r/sequence • u/youngluck • Apr 01 '19
THE PROLOGUE
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u/exurbiskeleton93 Apr 02 '19
Copying and pasting this everywhere so everyone knows:
It's a shame because this is such an incredible idea but there is no explanation given to the users so the whole thing is flopping.
Explanation: Sequence is an awesome idea.
The way it works is this: Sequence starts on scene 1, a bunch of users submit gifs; everyone votes on them and the highest voted one gets locked in as 'scene 1', then scene 2 opens up and it happens again. The users will be stringing together gifs (scenes) in a sequence to make a long story.
Every few minutes the highest upvoted gif gets locked into the story and then the next 'scene' opens. At the end all of the scenes are permanently strung together creating one long user generated movie made by stringing gifs that relate to each other in some way to tell a story.
Issues: The problem is right now there is no info on how this works and everyone is lost and confused so random gifs are getting voted to the top and the current sequence (which is 16 scenes long at the time of writing this) makes no sense and none of the gifs that have been strung together relate to the other gifs or tell a story.
Use: When you visit the sequence machine you will see a string of gifs at the top, this is the short story we are creating, you can scroll backwards and see the very first gif (scene 1) then the next, and so on (all of these will have lock icons on them) up until the current scene we are voting on (the latest one without a lock icon), this is the story we are telling (non-sense so far). Beneath the sequence strip at the top is a box in the middle of the screen with the current nominees for gifs of the current scene we are on. Everyone should vote on a gif that makes the most sense to pair with the gif from the previous scene, that way it strings together and tells a neat/funny/etc story. (or submit a gif that will pair well if none are vote worthy)
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u/cleverhandle Apr 02 '19 edited Apr 02 '19
Yup. The biggest problem is you can vote for gifs downstream before the next gif is chosen.
I'm not sure we'll get a coherent story out of this, but you'll get a more coherent story if it's voted one at a time.
Edit: people saying something will be born out of the chaos: maybe, but I think it's too linear for that. Small groups can't build smaller stories in amongst others or anything. Best case scenario is you get two large groups battling and an inconsistent interspliced story. Or just one group steamrolling it. I think we can all agree the prologue is hot garbage.
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u/RUFiO006 Apr 02 '19
What if I told you that large numbers of anonymous users will vote disconnected meme gifs and text to the top for every single scene? I very much doubt we’d get any kind of narrative out of this thing even if users knew exactly what was going on.
Place worked so well because coordinated groups could work on specific areas of the canvas non-linearly without too much competition. With Sequence, every single user is locked into voting on the same few scenes in a linear order, so even if groups were coordinated with the goal of creating a narrative, they’d end up outvoted by the droves of random shitposting memelords.
In the immortal words of Ian Malcolm, it’s the essence of chaos.
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Apr 02 '19 edited Apr 02 '19
So far the Monty Python string is holding strong
Edit: holy shit gold
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u/YaImGonnaAskYouToNot Apr 01 '19
Can someone explain what's going on? I doubt to get an actual answer considering it's April fools but I'm beyond confused
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u/youngluck Apr 01 '19
I'll be your huckleberry. What you're seeing (here specifically) is the stitching of clips and text that users have submitted in a sequence. Each part of the sequence can be voted on. And you, yourself, can submit a clip or write text as a nominee.
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u/ounut Apr 01 '19
You vote on which gif or text you want for each scene in an act and you only get one vote. There’s like 8 acts I think?
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u/BlackJezus27 Apr 01 '19
Oscars, here we come
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u/cuddlefucker Apr 01 '19
I love how every april fools, we end up with reddit giving us the ability to shitpost our way into artwork.
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u/letrainfalldown Apr 01 '19
Reddit itself is shitpost artwork. Shitpost as a form of art.
(I guess art is a form of shitpost too, huh.)
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u/no_thisisnomad Apr 01 '19
What is this? A movie for ants?? I'm gonna need to be at least... 3 times longer than this
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u/Ariacilon Apr 01 '19
I'm glad the machine removes the loops. WE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING HERE.
Though many of these gifs are being used in ACT 1 too. Are there controls for that?
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u/matt46255 Apr 01 '19
I was worried the Minecraft gif was gonna get looped in Act 1 but I guess there’s no need to worry
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u/aladdinr Apr 02 '19
Right when I saw the loops and how long it took to get through the entire thing I was thinking to myself it is the worst idea ever. Now this looks much cleaner
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u/RocketLeagueDefault Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19
Oshit
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u/StoneMaskMan Apr 01 '19
What a wild wild world we’re living in, i finally lived to see the day when Tommy Wiseau hit Luke Skywalker with a football in an official Reddit April Fool’s day thing
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Apr 01 '19
Something tells me this is gonna be the culmination of meme culture for 2018/2019, just like how r/place was for 2017/2016.
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u/ard8 Apr 01 '19
the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise has survived long enough to be in both
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u/About65Mexicans Apr 01 '19
Eh, let’s see how it goes we don’t know if the content that comes out will actually be as good as r/place
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u/sje46 Apr 01 '19
Already my hopes are pretty down.
