This isn’t useful or productive at all – it’s just fun.
In VLC’s preferences in the Video section / Output, there is the option to have video rendered as color ASCII:
After you choose this setting, restart the player and any video played will look like this:
To put it back the way it was, go back to where you chose Color ASCII output and choose Default.
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