The pivot to video. I yearn for written tech guides or automotive process with well written instructions and detailed pictures. The fact that so much of the info once found in text is now pivoting to some chucklefuck holding his iPhone in one hand while trying to show you how to do a two handed job is extremely aggravating. Don’t even get me started on the need to sift through a 25 minute long tech video because you need to find that one step that you missed.
Video is so fucking low effort and annoying.
Yes! Gawd. I can read so much faster than they can speak, I retain the knowledge much better when I read, it's easier to search through written instructions for something specific, and I'm not always somewhere I can just blast audio.
You can also reference text easily. If you want to go back and revisit a procedure or certain steps, it’s easily done with text.
Pretty soon you will be able to summarize the video transcript with ai. That's the same thing, right?
blast audio
That didn't even come to mind while i was typing this out, but yeah, I can't always just blast a video.
Good morning YouTube today I am going to show YOU, how to wire a receptacle.
heavy metal intro music and graphic lasting 20 seconds
Alright so today we are going to wire a receptacle. For this job you are going to need a flat head screwdriver. I got this one from home Depot. You don't need anything fancy, this one was eight dollars. If you don't have a screw driver you can buy one on Amazon, I'll put my affiliate link below.
Voice over if you like this video please subscribe, and don't forget to hit the bell so you don't miss any new content
proceeds to talk about youtube drama with the other receptacle wiring youtubers for a couple more minutes
shills own tshirt store because google keeps most of the ad revenue
actual tutorial is 30 fucking seconds
long winded outro, like and subscribe and click the bell for more incredible receptacle wiring content
It's the same thing as trying to read a recipe and it starts with an essay about "I first tasted this dish while on vacation in Tuscany with my husband Bob and our dog Scoochie (luv you Scoochie! here's a picture of Scoochie sniffing an acorn.) We stayed at this lovely bed and breakfast and waking every morning to the sights and smells of the Italian countryside. Now, you can use any raisins but the preferred type are called Mariocastellani Pizzaluigi and are only grown in the Fettuccine Valley of the Rigatoni province. They taste like apples and peaches on a breezy afternoon when there's a hint of rain on the horizon while an old man named Alfredo Formaggio chain smokes and watches futbol (we call it soccer!) on a wood panel television set. In the afternoon Scoochie took a giant shit in my ass and I died of dogshitanosis. Bob joined the navy and had a bunch of gay sex. So for starters you'll need three cups of unenriched oat flour..."
I will defend the gastronomical essay followed by a recipe as a worthwhile literary genre that can be enjoyable to read. The essay can be seen as an aid to understand the vibes and cultural context of a dish that can not be conveyed simply by a list of ingredients and some instructions.
Most online recipes are not that though. The text before the actual recipe is just filler crap written by people who cannot write with the sole purpose of cramming in SEO keywords, affiliate links and banner ads.
If they put the essay after the ingredients and ratios I got no problem. If I have to scroll through shit to find out if it's 1/2 or 1/3 teaspoon cream of tartar while the the clock is ticking and I'm dealing with hot shit coming out of the oven I'm gonna get my feathers ruffled. So I guess I do agree with you, sometimes it can be pleasant to read that stuff. Dammit why do you gotta be all reasonable about this stuff.
remembering the time Facebook lied about the popularity of video, and an entire industry was reorganized around that lie
And now that Google doesn’t work videos are the only thing I can even fucking find that has accurate information that isn’t completely made up
One of the main reasons adding reddit to search terms is so popular I think, everything there is still text based
hate videos with a burning passion - they are generally extraneous, inefficient time wasting pablum.
lately all of the major search engines are bringing up hallucinated garbage thats written as the AI decided it should work, not how it actually works. its pretty unnerving, actually.
I feel this so hard.
My learning style is predominantly through written text and me just doing it myself. It's nice to have videos for explainers for programming here and there, but if I'm trying to tackle a new lang I need it to be written out. But every mofo dev that understands the concepts and wants to teach for ad revenue is stuck doing YouTube videos.
every mofo dev that understands the concepts and wants to teach for ad revenue is stuck doing YouTube videos.
