Video seems designed for people who mainly want to be entertained for a few minutes (usually just over the 10 minute mark, never mind how that is the exact limit tied to increased advertising revenue…), rather than people who seek actual information to parse.
Ngl, while eating lunch this describes me. But I more often want information too, otherwise, and yet ever since Google purchased and decided to promote YouTube the text based ones seem to mysteriously be much more difficult to find…
Don’t get me wrong. Some YouTubers are great and informative, and I adore those random washing machine repair videos… But yeah. As reference its an awful format.
It’s like how discussion has mostly move from forums, to Reddit, and now to Discord. I get it, it’s highly engaging since it pings your phone and folks shoot the breeze, but it is an information black hole.
Video seems designed for people who mainly want to be entertained for a few minutes (usually just over the 10 minute mark, never mind how that is the exact limit tied to increased advertising revenue…), rather than people who seek actual information to parse.
Ngl, while eating lunch this describes me. But I more often want information too, otherwise, and yet ever since Google purchased and decided to promote YouTube the text based ones seem to mysteriously be much more difficult to find…
Don’t get me wrong. Some YouTubers are great and informative, and I adore those random washing machine repair videos… But yeah. As reference its an awful format.
It’s like how discussion has mostly move from forums, to Reddit, and now to Discord. I get it, it’s highly engaging since it pings your phone and folks shoot the breeze, but it is an information black hole.
Sigh… yup.
But it’s odd how we shifted from (the also incorrect)
To