group was "trolling" TNG back in the Eighties, before we had seen a single frame. We mocked the character names and anything else we could find. Other fans were more vicious,
Indeed. Hell, I got made fun of by other Trek fans for liking TOS. Trolling Star Trek is how people show fan status I guess.
 
Paramount wants engagement.
Then why turn off comments?
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They left the comments open on the teaser released 4 months ago and got trolled hard. This one they posted last month with comments off. The obvious answer is yes they want engagement but only positive engagement, and they knew they weren't going to get it.

It don't care about random YouTube comments despite the Zoomer belief that YT is life.
The same memes show up on YouTube, TikTok, X, Reddit, and in forum threads like this one. Its not just a YT thing.
 
The same memes show up on YouTube, TikTok, X, Reddit, and in forum threads like this one. Its not just a YT thing.
Hopefully better memes than "Star Trek 90210". That was old the first time "Starfleet Academy" was floated back in the Bennett Era.
 
Youtube is not "their platform". It's "their channel" on the platform. Is that your argument? The reason why they turned off comments is because they can?
No. They want people to watch on their platform.

All the views just show potential viewers. That's it.


already answered why.
Not really. The only way Paramount will care is if people don't actually watch. But, the people who have made a living off of clicks and hate and negative attention will still watch despite the invectives thrown at Paramount.

Stop engaging and the bad Paramount man will go away. But no one will actually do that.
 
But, the people who have made a living off of clicks and hate and negative attention will still watch despite the invectives thrown at Paramount.
True.

Not sure how big the NuTrek audience is compared to what it used to be though. My guess is smaller. And younger. Which is why Paramount should be concerned when that younger audience trashes its trailers.
 
True.

Not sure how big the NuTrek audience is compared to what it used to be though. My guess is smaller. And younger. Which is why Paramount should be concerned when that younger audience trashes its trailers.
It really shouldn't.

It should only be concerned if people don't watch.
 
They got "age stamps" on these social media comments? :lol:
In a way, yes.

Tone and phrasing can be dead giveaways, as are the use of reddit and commenting on YouTube videos, both skew strongly Gen Z/Millennial. TikTok even moreso.

But given there are people here who would challenge the use of "zoomie" to refer to gen z, reading tone or inferring age based on phrasing may prove challenging. ;)
 
But given there are people here who would challenge the use of "zoomie" to refer to gen z, reading tone or inferring age based on phrasing may prove challenging. ;)
Maybe if you provide a link to a non-Ai generated reference to Zoomers being aka Zoomies that would shut them up?
 
In a way, yes.

Tone and phrasing can be dead giveaways, as are the use of reddit and commenting on YouTube videos, both skew strongly Gen Z/Millennial. TikTok even moreso.

But given there are people here who would challenge the use of "zoomie" to refer to gen z, reading tone or inferring age based on phrasing may prove challenging. ;)
Depends on the channel. I'm willing to bet people commenting on Star Trek skew older. Just like the folks commenting on music reactions when the music is "oldies". Of course millennials are in their thirties and forties. They're Grumps! :lol:
 
Maybe if you provide a link to a non-Ai generated reference to Zoomers being aka Zoomies that would shut them up?
Should I provide an Oxford Dictionary reference?

Are doomscrolling or lolcows defined in it yet?

"How internet language evolves, for boomies. Volume 1."
 
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