Bingo! The reason everything is moving to video is not that people want it or that the video medium is inherently better than written text to convey information. The reason is the profit motive, it is easier to monetize videos than text by infecting it with advertising.
Show
Sorry, we can only do a 10 minute video with an ad break in the middle.
this guy never sprocketgran'd his flux, no wonder you had to remove the gasket pumpy first
I'm 100% with you on this one. Text based things are easier to skim and search. It's dreadful when you're only missing one piece of a large puzzle, but you've got to scan through a long video trying to find the part where what you're looking for is addressed. It could usually be explained in under a paragraph.
It's the ability to search for me! Absolutely infuriating how much time gets wasted skipping around a video...
I love when trying to find out something about a specific part in a video game and can only find let's play videos or a video that wastes several minutes of my time.
Retvrn to GameFAQs plaintext with ASCII art logos. Shout out to that one guy who's made a guide for every Yakuza game, you're much better than any troop
There are specific video tutorials that are clear, to the point, and specify every detail so there is no confusion on what you're doing regardless of your level of knowledge going in.
They exist, I've seen them, its magical having my hand held and being walked through a task I was confused about.
However they make up about 2% of all video tutorials
Even those ate terrible for later referencing/recapping something in particular.
Exactly, most of them are either shaky garbage or just entirely too much fluff and wasted time.
According to commentators, however, it was in reality driven by advertising; only advertisers, not consumers, prefer video over text.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video
Real.
A large percentage of my job relies on giving instructions to the dumbest motherfuckers you've ever interacted with. I try to make it SUUUPER simple for people by including bullet points and/or numbered steps. It'll be shit like:
- Sign into your account
- Navigate to the area you're having trouble with
- Do this
- Done
Inevitably, I will get some fucker daily who is like "that's too much
can you please send me a video" fuck off no just read what I sent youI have run into this in customer support roles A LOT. Many time's its because we would only provide support in English. They could just put it through google translate and get the gist of it, but wont...
Many time's its because we would only provide support in English. They could just put it through google translate and get the gist of it, but wont...
the fucked up thing is that, in my 6+ years of working at this specific job, I have found that the foreign language clients who reach out are NEVER as fucking helpless as the people from English speaking countries (I'm primarily talking about the US/UK/Australia). We actually run shit through Google Translate in the event someone writes in in like Swedish or Japanese & send our replies back translated; so I'd completely understand if someone wrote back in with like a "こんにちは。説明が理解できません。翻訳が間違っていると思います。ビデオを送ってもらえますか?" (Hi I can't understand those instructions I think they were translated wrong can you send a video?)
But no, this will be people who are native English speakers and they will fucking lose their shit if they get a succinct email back that puts each individual step into bullet points. "I DON'T LIKE READING EMAILS IT IS TOO HARD TO FOLLOW ALONG PLEASE SEND A VIDEO OR CAN WE SET UP A ZOOM SCREEN SHARING SESSION??" to which I reply no.
fuuuuuck, the request for a screen share or team's call is even worse. read and go away!!!!!
Computers should never have been allowed to play video, we must retvrn
Text guides and video guides both have their place depending on what is being taught and the needs of the learner. What makes a guide suck or not isn't the media format but whether the guide was made by someone who wants to teach people or by someone trying to make "content".
needs of the learner.
Very fair point, my gripe is because of my own learning style for sure.
As long as GameFAQs still exists every single video "guide" is completely useless.
Agreed on the pictures, or at least short and to the point video steps
I'm so tired of looking for cooking or other tutorials and the video is 10 minutes long for a 2 minute task, with 3 minutes of the video dedicated to some scam ad segment and a further three minutes begging for subscribers
I recently got a bunch of encyclopedia-sized cookbooks from a dead relative and they’re so much better than googling for recipes.
I think the answer is going back to books. The internet is over.
