OFFICIAL FRIDAY NIGHT WATCH-ALONG!!!

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THE OFFICIAL 1980's SATURDAY MORNING PRESERVATION SOCIETY HISTORICAL REENACTMENT OF FRIDAY NIGHT PREVIEW SHOWS ON-LINE VIEWING PARTY WATCH-ALONG AND CHAT WILL BE THIS COMING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH AT 7PM PST (10PM EST)!!!

For those of you who have never done this with us before, here's how it's going to work:

Friday night at about 6:30/6:45, we'll post some links here on Facebook and *possibly* over on Tumblr as well that will take you to our 1980's Saturday Morning Preservation & Historical Reenactment Society chat room, along with a link to a super-secret YouTube channel that will only be available during this watch-along. Go log in to the chat, and then go to the YouTube link and cue up the video - BUT DON'T START PLAYING OR WATCHING THE VIDEO! Just pause the video and let it start building up a good buffer.

At 7pm, in the Chat Room, we will shout out "NOW!" or "HIT PLAY!!!" or something else to let everybody know that NOW is the time to hit "Play" so that we're all watching the same video at the approximate same time, just like it was back in the 1980's - No pausing the video, no skipping commercials... if you need to go to the bathroom or get a soda or feed the cat, you wait till commercial or a boring part of the show to do it!

Try to remember that getting to SEE this stuff is only PART of the experience - ANYONE can download a video and watch it at their convenience. But doing that makes the shows themselves less boring. By creating a Shared Cultural Experience, having this two-hour block of time dedicated to doing the exact same thing that everybody else is doing... THAT'S where the magic of Saturday Morning comes from :)

Comments

[aurora77]

Slinky's right. Not only do streaming sites throw in the ads, but if they think the content may match some copyrighted content, their bots can just automatically shut it down and auto-ban you at any time. Just like they did this weekend with Worldcon and the Hugo Awards. They banned WORLDCON. In the middle of the HUGOS. Neil Gaiman was giving a speech accepting an award for Doctor Who when they banned the account for showing authorized clips of Doctor Who at the award show. *facepalm*

With those sites, the worst part would be not knowing if you were going to get through your event or not, knowing they may shut it down at any time. :(

At least with YouTube, we get things uploaded early enough that if we're going to get content match warnings, we know and can do something about it rather than just getting auto-banned outright while people are watching.