I think there's also a kind of vicious cycle that's been happening, which I noticed when I was looking up how to do stuff in Minecraft for my kids -- you can't *find* anything that's not a video. Because of how video is incentivized, both makers and Google et al direct people to it
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That crap drives my bonkers. I love certain genres of video but I miss the internet when there were so many sources of really good text content. Message boards & blogs & GameFAQs were great I'd get lost in things I didn't even have a special interest in. Video takes so much time with so much filler.
It's especially egregious when I need to do something that requires both hands like computer repair. With a text guide I can just glance at it while I follow step by step, but with video I keep having to pause, reverse back to catch what they said, etc.
I remember Apple used to have PDF manuals that came in printable and screen size versions that you could page through easily on a MacBook screen. That sort of thing makes more sense than ever with tablets being so common but I guess video is easier to monetize?
Video tutorials explaining how to code X kind of function are the best because you have to hastily scribble down a load of Python or whatever and still get it wrong; just a complete disconnect between the tech and use case.
With recipes it’s sorta understandable in that the recipe itself is explicitly not copyright-able (and this is a good thing) so if you’re trying to creat a brand it’s all in the preamble. And at less then you can just control-down-arrow to get to the useful information. Video is just all bad.
And now I am reminded of how multiple people, back in the day, commented on how folk singers often had to have five minutes of explanation before they could sing a ninety second song.
This is just the logical extension of the recipe web page
Butter Chicken
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I also find myself screaming at the top of my lungs at these videos with some variation of "Just tell me what the fucking settings are already and keep your zen bullshit to yourself!!!"
