[coffeefirst]

True, but worse than that: it flattens everything. In another medium, we can kind of tell how much work you put into a thought. A well-written 500 word post is a different animal than a throwaway line.

This isn't a good thing. Who's an expert vs an amateur just having fun? Who's just musing idly while sipping scotch versus gone through several drafts and really put a lot of work into this? Who's passionate, if wrong, vs a troll and a provocateur?

It's fine for all those things to exist, it's not fine that we can't tell the difference and then amplify an unsuspecting chunk of them to a massive audience.

[pjc50]

Those are almost totally unrelated to length, though. And Youtube encourages the opposite: because of how monetisation works, it encourages people to ramble on at length. Nothing discourages me more than "watch this video", because the chances of it wanting to waste ten or thirty minutes of my time are high. Whereas I can read a lot more tweets.

[benibela]

Is it?

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

― Mark Twain