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by meatmanek 922 days ago
I assume most of this video bias comes from the ease of monetization (for content creators) on Youtube. That might in turn come from some mental cap held by viewers on the value of text vs. video, but I suspect it has more to do with the number and value of ads that can be shown by the platform. Some random blog platform is going to maybe have inline image ads, while Youtube has unskippable video ads which I assume are valued more by advertisers.