The Shift You Didn’t Realize Was Happening
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Why we’re moving from polished perfection to raw authenticity in art, filmmaking, and storytelling - and why it resonates with us now more than ever.
Soundtrack in the end:
"Tank but it's Lofi" - Palademix
“This isn't the end of creativity. It's the beginning of a new chapter.”
Nothing is new, you fool
I think the best way to stick out from AI and corporate slop is to be imperfectly perfect
human
The irony is that the video is using an AI voiceover. And maybe even AI generated script, but not sure. You can hear it by going to the previous videos on this channel and listen to the robot voice. Or listen at 7:19, when the AI forgets all context and pronounces the world "polish" (smooth & shiny) as "Polish" (from Poland)
@@alexg8510 oh shit. i haven't gotten to that part of the video yet and he sounded just like a regular youtuber to me. good catch
Perfectionist is a made up concept 🎯
Human art is for humans. AI will probably create its own expression. The craft of visual expression is the one that is being devoared by AI, so its true that AI will take jobs in the field, and probably marketing will finally get what they craved for years, formulaic entertaiment with the sole porpouse of Making money(AI is not responsable for the souless pieces we already got in this century). But the visual expression of cinema art will live, and it will probably use AI sometimes as part of its corpus, Art is not in jeopardy, the humans are, lets focus on that, there is no turning back from the automation of the audiovisual machine
"If everything is loud, in the end, nothing is loud." - Ironically James Cameron.
You'll learn the horrors of war from those who do go to war. It's not ironical at all.
“If everyone’s super, no one is”
you precisely expressed the feelings I get in my own art , and why I'm choosing to be imperfect in my own personal art , well done!
honestly same. i worked hard to make my drawings photorealistic only to relise i wanted something more real, that stylises reality instead of copying it
I’ll use this narrative, but in reality I just suck at art
For sure me toooo, I’m getting ready to start making a short film, and as much of a perfectionist as I am I can use that to my advantage by throwing in surrealism, switching things around and popping out
Same here!! I’m absolutely of the same feeling. Started embracing how film looks, old cameras, just vlogging on a phone
careful mate i think there's a difference between being unable to achieve "perfection" in art and really choosing to be imperfect
Everyone... I've been so depressed about AI art. I've made the least amount of art I've ever made in my life because I feel like I have no value or future. Being creative made me feel like I had something unique or special to offer. Now it feels like anyone can get it better and for free. I used to make event posters. Now every other event I see has an AI poster. @Lofi Cinema, this video made me feel a little better. Thank you...
Well right now AI is garbage so at least in the future it will seem more impressive, but we will all be dead of course since we are old outdated models. Sigh welp see ya laters peoples!
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@@Xinjiekou_新街口_Station Oh Jesus no he actually 🩸did it
things will get better, soon AI will be so good, that youll at least not need to work and will have time to reflect and find a way to go about things. Some bad comes with the good, and that can feel daunting but we always come out stronger
There will always be a place for human made art, you just have to know where to look. Art has been mass produced for a long time. Before this era of AI art you could go to a department store and pickup a massive piece of art for your living room and its a computer printed print of some sunflowers with a few brush strokes of paint added to give it depth and make it feel handmade. Your job as an artist has become more difficult but not obsolete. Keep making art, fuck ai art!
Just do your thing, dude. If you spent your whole life becoming an artist and AI can make art feel more alive than you can, that sounds like an issue with your technique. Stand out. I don’t worry about AI making better music than I can because it lacks the soul, the lived experience. Plus, I will always have imperfections. I’m human, as far as anyone else can tell, anyway 😉
Having to assign monetary value to what we love to do is the real issue here. Let us be, let us exist, and the cream will rise to the top.
I feel like gaming is going in a similar direction. Games for the last 30+ years have been trying to achieve realism, but if every game tries to recreate reality, them every game will also look the same. Plus, once we've achieved realism in gaming, then what? That's why games with a more unique artstyle tend to have more long-lasting impact.
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Do you think Indie games will become popular in future ?
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I feel theres gonna be an indie and possibly AAA revolution later this decade. I've never wishlisted games as much as this era rn
it’s already happening just look at 2024 the best games were indie. animation is going the same way as well look at Spiderverse look at the wild robot.
i didnt expect to come away from this video feeling so optimistic about the future of art and cinema, but i do. we have faced this sort of thing before, with great success.
life is cyclical. history doesnt repeat, it rhymes
"Perfection no longer feels exceptional." You’ve captured something I’ve been talking about with friends for some time and gave me some new perspective on this shift we’re currently experiencing. Well done.
