I think it ultimately boils down to your last paragraph. For those content creators that get stuff out regularly and quickly, at least. I don’t usually see this though. Mostly the big studios.

For the big guys, I figure there are third party services that may exist. Or an internal group that archives and tags things of relevance. Or… a hell of a lot of staff working late. But alas, until I meet someone in that industry, I think this will be a mystery.

Exactly. I’m so very curious if something like this exists for processing high profile figures like politicians and celebrities. A catalog of things they’ve said, actions and insinuations, and etc.

I mean, maybe there’s a team that manually looks up every single time X politician mentions or is seen eating McDonald’s. Or… perhaps there’s this awesome database that maintains this kind of info.

You never know when you need a reference every time X politician talks about grabbing 🐈.

I don’t know. Perhaps it seems like a lot because of how quickly studios can push something out on the most random topics.

Let’s pretend we’re doing a comedy bit where the celebrity XYZ is talking about hot dogs.

If you don’t have a database to search, then you need to start scrapping as many videos from YouTube and other sources of that celebrity. You can leverage YouTube’s existing transcription capability with some additional software. Then you need to at store it in some sort of searchable database to automate it. Etc etc.

And then the boss says, “forget hot dogs! Eggplants! I need all the videos where they reference eggplants!”

Or to make it even harder, I’ve seen so many videos where the person is just gesticulating or making some sort of movement. No words transcribed. It’s just physical. And somehow these studios manage to scrounge up a dozen clips referencing that very thing. Then they pump something out in a day.

I just imagine there has to be some sort of system for this in the film and TV industry. Or maybe a private company they rely on.

YouTube content creators obviously don’t have this kind of cash, so they’re going to have to rely on more manual methods that take time and they’re not going to be able to find nearly as much.

🤦🏽

I’ve been wondering about this for so long. It’s so mundane and useless. And yet it’s a practical element of studio or online content creation that I’ve never really understood. And for some reason I keep thinking about it! 😅

Of course. However, this is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.

I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.

Perhaps there are databases made available to them through a third party or perhaps their production companies?

I understand on an individual basis how to search transcripts and find the cuts one is looking for. There’s a variety of applications and indirect ways to achieve this even for a small time content creator. However, this is time consuming and most people don’t have libraries built up that contain the content for quick access.

I’m thinking more about something like The Daily Show, SNL, or any late night TV show. I can’t imagine that they’re manually doing all this work independently.

Perhaps there are databases made available to them through a third party or perhaps their production companies?