Some American TV series of the 1980's (including quite fondly remembered ones, like Knight Rider) had this strange habit of showing a kind of "teaser" of the contents of the episode at the beginning of the episode. Or at least some of their TV broadcasts did (I think these were cut from or never added to VHS and DVD releases of these series, although there might have been some that did.) This was actually relatively common in many TV series of the time.
As far as I remember, this habit was eventually dropped by the 1990's, and almost no TV series used it anymore.
However, for some strange reason the habit was caught and rekindled by other types of TV shows, particularly the "reality TV" ones: Indeed, while not all, some of them, even to this day, do the exact same thing: They show a kind of "teaser" of the contents of the episode at the beginning.
Whether this is considered ok or annoying depends a lot on the individual viewer, I suppose.
For some reason, however, some YouTube channel creators have also caught this bad habit, and have started showing these "teasers" of the contents of the video at the beginning. However, these tend to be orders of magnitude more annoying than with those TV series of the 80's and the "reality TV" series later.
Because with those TV series there's usually at least 5 to 15 minutes between showing the short teaser clips, and those segments actually appearing in the episode.
In many of these YouTube videos, however, it's not 5 to 15 minutes. It's 5 to 15 seconds!
It literally makes absolutely no sense: The YouTube video will show a "teaser" of what's coming up in the video... only to show the exact same clip a mere 10-or-so seconds after that, after some very brief intro!
It makes no sense. It essentially just shows the same clip twice, with just a very short "intro" in between. It makes the entire "teaser" at the beginning not just completely useless and obsolete, but outright annoying. Why show the same clip twice, in very quick succession?
By merely reading this it might not sound so bad and annoying as I'm trying to make it seem, but believe me: It is. When you see it, you'll understand it.
I don't really understand why these youtubers are doing this. What's the point? It's like they are copying this trend from reality-TV shows and not even understanding the idea, just copying it blindly, even when the time between the "teaser" and the same clip appearing in the video proper is ridiculously short.
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