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I wish more people were like us on this matter, but they don't appear to be. People are using video for everything, regardless of how bad it is. One of the most popular genre of short form video is some well manicured person pointing up at some text that appears in the top of a video, set to terrible music. 20-100 words at most.
It's depressing how much history is going to be lost. Entire movements have been launched on videos that are now private or removed for copyright violations, and now they are gone forever to future historians. Even looking for information or knowledge now... 80% of your results are YouTube videos. All of that knowledge will disappear forever, and it doesn't even take a cataclysmic event - YouTube's search is so actively hostile that even if you know exactly the name of the video you're looking for, you will NOT find it unless it happens to already be algorithm aligned. YouTube is BY FAR a bigger danger to the throughline of history than ANY social media platform.