I’m pretty active in some gaming communities and my clans regularly share 10 minute videos. I get so frustrated. Half the time I can say, “does this video just say x, y, and z?” Most of them can be summarized in 1 or 2 sentences
I can acknowledge that some videos have value. A game review showing gameplay? A football film breakdown? Showing me tips and tricks to throwing the perfect vase on a pottery wheel? Please, feel free to use video.
Someone rambling to a camera? No.
But so many people will happily watch the 15 minute video and will somehow not have the attention span to read three paragraphs that say the same thing. (And they’ll watch 8 hours of YouTube videos babbling incoherently, but an 8 hour audiobook that actually makes sense? “Too hard.”)
Mine is video; didn’t watch.
Ain’t nobody got time for turning 30 seconds of text into a 10 minute video.
The easiest way to get the last word in an internet argument with me is to link to a video.
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=8R0GyAAypv_ZfJ7A
What now, smart guy?
https://youtu.be/Q9zvgcOrTtw
U jelly? https://youtu.be/G6DDQTKuLjg
I’m pretty active in some gaming communities and my clans regularly share 10 minute videos. I get so frustrated. Half the time I can say, “does this video just say x, y, and z?” Most of them can be summarized in 1 or 2 sentences
I can acknowledge that some videos have value. A game review showing gameplay? A football film breakdown? Showing me tips and tricks to throwing the perfect vase on a pottery wheel? Please, feel free to use video.
Someone rambling to a camera? No.
But so many people will happily watch the 15 minute video and will somehow not have the attention span to read three paragraphs that say the same thing. (And they’ll watch 8 hours of YouTube videos babbling incoherently, but an 8 hour audiobook that actually makes sense? “Too hard.”)
Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. So.
I either watch <30 second videos, or 2h+ long videos. No in between.
Shout out to HBomb’s Pathologic video, no text review can give me that experience.
Or when you are in public spaces without earphones. I am just doom scrolling on company time as a break.
Apparently you can use generative AI to summarize videos. Try using duckduckgo’s !ai bang to do so anonymously.
Yeah I have no interest in that either.
HAIYGUIYZZZ, today we’re…blah blah…but let’s take a moment to talk about our sponsor, SMASHADALIKEBUTTON…
you could abbreviate that as -V;DW