Monday, 12 October 2015

Punctured: GoPros are amazing and I hate them

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Nothing says ‘extreme’ like action camera footage – and if sharing is caring, we care a lot. Smash ‘GoPro’ into YouTube and you get 23 million results.

Twenty-three million! That’s every single man, woman and child in London, including that weirdly Zen guy holding the Massive Golf Sale sign, and the mummified WWII colonel who always stops in shop doorways. All their videos suck. They’re just awful. But I’m not here to talk about them *hurls brick and runs*.

Actually, that’s still fewer than nine million people, so now you need to add everyone who lives in Scotland. And also Wales. And Northern Ireland. And the Republic of Ireland. Then you finally get to 23 million.

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So that’s quite a lot of first-person action videos, then.

Not all GoPro videos involve cycling – though several of the top 20 results regularly do, which is statistically significant – and not all of them are good. Some are terrible. Some look like this.

Feeling a little flat

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