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.
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Conversely, don't send us AI generated filler either, please.
When I'm looking at my phone, I want the original text so I can ~~read~~ skim it myself.
When I'm not looking at my phone, I want the video so I can continue not looking at my phone.
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.
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Conversely, some things should not be articles either. I tried looking up the temp for cooking chicken, and the amount of 20-minute reads out there to find out it’s 165° for chicken breast, is too damn high.
The problem in that case is SEO. What you need is a table of cooking temps or just a single number, but what ranks high is a web page that mentions "cooking", "chicken" and "temperature" a million times.
(Or be like Gen X and keep a cook book and a scattered assortment of notes in a drawer)
Thank you for elaborating and proving my point.
i am 12 can you make a video that tells me the chicken cooking temp
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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
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Did someone just say something? I thought I heard an opinion but it must have been the wind. I was born in 84 and I remember there being older kids but I don't really remember much about them. I remember reading magazines and books and having the world revolve around me. I remember having to learn cursive, memorizing math tables, watching Mr. Wizard, I used a rotary phone, and I even understand a file system. Boomers and younger generations don't know how to use a terminal. The only thing that stumps me is the generation between me and the boomers. I remember someone being there but they just sort of blur together with the boomers now like they were always the same thing.
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.
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...
The autoplay kills me too. I used to complain about it but we seem to be in the minority.
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'.
“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.
It's also much easier to retain information skimming through text compared to a video of just a person talking.
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That would be great but I think OP's just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial...