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Maybe it's an ADD thing, or an 'aging millenial shaking thier fist' thing, but video is soooo slow.
For reference or discussion, I always seek text first, to the point I'll even download/make transcripts if video's the only place I can find something. They just have so much filler.
No that's just true, videos are designed around ad slots — not content. A text guide you can scan through yourself is infinitely superior.
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.
Pause. Play. Pause. Play. Rewind. Pause. Play. Rewind. Pause.
FUCK
Then the video stops loading.
...They clearly didn't do enough scrubbing testing with neurodivergent users.
Sigh... yup.
But it's odd how we shifted from (the also incorrect)
To
Agreed. There's also the issue of indexing. You can't ctrl+f a fucking video.