I wish to buy this person a beer. Also send me tech docs and not a YouTube tutorial where I have to jump ahead of all the bullshit while trying not to miss the useful details.
Yay, more forced myopic generational divide!
be as cool as gen X and we’ll let you in the club
I’m good.
This you? https://lemmy.ca/post/44345013/16631619
What’s the point you’re trying to get at here?
It’s the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
Ehh some articles are full of useless fluff with like a single paragraph worth of info that I actually need, but I have to read from the start to figure it out, at least on the video I can jump at different points to quickly find where the useful info is
Who are you, that can skim a video faster than skimming text? That’s, like, the complete opposite of my lived experience 😂. What a rich melange of folks make up this world, eh.
Step 1 start video
Step 2 skip all introductory bullshit, usually about 5 mins
Step 3 - if pointless stuff is still playing jump further 5 to 10 Mins until worthy stuff starts playing.
Step 4 - repeat step 3 as needed till end of video
P.S. - Install Sponsorblock extension for YouTube. Which auto skips useless Ads and pointless section of any video that was voted for by the community of users
I’m glad that you have a workflow that works for you! I like to open up articles, instantly hit the ‘reader mode’ button, cmd+f for keywords, and hit ‘next’ until I find the relevant section. This usually takes just a few seconds to get to get meat (if there’s anything worth skipping). One advantage is my internet connection isn’t always great, so I only have to wait for a few kb of text to download (even on a shit connection that’s not generally a lag I’m capable of noticing), whereas with videos I often have some loading issues. Also I hate the style of most presenters and can scroll back to the right point more easily in text articles if I’ve gone ‘too far’, so that’s an approach that works for me.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve never heard of sponsor block, I rely on ublock origin (for Firefox, not the handicapped chrome version) when watching videos, and usually only watch videos that I actually want to watch, but I appreciate having another tool in my box.
Nobody is saying or implying videos are a more efficient way to consume information than reading… it’s not this or that it’s two different forms of media. Absolutely dumb tweet.
There are people who absolutely prefer videos to text.
A few years ago at work one of my tasks was writing up technical documentation. I’d write it up, get feedback, make tweaks, report complex errors upstream to improve or eliminate error messages, basically make the text as simple and straightforward as possible.
But over the years we’d get feedback, “Can this be a video?” and I didn’t get it. I figured I must not be writing it correctly. I’d chat with people, I’d gather more feedback. People still wanted video. I asked people for video how I could improve. They literally just wanted me to read the text I wrote. I didn’t get it.
Other folks on my team decided to make a few videos. The videos were just pictures of the text, the same pictures already included, and people reading it verbatim, plus a little background music. People loved it. Many people ignored it, but those that watched it, loved it. I still don’t get it.
It depends what it is for me but text can be frustrating for learning. I don’t retain read information well, I read slowly, I get distracted and can’t multitask to focus when my eyes are locked up with text, and it all kinda blurs together and feels samey. With audio I can set it to double speed and still process well making it way faster to process than my read speed, I can multitask to stay focused better, I’m less likely to get eye strain, retain the info better. With audio and video I can link changes in the screen and audio in a broad sense to what was being said. Like “oh this part where the music changed right before switching from the three paragraph page to the four paragraph page is extra important” which helps me retain the topic while also giving me clues as to where to find information without running into all the text being samey
Millenials also grew up reading everything, it’s just that the teen years had the text on a screen. It’s Gen Z that really had online video content from the start.
I have no problems with videos but ya’ll better have a better fucking source.
I know plenty of people that “can read fast.” Unfortunately, they don’t comprehend anything they read until they slow the fuck down.
Zoomer here! Written articles are amazing for fast information, and I go to them when I want a solution to something I already have a decent understanding of. Videos are especially nice for something you haven’t done before and want a real-time breakdown of the information.
I don’t need or want a video to do that for me though? I can breakdown information on my own as long as it’s presented to me, I don’t want everything spoon fed to me
TBF as a middle millennial, if you want me to click on the link you sent me, it had better not be a video
Whenever I’ve got the time to sit down and watch a video, it’s going to be one of the million things I’ve already been meaning to watch.
An article can be consumed in way more situations
This goes both ways, though. I hate it when I’m linked to an article that describes at agonizing length something that was captured on video, with only the lightest smattering of commentary that adds any insight or context, and not even a working link to or embed of the footage.
Think of Anthony Weiner’s furious, “The gentleman is correct in sitting!” (before his fall from grace), or Musk’s Nazi salute that looked suspiciously like a Nazi salute, or George W. Bush winning a free pair of shoes.
The video of the event itself would take fifteen seconds to watch and I’ll still feel the need to watch it after reading the article anyway.
hv;dw (hate videos; didn’t watch)
I’m a Millennial. I’d rather burn a house than pick a video from a choice of (video, article).
Conversely, don’t send us AI generated filler either, please.
Bruh I’m GenZ and can’t stand videos that are just someone saying something. Give it to me in text. I can read faster than I can listen and I can go back and re-read something if I want to. It’s so obnoxious.
I think the proliferation of videos as primary information sources is a huge part of how propaganda and disinformation became so effective and powerful. It’s why we’ve done a collective nosedive into regressive politics and can no longer agree on the objective facts regarding… well… anything!
Information delivered by video tends to be trusted on the way it’s delivered rather than the content itself. So we’re thinking less critically about what we choose to believe.
While I agree that the pivot to video was a massive turning point in the dumbing down of political discourse, I think it’s more to do with the pace and passive nature of video/audio: the people are getting news and ideas at the cadence that the broadcaster deems appropriate instead of at the pace of the listener which would happen in reading or face to face transmission.
If something was missed entirely or misunderstood it is far more tedious to try and hunt down the segment that needs reiteration than it is to read it again (or ask for clarification). This means people that miss something will just try to pick up any context later in the broadcast and if the broadcaster doesn’t deem it important or relevant (or maliciously omits it), the listener has no further interaction with the idea. And then the idea is lost beneath the rest of the news agglomeration.
Lmao, “for the love of bananarama” “in Prince’s funky name, amen.” Who types that?
A millennial pretending to be gen X.
