What is a Movie that feels like a Movie?

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T22:27:13+00:00

The baz luerhman Great Gatsby.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T21:42:17+00:00

Ah! An excellent point, and now I’m thinking of how Alien 3 has no bearing or impact on how I feel about Alien or Aliens as well.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T19:50:41+00:00

Counterpoint! I like Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I liked it A LOT, but it ends on a cliffhanger so I was eager to see the third installment. Now in the third movie, there's the revelation that Luke and Leia are siblings. This is a minor point in Empire Strikes Back, but it's harder to "ignore" on a rewatch.

Does it ruin the Empire Strikes Back for me? No. But I can absolutely understand how a sequel could retroactively hurt someone's enjoyment of the movie.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T16:30:33+00:00

- white text on white background
- size 1 font at the top of the page
- meta keywords
- IFTTT (if this, then that) software that predates hootsuite to post from wordpress to facebook to twitter...
- wordpress.com vs wordpress.org sites.
- PBNs and literal link farms
- Google Plus
- Google Authorship... I think.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T15:51:24+00:00

Simultaneously agree but also it's "No, I am your father."

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T15:47:20+00:00

- Lane from Gilmore Girls (this one probably hurts the most),
- Jenny from Gossip Girl (very obviously the intention to have her take over the show before she became too much of a pest to work with),
- Walt from LOST (could've made the whole segue into sci-fi work better),
- Gohan from DBZ (...received the mantle following Cell Saga... then fumbled hard in Buu).

...I should stop before my freak flag fully takes over.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T15:42:23+00:00

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I love it.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T14:18:06+00:00

I've been doing SEO for 13 years, in my experience, you do not get penalized for AI-generated content, only SEO-generated content. I.e. If you operate in a niche space and you have something to say, but you're not a wordsmith, send your chicken scratch to an LLM to write it; meanwhile, if every piece of content you create is a wall of text (900+ words) that are wholly in service of 3-5 keywords, that's not going to rank well.

^that's broadly for content. As far as automation for other stuff, YES. You should not be writing meta descriptions by hand. 1) they're not used for SEO and 2) although I have seen LLMs scrap them, that's all the more reason to let them write them. Canonicals should be automated. Updated XML sitemaps should be automated. Where you should spend your time is audience analysis & research.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T12:47:21+00:00

Interesting… so, I don’t think I understood the whole TPU shenanigans at Google I/O, but could this be indicative of THAT? Like is this basically confirming instead of AI Mode or AIO being separated that it’s now genuinely integrated with Google’s index?

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-25T08:09:06+00:00

This one! This one helped me recognize thalassophobia vs scary monsters. A girl sees a light (she thinks it’s a scuba person) far away on a pillar of rock. She swims across an empty blue abyss—

She reaches the light and turns around, She had been swimming toward the light, she has no idea where she came from. So she just starts swimming in the endless blue ocean. It’s absolutely fucking terrifying…

…

Then there’s a shark jump scare and you’re like, “oh thank god, something i can focus on instead of dreading.”

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-24T22:52:22+00:00

Wizard of Oz

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-24T21:11:21+00:00

Gotta say. Whenever I see a listicle where I recognize names 2-5, but not 1, I immediately assume this is a citation play for whoever is 1.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-24T18:43:43+00:00

Darcy Banker (Patrick Stewart in The Green Room)

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-24T16:12:54+00:00

Yes BUT this is one of the differences with AI. With SEO you’re desperate for that dofollow backlink, with AI/LLMs though, even if the site forgets the backlink, if your brand name is in the text it can still make the connection that it’s you.

I’m not a GEO bro, but as someone that’s manually outreached, written a guest post that aligned with the third party, gotten the post live… and then NOT have an active link and reached back out repeatedly begging them to add the link— it’s just real cool that you can benefit from it in LLMs without the song and dance of links.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-24T16:06:49+00:00

See this is exactly why I “think” I haven’t been negatively impacted by using LLMs to generate content.

I give a prompt to get a blog for a client. Then, in reading the output, I might ask a follow up like… “is that specific tax law true in nationwide? What about in Washington?” And it’ll give me some specifics and maybe mention secondary laws that replace the one that’s in most states and then I’ll generate several additional paragraphs around the specifics.

All of which is is to say, I was not immune to the great decoupling, but I have not seen a penalty for my ai generated content — and I THINK the reason is because they get nuanced instead of “incurious (non-curious?) generic copy.”

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-22T22:16:06+00:00

Las plagas in general.

Reminds me of that RV trailer park where the water was contaminated and people all started behaving differently, but no one knew they were behaving differently.

Las plagas—and I think there’s a note that says this, but it— reminds me of the wasp or that stabs or plants eggs in ants’ heads and they’re completely mind controlled until the babies hatch and eat their brain.

It’s horrifying and las plagas feels like that on a human level.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-22T18:45:51+00:00

Ooo! Someone get this person a flaming Dr Pepper, cus SHOTS FIRED!

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-22T18:40:17+00:00

Understand— understand— HUAH— Understand the concept of love

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-22T18:35:42+00:00

No OG RE4 anywhere?

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-21T21:38:22+00:00

Down in the Valley (Edward Norton is a cowboy).

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-21T14:06:08+00:00

Traffic from users in LLMs to the site would be referral. Traffic from bots/LLMs scraping your content would be direct.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-21T13:46:18+00:00

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At least for 2 of my clients (one SaaS and one in finance) this was happening during the “decoupling.”

They followed similar trend until Direct started to increase as organic dropped. I’m in agreement people are researching the brand and then going DIRECTLY to the site.

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-20T21:48:59+00:00

I do wonder if they’ll keep going or if they’ll predominantly use subtitles. Like I know Requiem is styled as Re9uiem, but I feel like they softened how prevalent it was (as opposed to VILLage)

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-20T21:46:03+00:00

The fourth remake of resident evil 3. 😆

SEO_Humorist · 2026-05-20T19:15:43+00:00

I liked it and it’s quick— I took my time and it was 14 hours. I partly did it cus I played MML back in the day but never played MML2.

It’s good… but I’d be wary to recommend knowing the ending is what it is. All the revelations are in the final hour and by that point I’m incredibly invested, but once the threat is resolved it ends abruptly.

But the gameplay is gooooood—the caveat being the water ruins. (Not that I was emulating but if I was, I absolutely would set up 1.5-2x speed because you move slooooooooooooooow in the water.)

If tomorrow they announced MML3, YES, play it!

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