I love the Hey Now/That Guy beat underneath impressionists paintings
I don't think the dilemma is with AI. It is with people.
Filmmaking used to be something exclusive, but now anyone can do it with their phones, and in a way social media is replacing filmmaking as an entertainment. There is the push that will drive filmmaking to a different stage
Thanks for this!
I’ve tried to force myself to become „a good artist“ in my late teens and early twenties and got completely burned out and lost all sight of what I wanted to do in the first place: have fun. At that time drawing and painting were a huge part of who I was. I struggled a lot with other stuff as well at that time.
I haven’t drawn or painted much for quite some years now but dream about picking up the brush again, without worrying so much about technique or how others might view my work.
Very insightful, I love this perspective on where we could be headed
I love this video because as a solo recording musician I've found myself improvising more and more in songs instead of writing any of the parts. Sometimes, and in fact most of the time, it doesn't work out as a whole piece. More often I find the beauty in them comes from when those happy accidents happen and you end up with a piece that has it's own personality versus me trying to pain-stakingly analyze what I could do and in-turn making things over thought and simple.
Thanks for this video!
This video is such a great example of the importance of art history. Thanks for giving me a lot to think about
This vid is gonna blow in the algorithms of your future cause is a pure mirror of what's to come and nobody can deny it. Inmortal time window indeed
people arent as stupid as you. most already know this
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I actually first noticed this with dialogue. A lot of creators - especially indie creators - nowadays are no longer writing and recording sentences that sound perfect, many are instead trying to capture the essence of a genuine conversation. Smiling Friends is a prime example of this.
this is the exact reason as to why I plan to make memory vlogs/videos when I begin uni but shoot it with my family old ass sony camera, found it again recently and there's everything from when I was 6/7. Make the present feel like it still has that magic
I love how you've literally used the basic text with the standard settings like font, position, size, etc. Just adds more to the idea of "we're moving to simplification"
Thank you for this. This is what I need from art now more than ever.
My only critique is that the rewind and fast forward sound effects were too loud in my headphones.
Great channel. I’m subscribing. Thank you.
I've been saying this since people started freaking out about the Sora demos. This will liberate the artform. Here are two quotes that I think are relevant to your video:
"Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness. Painting was forced, as it turned out, to offer us illusion and this illusion was reckoned sufficient unto art." - Andre Bazin
"AI has never been hungover." - Steven Soderbergh
hey now playing over Impressionism brought the biggest smile to my face!! Great corollary to photography+impressionism and the accompanying cultural shift
Beautifully scripted and structured video. As a UA-camr myself this is a perfect video that isn’t outwardly annoying but perfectly griping enough to keep you watching because it’s presented in a genuinely interesting way.
Beautifully said. Thought-provoking instead of damning
Great video! Thanks. I've been making shorts for the past year and I you just articulated something I've been thinking about a lot lately: in a plastic world, people want yearning for something organic.
7:21 over Polish??? is the narration AI??
I think so what made think that is this weird pause and and the “um” at 5:36
@jazz_monkey you're so right lol
I noticed that too, kind of ruined the whole thing for me 😭 and regardless, AI is being severely underestimated in this video. AI might not capture heart and soul right now, but at its current rate give it a few years and it will write better stories too than we ever could.
@@ma-scalia8629 I don't think that's true. If written by AI, its merit would be nullified.
@ I hope so but it’s already at the point where it’s hard to tell with music and pictures, and some video. Imagine a few more years you most likely won’t even be able to tell.
i didn’t realise how much I needed this video until it finished, thank u
Incredible video man, I had trouble being hopeful around the future of creativity and this is exactly what i needed
i was like, this is going to be about impressionism, and it was, great video
Love this take! Totally agree, in my own art I embrace the handmade feel intentionally because I know AI can do it perfect.
