[seydor]

> Now it's short form content for me. YouTube mainly

Videos take much longer than reading text . And they mostly say the same things. It's just that the better content has moved to youtube, where it can be monetized better

[Leynos]

What I like about videos is that I can listen to them while doing other things (e.g., dishes, laundry, walking, or gardening). YouTube premium lets you switch the screen off. Annoying that you have to pay for this, but no ads is a nice bonus. Nebula also lets you do this.

[ornornor]

Albanian IPs don’t get ads on YT because of a law they passed apparently banning ads on YT.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Videos take much longer to make [well], than equivalent text/image-based content.

But I’m a late boomer, so I come from the last century. I consume video content, but also, a great deal of written stuff.

[Iulioh]

I had that realization recently when a younger friend of mine used tiktok as a search engine to find a restaurant in a city....

"This is so ridiculous and funny " was my first reaction but then mind broke at the realization that this is the new future.

The same with ChatGPT...it's sad that it answers better than Google for generic information search, especially if you aren't familiar with specific terms in that field.

Text is dead