[chankstein38]

Same. I think it's a mix of that and this "presenter voice" everyone thinks they have to use. My ADHD brain doesn't focus on it well because it's too slow so it's useless to me but all my life I've been told when presenting I should speak slowly and articulately while the reality is that watching anyone speak that way drives me nuts

[jrockway]

What's great about writing is that readers can go at their own pace. When speaking, you have to optimize for your audience and you probably lose more people by being too fast vs. the people you lose by talking too slow. I have to say I appreciate YouTubers that go a million miles an hour (hi EEVBlog). As a native speaker of English, I can keep up. But you have to realize, most people in the world are not native speakers of English.

(The converse is; whenever I turn on a Hololive stream I'd say that I pick up 20% of what they're saying. If they talked slower, I would probably watch more than every 3 months. But, they rightfully don't feel the need to optimize for non-native speakers of Japanese.)

[antod]

> What's great about writing is that readers can go at their own pace.

100%, and you can skim it so that your pace subconsciously varies depending on how relevant or complex that section is.

[chankstein38]

This is why I hate the trend of EVERYTHING being made into a video. Simple things that mean I have to watch 4-5min of video and have my eardrums blasted by some dubstep intro so some small quiet voice can say "Hi guys, have you ever wanted to do _x_ or _y_ more easily?" before finally just giving me the nugget of information I came for.

I wish more stuff were available in just text + screenshots..