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Google's trying too hard to be cool

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I had the following video in my queue recently, <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PLvudkTE0" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/e7PLvudkTE0" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Google Chrome Developers: Una Kravets & Adam Argyle" caption="Why is it overflowing?"> The following is not a comment on the usefulness of the information in these videos, but on the presentation, which I found so distracting as to make me stop watching. If the poster for it has changed, then here's what it used to look like. <img src="{att_link}image.jpg" href="{att_link}image.jpg" align="none" scale="50%"> I dunno, it's just too many colors and too much extra content and ... too much stuff before I get to find out the answer to the question posed in the title. The backgrounds of Una and Adam's offices look like an AI-generated background prompted by "cool gen-z office yolo". <img src="{att_link}una_and_adam_-_google_s_trying_too_hard_1.jpg" href="{att_link}una_and_adam_-_google_s_trying_too_hard_1.jpg" align="none" caption="Una and Adam looking like they're in PeeWee's playhouse" scale="50%"> I mean, Adam is always a bit over the top, but he positively looks like a cartoon character here. I'm wondering how many filters they're using. <img src="{att_link}adam_-_google_s_trying_too_hard_2.jpg" href="{att_link}adam_-_google_s_trying_too_hard_2.jpg" align="none" caption="Adam looking like he's an AI-generated cartoon character" scale="50%"> Anyway, these people are fine. They're smart. They're absolutely professionals in their field. They also look like they're characters in a Saturday Morning cartoon---for those of you who even remember what that was.