But most often used on Hexbear as either an equivalent to eric-andre OR to make fun of someone for speaking their very dumb truth OR thanks to the layers of irony that everything on Hexbear has to actually express admiration for the view a person has stated.

~or~ ~just~ ~that~ ~it'd~ ~be~ ~funny~ ~to~ ~imagine~ ~the~ ~guy~ ~in~ ~the~ ~picture~ ~saying~ ~that~

It's all about context. In this case, if someone stole the floor at a town hall to announce that "whoever first created autoplaying videos should be impaled" most people would definitely look at them confused and a bit appalled but we'd probably applaud it.

Oh and for broader internet meme lore: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/freedom-of-speech-norman-rockwell-painting

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

I have no idea, it's of some libertarian guy talking at a hearing about uh, school funding? Idk how to get emote lore.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I learned today that on youtube you can have a video repeat if it's in a playlist, it's about time they added that but it's still dumb it has to be in a playlist first.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a loop option in the right click menu.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No way! How did I not know that, TIL

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't always there. You used to have to double right click for it. idk when they changed it but I'm glad they did

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

double right click

I only ever needed to single right click; could it be dependent on OS or browser?

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

This change happened years ago and I don't think looping is hidden anymore, on any platform.

Back in the day we used to have websites dedicated to looping YouTube videos because the functionality was so obscure.

[–] Twinkletoes@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Auto-impaled

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

TV was always on autoplay and nobody complained about.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Yeah they did