• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I agree completely. The only time I actually see benefit to video over print is with service guides and manuals. Unless you’re including a perfectly detailed exploded view, videos always seem to convey more information.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      And especially fuck the manuals that lump an entire product line into one manual (looking at you, HP) when they can have wildly different hardware

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    That would be great but I think OP’s just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial…

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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

    • egrets@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I don’t like these generational generalizations.

    Not an xer but I feel the same. I’d rather read twenty minutes than watch a 5 minute YouTube video.

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      “Elder millennial”/Oregon Trail generation here, and I’d generally rather read it, too. I’ve found it often only takes 5 minutes to read an article where the video would be 20 minutes. Sometimes a video works better for a how-to, but often an article will be a faster choice.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      I’m getting really tired of the news “articles” that have a video as well… I can’t stand clicking a post here on Lemmy and all the sudden a video is autoplaying… Like stfu I just want to read it, not hear some jackass newscaster and I especially hate the autoplay…

      • peto (he/him)@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The best ones are when you scroll down the page and the video comes too. I wish suffering on no one but were I to meet that particular ‘innovator’.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        The autoplay kills me too. I used to complain about it but we seem to be in the minority.

    • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’d rather read twenty minutes than watch a 5 minute YouTube video.

      Part of the reason why I have no patience for video as nonfiction is because I read a lot faster than videos (or audio) can communicate information. So for me, I’d rather read a 5 minute document than a 20 minute video, even if one is literally a transcription of the other.

      At least with audio I can take that in while doing something else.

    • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I’d rather read twenty minutes than watch a 5 minute YouTube video.

      I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a video, YouTube or otherwise, that conveys information faster than an article. It’s usually 10 minutes of video to convey what would take 3 minutes to read while providing greater detail.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        I ran into a small series of videos on repairing camcorders that actually delivered the video content appropriately. Basically no talking (I think at one point they poke the broken thing and make an “eh?” Noise to indicate you should pay attention to that). Shows the thing, shows the problem, showed removing the part, showed fixing it, and then putting it back.

        In my experience visual modes of communication work better for conveying visual information. Describing how you should position yourself for doing a task is harder than just showing a picture from a few angles. Likewise, describing how something moves is easier with an video because you can see it moving.

        Unfortunately, a lot of people aren’t looking to make the thing they’re making efficient, but to keep you there longer for engagement. Text is easy to skip around in, so verbose text describing what could be a 30 second video isn’t as effective. Inflating something that would be a four minute read on history or something into a video gives something harder to skim and still get information out of, and it’s way longer.

      • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        that is because videos have minimums to reach peak monetization

        it isnt about efficient information exchange

  • gamer@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    This is the type of boomer engagement bait you’d see on Facebook. It’s basically “UpVoTe If YoU aRe GeNx!1!1”. Sure, the discussion here is higher quality, but it still makes me cringe to see this kind of stuff being posted unironically on a site I use.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I am a Millenial and I prefer to read than to watch a video short from social media…

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    As a xennial with ADD, send me the short, I’ll watch it, hunt down the article, read it, then spend 3h down a rabbit hole to understand the validity of the claims and the bias of the news outlet, then I’ll get bored and stop typing in the mid

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    2 months ago

    I do wonder how much of video’s proliferation is because we (in the US at least) fucked up teaching a generation of kids how to read. I’m told one of the dominant strategies for teaching reading was just bad. Well meaning people went all in on it, and then kids just didn’t learn to read well.

    You can read about it here, or listen to it as a podcast https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      This is just appaling to read. No wonder the US education is so fucked.

      Just to further push the point, it took me 40 minutes to read 3 transcripts. Each transcription is of a roughly hour long podcast episode. So 3 hours down to 40 minutes and English is my second language. It stresses me that people can’t recognize that reading is the closest thing humans have to a superpower.