I want those 12 seconds of my life back.
Imagine a low- budget, poorly groomed disc jockey attempting to make the switch from radio personality to television personality. The outcome is indubious. Absolute failure is certain. The premise of the 12seconds.tv site is simple: record a 12 second video of yourself and upload it for the world.
After spending 12 minutes watching 12 second videos, I began to feel extremely woozy. Most videos resemble people staring into their bathroom mirrors rambling incoherent nonsense. I am convinced that most people on the site think their videos are entertaining and provide a great amount of redeemable value.
Those people are wrong.
Only a small percentage of the human population have something awe-inspiring to say. Well, that’s not entirely true, but few people can convey such a message in such a short time. And maybe awe inspiring is too large a task, but most people lack the 12 second wow factor; that is why small talk sucks.
Let’s take me for example. As much as my acting abilities favor those of Terrence Howard, if I’m alloted twelves seconds to attempt to record something meaningful, witty, or insightul, I’m going to end up looking more like Eddie Murphy in Meet Dave or Shaq in Kazaam.
I know my limits.
The only entertaining feature on the site is the 12second challenge. But I would much rather respond through the text based site, Plinky.
Final thought: 12seconds here and there, throughout the day, over the course of the year, easily turns into several days worth of nothingness, and I would rather be doing “something” other than all the nothing that is going on at 12seconds.tv.