The irony is that the video is using an AI voiceover. And maybe even AI generated script, but not sure. You can hear it by going to the previous videos on this channel and listen to the robot voice. Or listen at 7:19, when the AI forgets all context and pronounces the world "polish" (smooth & shiny) as "Polish" (from Poland)
I love this video. This is some very intuitive information presented in an extremely digestible way. I am thoroughly inspired. ❤
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I've just learned impressionism like a month ago and this makes me curious about what experimental artstyle we will have in the future
Totally agree with this! It’s crazy cuz I made a video essay covering this exact topic a couple months ago, unpolished work is so much cooler to me nowadays.
Exciting to see what people will create with just their phones
Brilliant video, glad to see I'm not the only one with these thoughts
I’m a student filmmaker and this is something I really appreciate about experimental film. It works around creative limitations and plays more with moods, colours and abstract shots
This is the most optimistic I’ve felt about AI and the future of art in a while haha, thank you for making this!
Beautiful video man. You reeled me in, held my attention, and delivered such a clear message :)
This perfectly sums up what I’ve been noticing for a while. When i’m on TikTok for example, the edits that stick with me the most aren’t the most polished things, and it seems that I gravitate towards more vintage and imperfect stuff.
This was super motivating and insightful dude. Your gonna go far with this kind of quality!
This video was like a breath of fresh air really, keep it up!!
your channel will blow up. great storytelling!
hell of a video. loved the hopeful message and incorporation of art history.
Great work! The idea and topic are truly interesting, and your professionalism really shines through. I absolutely agree with this perspective! 👌
Fantastic video, really gave me a new perspective! Feels like an accurate prediction
i grew up watching a lot of 80s and 90s movies, and some of my favorite looks are things like pulp fiction, full metal jacket, and the shawshank redemption
as a wannabe director myself, ive always had a few movies in mind that would use the technology from back then to stylize my films to look like those examples, and after watching this excellently constructed video, i wouldnt be surprised if more people didnt start to do the same.
As a fan of impressionism (and expressionism), this is great news.
what an awesome video dude. thank you for this!
Fantastic video, very encouraging!
I always want to be perfect with my art which causes me stress to finish it on time but want to be perfect which is time consuming. I have to learn more that mistakes are just an artist touch and a reminder that a human has made it
i think the safdie brothers are doing this really well with movies like good time and uncut gems
laughing at the fact you put the hey now/that guy instrumental in the background. A+ in video essays
I love Tangerine. Great film, genuinely funny. I honestly don't hear people talking about.
Best and most inspiring video I’ve seen in a while, this is great
I was thinking about this the other day, literally everything you said in this video. Thank you
Every frame a painting…Toni‘s back :)
Concordo completamente! É uma das coisas que tento aplicar no meu próprio conteúdo, usar da minha limitação técnica para criar algo autêntico e pessoal. O youtube mesmo passa por isso, à medida que os canais se tornam cada vez mais profissionais e produzidos, muitos espectadores começam a não mais ver a autenticidade daquele conteúdo, sentindo falta da "Estética youtube", que no princípio era marcada por essa imperfeição mesmo.
Tyler's album revolved around the idea of taking the mask off, or being real. I think the music video is about as literal as it can get for you to "take the mask off". No fancy cameras, no lighting, storyboarding, fancy editing, just a raw, Iphone shot, handheld music video.
the perfection of cinema/media + disorientation of society makes us crave creative chaos + rough beauty w/ intent to find harmony in our lives
Yoo!! the Hey Now beat on this so goddamn satisfying
Been leaning into a more DIY feel for a long time, the rise of AI just solidfies it, with the likes of Tyler etc taking lo-fi looks but doing it in a more thought out way vs just grabbing a cam and filming, i think we will have a new gen of more intresting visual archives
The irony is that the video is using an AI voiceover. And maybe even AI generated script, but not sure. You can hear it by going to the previous videos on this channel and listen to the robot voice. Or listen at 7:19, when the AI forgets all context and pronounces the world "polish" (smooth & shiny) as "Polish" (from Poland)
what an amazing video and very interesting takes on some subjects. Great job!
ohh.. as an artist, this gave me alot of hope. for a while ive been distraught about A.I, and how everyone (mostly non-artists) is so excited about it, but this gave me the hope that art is not over, and it won't be for a long, long time. thank you for making this video, art lasts for eternity!!
this video loses all meaning when you realize it was recorded with an AI voiceover
How can you tell? I can't 😮
This relieved the dread of ai destroying art, thank you (edit: realising that this narration is ai has me very conflicted)
was wondering if anyone else noticed this
I'm not worried about ai destroying art. I'm worried about ai destroying creative industries and the environment. Art will always be okay; humans will always be pushing creative boundaries.
