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I can send you the article, but you're going to get two "would you like to subscribe" popups and dozen more ads sprinkled between every third sentence.
Like, I get that the video shit is annoying. But it almost feels like a competition in print media to make it worse.
Case in point:
Firefox reader mode FTW.
Ublock origin is your best friend
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Can try the anti-adblock-adblock list lol
Millennial weebs read twice as fast as Gen x. Those fanmade anime subs can roll through quick.
Ikr, fuck ticktok i can SPEED through text!
Lmao, "for the love of bananarama" "in Prince's funky name, amen." Who types that?
A millennial pretending to be gen X.
Hi, millennial here. Do you know why some millennials and a large portion of gen z suck at reading? Because their boomer/gen x parents didn't read to them as a child.
I grew up on my grandmother's lap, with her actively making reading fun and encouraging me to read along - I was reading, and comprehending, YA novels by grade 2.
My little brother though, who did not have a parent/grandparent to teach them to love reading, can't read worth shit. He was well into highschool before he even attempted a book like animorphs, and still didn't really comprehend the plot any better than grade 2 me.
So no, this is not a generational/phones bad problem, it's just another example of how boomers and gen x let their children down when it came to raising them with life skills, and then making fun of them for it.
Because their boomer/gen x parents didn’t read to them as a child.
As a gen-Xer, this hurt to read. If I knew my classmates were going to grow up to be such dipshit parents, I would have slapped some sense into them. I mean, a lot of them were already pretty awful as teenagers... but, that wasn't a phase? Man, I am sincerely, deeply sorry.
This is the type of boomer engagement bait you'd see on Facebook. It's basically "UpVoTe If YoU aRe GeNx!1!1". Sure, the discussion here is higher quality, but it still makes me cringe to see this kind of stuff being posted unironically on a site I use.
I have no problems with videos but ya'll better have a better fucking source.
It's funny that they think there's any sort of easy way to get from a TikTok to an article.
If you see a millennial doing that then slap them and call them an embarrassment for me
You're supposed to watch tiktoks at 2x.
Ugh. Hate that so much info is forcing search results to lead with video results because adspace. 20 minute video on how to fold a towel when a single image with a few lines of text would do.
Post a pithy hot-take in text? Nobody reads.
Post a screenshot of the same text from a social media site? That’s bussin!
I wish to buy this person a beer. Also send me tech docs and not a YouTube tutorial where I have to jump ahead of all the bullshit while trying not to miss the useful details.
I do wonder how much of video's proliferation is because we (in the US at least) fucked up teaching a generation of kids how to read. I'm told one of the dominant strategies for teaching reading was just bad. Well meaning people went all in on it, and then kids just didn't learn to read well.
You can read about it here, or listen to it as a podcast https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
This is just appaling to read. No wonder the US education is so fucked.
Just to further push the point, it took me 40 minutes to read 3 transcripts. Each transcription is of a roughly hour long podcast episode. So 3 hours down to 40 minutes and English is my second language. It stresses me that people can't recognize that reading is the closest thing humans have to a superpower.
I know plenty of people that "can read fast." Unfortunately, they don't comprehend anything they read until they slow the fuck down.
Absolutely.
As a xennial with ADD, send me the short, I'll watch it, hunt down the article, read it, then spend 3h down a rabbit hole to understand the validity of the claims and the bias of the news outlet, then I'll get bored and stop typing in the mid
Well said
Gen Z'er here, and well, it depends on the topic. TBH I don't read much news at all, unless I see it on social media I'm not gonna know about it. But I will read an article if I care enough. Sometimes I want a quick overview, and some channels/reporters can do informative yet brisk news reports.
But when it comes to educational stuff, me and my fellow high school classmates hated watching a video for homework, and would usually just read the transcript of the video instead (and with ctrl + f, you save even more time). This was funny to my xillennial teacher, as he said schools started using videos because kids hated reading textbooks. And I'm not gonna lie, I fucking hate reading textbooks in college. So we're going full circle it seems.
hv;dw (hate videos; didn't watch)
The worst is instructional manuals being replaced with videos.
Going back 10 seconds, 20 times, so that you can visually see how two pieces fit together is way more annoying than just looking at a visual diagram on a printed page. Especially when you've got both hands full with stuff.
I put something together I got at Walmart like 10 years ago and it came with print instructions that had links to .gif files that were short and looping showing each step clearly
I though "oh wow if some random Chinese product does this surely it'll spread" and now feel so dumb for having thought that
I like a combination there. I want a diagram of the parts and how they fit, and a short video of installation or removal. Just like a picture describes a physical scene better than words, a video describes a changing physical scene better than a picture.
I still want text describing the steps of the process and a diagram showing what it should look like when I've done it right, I just also want someone to show me how to actually execute the tricky bit.
I don’t like these generational generalizations.
Not an xer but I feel the same. I’d rather read twenty minutes than watch a 5 minute YouTube video.
“Elder millennial”/Oregon Trail generation here, and I’d generally rather read it, too. I’ve found it often only takes 5 minutes to read an article where the video would be 20 minutes. Sometimes a video works better for a how-to, but often an article will be a faster choice.
Oregon Trail generation
Holy shit, you're 185 years old? What's the secret?
Surviving dysentery is probably the big one.
Bees.
*Jerry Seinfeld enters the chat*
So… underage girls?
I think I’d rather die young.
…huh; I guess that's one way for me to learn about this.
Also: Please just give us the f'ing text instead of a screenshot of text.
I am a Millenial and I prefer to read than to watch a video short from social media...