> No. I make a legitimate post about a film I think people may be interested in and because I don't ramble on enough others don't get to hear about it? What is the reason for this sub then?

This comment of yours is 187 characters long. Just one more sentence of equal length and you'd reached that 300 counter. Doesn't seem entirely unreasonable as a minimum.

If you'd put as much effort into your post as you did typing this comment - which I can't imagine was a lot - you'd be there already.

Well in the case of that one there's just no way to tell whether that's real or AI

Sure, give the AI enough clear voice samples and it can clone anyone's voice

Have you missed the entire ElevenLabs thing and the voice cloning drama?

David Attenburough's voice narrating Fallout creatures

Emma Watson's voice reading Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Donald Trump and President Biden debating Clone Troopers from Star Wars

George Lucas talking about Jar Jar Binks

Rod Serling narrating a NSFW Twilight Zone episode

With clear enough samples, ElevenLabs can pretty convincingly clone a voice and you can make them say anything.

Oh I know, I did mention that every installment has one, but felt unnecessary to describe every single one in detail. I decided last minute to throw in the Dead Men Tell No Tales one only because it's the first after-credit scene that seems to tease a new installment, so it seemed notably different to the rest.

Stranger Tides after-credit scene meanwhile is Angelica finding Jack's voodoo doll, but nothing really comes of that in the next installment. Therefore, this one is neither a reference/joke (like the dog worship one) nor a bit of extra continuity (like Jack's immortality or Elizabeth's and Will's child) nor teasing the next installment (like Dead Men Tell No Tales)

It's just a dangling plot thread that they didn't decide to do anything with

>It didn't become common/huge until the MCU with Iron Man in 2008.

I think Pirates of the Caribbean was the first modern series that made post-credit scenes a staple of the franchise. I think that's the first time it "caught on"

I remember when those movies were popular and people would tell you to stay until after the credits for a surprise, and every installment in the franchise had a cheeky post-credit scene that would reference something from the movie

The first Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) had an after-credit scene that shows the monkey, Jack, sneak back into the cove and steal cursed gold, which was why Jack would stay an undead monkey for the remainder of the franchise

The second one, Dead Man's Chest, returns to the tribe that worshipped Cpt. Jack Sparrow and shows that they're now worshipping the dog that was left behind.

Third one, At World's End, has a post-credit scene showing Will as the captain of the Flying Dutchman coming ashore to see Elizabeth and their son.

It's not until Dead Men Tell No Tales that the aftercredit scenes shift to teasing an upcoming installment though, as that one ends with a post-credit scene in which they tease the return of Davy Jones

“I could understand why somebody might write someone else’s name once. But I don’t know why you would write somebody else’s name so many times like that,”

This is definitely a line written by someone who has never seen a teenager's diary.