Yes!! I'm so happy someone else noticed this! This is the new normal. A very, very large portion of narrated youtube videos are narrated with AI. And yet, people only rarely notice. It's super ironic, there will be a literal AI narrator talking about how AI is ruining things and the comment section doesn't even realize.
i think there will naturally be an audience for the entire gamut of image making and storytelling out there, but when it comes to what you want to express this is a solid invitiation to think with intention, explore the tools and ways you want to tell a story. designers make choices, be aware of how easy it is to rely on defaults: "needs to be narrative, needs a 6k camera, needs a big crew and budget etc"
Loved this! Makes me hopeful for the future of cinema!
I've been drawn to watching youtube videos from creators who shoot low-res vlogs on the fly, just recording their days and whatever they feel like speaking about at the moment. I haven't given much thought to why I enjoy them so much but now I'm thinking it's got something to do with this current wave of creating we're experiencing. and I want in
Very well done and something I've thought about for most of the past year. Great job
Well written. We also saw an increase in "raw" footage demand when live-streaming was invented. The similarity of photographs to AI is well put. I am excited for the artistic expression it will help create in those who previously couldn't or wouldn't create and for those already creating.
I absolutely loved this video. I usually have a really hard time focusing on these kinds of videos but this one really interested me because I've been noticing this shift in the ASMR community and you described it perfectly. A lot of creators making "lofi asmr" with lower quality equipment are getting much more views than the ones that have the "pro" equipment, the cinematic quality and all that stuff. And I also have been getting a lot of people in my recommendeds like the guy you showed who got millions of views just by talking about life. I am very happy with this shift to be honest. I know reality/life is extremely intelligent and will keep evolving no matter how messed up the AI becomes
Great video. Love the impressionist comparison
music videos have been like this in the underground for a while lol
this guy knows whats he's talking about. u got my subs.
Thank you for making this bro i think abt the history of art a lot and was thinking the same thing genuinely am thankful for this video bro
Thank you for this i was feeling hopeless since i dream of going into a career in art but this reminded me that in the end ai is just a mochine it can never resonate with humans and humans cannot resonate with it
That's a good content, man. Nice writing and research. Thank you, and keep it coming!
People are great at solving problems but the solution always creates new problems. It’s a constant cycle of patching, running, finding errors, and patching again
human brain likes this game. Makes him tickle
That cowboy bebop outro was too good
This reminds me of when I make music. I'll try to make something that sounds like my inspirations and then burn myself out more easily. Then I just make a beat in my own way, out of feeling and it's way more fun to make. Making something that's made in my way comes out better, personally.
"Dog Me 95" - that made me chuckle.
great video, cool insight. Thanks for making this, looking forward to watching more
Great piece, man.
Awesome!! Much love from Brazil
oh wow that's a really good video, being an artist myself, it helped me look at things in a new perspective
Прекрасное и интересное видео! Спасибо!
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I think this is why someone like Wes Anderson stands out so much. He has UTTER polish and it loses none of the soul and never will.
5:58 EXACTLY what i was thinking. when you were talking about photography i was like "this seems exactly like what's happening with AI right now"
picture the "first time?" meme, and james franco is the artists, and the old man is the film makers.
the video I needed to see! Thank you so much!
Mind shifting video really great thank you!
Really great writing dude this video feels super tight
Great video. Inspiring.
cool video, props to the editor/writer
Totally agree! We make image for feelings not perfections
Film student here! I love the angle you are coming from! This video really inspired me to go out and create and stand up for my work! Thanks buddy
and also an addition to your video, have you guys realized how retro cameras no matter if 35mm or super 8 video formats are getting more and more hype?
There is something to it
I wouldn't be surprised if VHS makes a comeback too :)
Great video
First time I've heard Van Gogh pronounced as Goke 😂
now this is gold....❤🔥
And then there's people like Wes Anderson who throw a wrench in the mix, seemingly aiming for perfection and technical detail, but still somehow unmistakably human and endearing
going to watch this tonight. if its as good as i think it is, then sean needs another great feature and he might take my fav director spot from robert eggers lmao
Really brilliant video 👏👏
I’ve been taking this approach to my gaming videos I post every day!