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All of the above is precisely why I write long winded articles chock-a-block full of pictures and I don’t produce video essays.
Well, that and having a face made for radio but a voice made for print may also have something to do with it.
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
Add to it, 99% of people completely suck at presenting.
I have siblings who are teachers, and I’m a technical instructor. We work hard to not waste your time.
there’s been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I’m just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.
ofc it’s not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it’s just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes
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Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn’t the same.
I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I’m in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don’t use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn’t get.
It’s also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I’ve already lost track of midway.
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don’t realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don’t know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Reading requires attention. YouTube videos you can put on in the background during work or other activities.
I can’t imagine why I’d want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.
I listen to music at work.
hmm, while I’m doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn’t occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
depends on the job: but I think audiobooks and podcasts are generally better for jobs where you don’t need your full attention on the job.
Totally agree, if I’m hoping to retain anything.
I will totally listen to episodes of many of Simon Whistler’s channels at work and not care if I remember the details of some random serial killer’s history!
Nevermind. I think I misunderstood the comment I was responding to.
Music has no new information though, that’s just for enjoyment. Some of us don’t have enough time in a day to do everything we want to do so you gotta hack it lol
I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Search for these strings and let’s talk.
- incase
- aswell
- literally
- (his|her|their|the) emails
- the ask
- the spend
I use literally. It’s a useful word. If someone complains about a use case of a tool, and that use case is literally the intended use case, it conveys how inappropriate their complaint is.
Never heard of those last two though.
Literally’s absolutely over-used, and usually used wrongly. I think we’ve lost our collective memory of Valley Girl Dialect – so grody.
“The ask” and “the spend” are a newer bit of scumbag coke-addled salesman dialect that has crept out into the light. Someone will ask “what was the ask on this?” where they mean to ask what the request or question was. Similarly, salesman use “the spend” in place of “the invoice” or “the budget”.
It’s like when “do lunch” or “action this” was used unironically.
And if it’s an X link I take a little detour to block the poster as well.
I copy the url and replace the domain part with xcancel.com
Lemmy plugin idea: when someone posts a YouTube link, the server copies the video to peertube instead.
Or maybe we could build that into the client to save server resources.
While that is an idea that’s cool for the fediverse as a whole, it COMPLETELY misses the point of this post. We want to READ the information, not listen to someone trickle feed it to us, peppered with adverts and asides.
YouTube is not the problem here. Some people don’t want to listen to some idiot talking. Where is the text, god damn it. I sometimes use AI to turn a video into text because I hate watching videos for information so much.
I hate when the information I’m trying to get is trapped in a video. It’s not often that I can’t find text alternatives, but it happens on occasion. Being trapped watching a video whose purpose is only partly to deliver information (the other part to game the algo and appease sponsors), when I could have found the info I needed in 30 seconds if it was text – that’s my idea of torture.
One of the very few legitimately game-changing aspects of AI in my life is video summaries.
I’d love a bot for that
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Several times a day, every day. I hate the ones that sucker you in, somehow. I follow the link fully expecting an article, and it’s just a video embedded in some site.
But, also the articles that tease the point. It could be two paragraphs, but the writer is apparently paid by the word, so you need to skim two-thirds of the article to get there.
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.
But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.
YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that’s long solved.
I prefer to stick to anything that doesn’t now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
Unpopular opinion I know, but I don’t hate YouTube.
I don’t either, but the chances of me being interested in watching the video being posted are close to zero.
Amen.
Just change YouTube to yewtu.be
That was my first thought, but I think the idea is that a well thought and written article can be a better medium for certain materials than a video on where someone just narrates something and shows slightly unrelated royalty free videos.
could use the ask button for the citations the video is using and read those, or sometimes they’re linked in the description
Or find a repost.
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he’ll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his “journalism” is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn’t make you right on other things.
Hear me out, if you start it from the cover up where the investor and his son’s plane explode and the evidence vanishes you can watch the rest to the song “bodies hit the floor”. Murders end around the same time the first reports of Epstein surfaced in 94. CIA is tied in.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
The Franklin child prostitution ring allegations began in June 1988 in Omaha, Nebraska, when multiple prominent Nebraskan political and business figures were accused of involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. The allegations attracted significant public and political interest until late 1990, when separate state and federal grand juries concluded that the allegations were unfounded and the ring was a “carefully crafted hoax.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
I’m as disappointed in you now as your parents must be when you remind them you exist. Seriously, do I need to explain why I’m disappointed? If you can watch the back half of that video and still believe that Wikipedia entry I have a bridge to sell you 😂
Alisha Owens makes total sense 🤣
