Just saw someone refer to us being in a "video-first internet" and I've never been happier to be out of touch. No one anywhere can force me to watch a video. If culture's happening by video I just won't experience it. Making me watch a video should get you tried at the Hague.
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I watched a YouTube video yesterday because there was just no other way to get the information and it was something I was really curious about, and it was just like. I don't understand why people do this. This would have taken me four minutes to read at most but instead was twenty god damned minutes long. Really looking forward to going another few years in between ever doing this again.
I just don't get it, man. None of this shit deserves 20 uninterrupted minutes of my time, but somehow pausing and watching in several minute chunks made me feel even more insane. People do this EVERY DAY??? I don't know how anyone does this shit and frankly I don't think I want to. It's so bad!
Uh huh!! And like the thing is it's not just that people tolerate this, but I keep being assured that young people prefer this. Really? Really??
I think it's more that a lot of young people just do not know alternates exist. Video was thrust upon them as the internet. This shift was 100% corporate people figured out it was easier to inject ads into a video and get more engagement compared to ads on a webpage.
something i've been thinking about here is that they stopped teaching phonics in (US) schools and apparently now far fewer kids read for pleasure because it's a struggle.
if reading is no fun then sure, you'll fall back to video even if its worse
It took me like four hours to install a Fire Emblem Awakening mod because everyone was just linking videos for what amounted to directory management
Goddd. Yeah there's so many ways you could do that easier and faster than having a dang video.
As someone who ends up having to help people with these kinds of things, some people really want videos, which I assume is because many younger people don't have a level of familiarity with file systems where they understand what to do with presented with instructions like "open " or "extract the zip file to the root of SD card"... Which is unfortunate, because the random YouTube videos people find tend to become out of date quickly, and that's in the case where the videos don't already contain bad advice to begin with
did they mean "video-forced"? as in forced to watch a video instead of interacting with shit in any reasonable way? because that's the only way that makes even slight sense
I've been informed "the kids" prefer video. They use tiktok as a search engine. I'm easily into my 30s and don't know any friends' teenage kids well enough to know for myself, so there's a good chance this is at least partly journalists my own age projecting fear of their own irrelevance onto describing ways "the kids" are different
is it that the kids prefer it, or that it's been foisted upon them by adults who think kids prefer it?
Yes.
Very Yes.
I don't think it's true, but I dig where you're going.
Feels like some suit somewhere glanced at tiktok and said:
"Those are big numbers there. The whole internet must just be videos! Marv, this is our reality now!"
And then the other dude in the room was like "Yes, sir. Of course it is. Very prescient of you, sir".
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