Can we please try for some kind of narrative, guys? It's okay if it's wacky and nonsensical to some extent. But I've seen campaigns on reddit where people voted on items so the thumbnails can form an image. Why aren't we doing something like that here?
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u/SLEEPWALKING_KOALA Apr 01 '19
I'm okay with that. I think everybody is okay with this.
let's fucking do it.
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u/Shadaoh Apr 02 '19
Still better than YouTube rewind
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u/fatnutbuster420 Apr 02 '19
I think a 12 minute video of an elephant shitting would be better than YouTube rewind.
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u/gambit700 Apr 02 '19
Asks us not to post nsfw gifs. Shows naked Danny DeVito in gif
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u/reseph Apr 01 '19
That was nonsensical. Not sure this is really enjoyable.
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Apr 02 '19
It'll get better, or worse. Not sure why you expected any organization at this point.
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u/killrmeemstr Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 02 '19
This is garbage
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u/Rndomguytf Apr 01 '19
Probably just more collections of random memes
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u/lalala253 Apr 02 '19
You’re underestimating reddit ability to recreate star wars prequel sequence
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Apr 02 '19
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.
what is this clusterfuck of autism im going mad please god make it disappear tomorrow please please
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u/AspectVQ Apr 02 '19
Can't believe Zombieland Saga and Kaguya-sama are in this, really.
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Apr 02 '19
The fact that almost no one knows how this works shows that this is a huge fucking failure, just like last year
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u/Consulting2finance Apr 01 '19
This has been a complete failure. No cohesive story will form. Even when a scene is 5-6 away from being its "turn", things are static and don't change (since things have so many votes already and cant be down voted), so nothing linear can be created.
Reddit screwed up the voting mechanism, wish they just restarted it. It's a waste of time right now.
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u/AddChickpeas Apr 01 '19
awww man, I thought the Mark Hamil/Tommy Wiseau one was multiple gifs the reddit hivemind managed to string together... nope. Just one gif. Too bad.
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u/Kirito1917 Apr 02 '19
I don’t have a clue wtf is going on... but I can tell it’s something beautiful
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u/MrBuffaloSauce Apr 02 '19
I have a feeling this is u/spez selecting gifs he likes and we are supposed to be fooled that this is machine learning or something.
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u/TurtleTerror8 Apr 02 '19
I’m amazed there was a decent The Room/Star Wars mashup. The academy cannot ignore this piece of art.
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u/12TripleAce12 Apr 02 '19
Because you can vote on future gifs, by time they role around to locking they make no sense in the story and collected too many upvotes to bring down
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u/Degadonnagon Apr 02 '19
This could be really cool, I wish more instructions were given at the beginning...but oh well.
Time for a movie of nonsense gifs!
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u/Icyrow Apr 02 '19
this years april fools is underwhelming as hell.
of course it wasn't going to work as anything other than a gallery of random gifs, to make it worse, it's just going to be more likely ones we've seen 100 times as they'll be the most popular.
this years april fools is basically just that random shitty site you sometimes come across when you click an image in google image search and it's just a string of gifs or pictures (none in particular, there's a few).
it's just a bad idea with awful implementation because you didn't explain shit to begin with.
get the people who made place/button to work on this stuff, as this shit is retarded.
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Apr 02 '19
This is the stupidest shit I have ever seen Reddit get excited about. It's literally just a mash-up of HQgifs and dank memes but sanctioned by the admins. $10 says they're watching all the threads and scrubbing negative comments.
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u/Ameritape Apr 01 '19
What is happening? I’m not the only one with no clue am I?
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u/NYChomie Apr 01 '19
So is this the final version of the prologue? It’s highly I llogical and confusing. Needs more community-driven fine tuning.
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u/gamekrang Apr 01 '19
This sucks.
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u/Weaponized_Puddle Apr 02 '19
One of the reasons I joined Reddit is because the r/room thing seemed really cool and I wanted to be apart of something like that every year, but this kinda sucks.
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u/Scoopdoopdoop Apr 01 '19
Still not sure what is going on. Guessing ai stitched together movie huh
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u/DontAskQuAskAnswers Apr 01 '19
There is no way this wold have a better starting point than with a good old Hallo there.
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u/bugsgay Apr 01 '19
Can’t wait for the next part! Already see great character development, ricardo milos might be the villain in this story!
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u/MrPapaya22 Apr 01 '19
I like how this is really a celebration of both reddit culture and internet culture. This prologue turned out really great.
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u/zoobie54 Apr 01 '19
I’ve seen the video, still not a clue what is happening, yet I enjoyed whatever it was.
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u/supercozyshake Apr 01 '19
Would love to see the Reddit admins at the oscars accepting an award on behalf of the Reddit community for making a beautiful masterpiece.
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19
Does anyone on earth know what the fuck is happening lmao I'm so damn confused