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by licebmi__at__ 1893 days ago
I do have a prejudice against people who tell me they learn something through a video. There are good video creators and good educational videos, but there’s just too much trash.

Besides that, I default to text content because of the monetary incentives on youtube, it’s absurd that a 10 min read, can be a more than half hour video that never gets to the point.

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>I do have a prejudice against people who tell me they learn something through a video. There are good video creators and good educational videos, but there’s just too much trash.

Bad content has absolutely nothing to do with the format. What a ridiculous statement. As if there aren't thousands of even worse articles, blog posts and incomplete/outdated documentation for every bad video. Does W3 schools ring a bell?

>it’s absurd that a 10 min read, can be a more than half hour video that never gets to the point

It's absurd you're blaming bad content on the format, which is also ironic because you missed where I explicitly wrote in text that I prefer well made videos. Do you expect every single piece of text you come across to be a concise and up to date source of truth?