Context: This referenced post is just click/rage-bait and intentionally mixes up completely unrelated things.
Youtube has its problems, its also a modern miracle. Seriously the fact that it exists at all is insane. Youtube is the post 2000 public library for wanting to learn about damn near anything.
Written is a superior form 🤷♂️
A lot of people struggle to read, and it’s kind of sad. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ was an interesting post about it (available as a podcast and transcripts).
That said, some people really just do wallow and the slop and that’s an embarrassment.
If reading is like eating, then watching a video is the tube feeding thing (the tube that they put through your nose).
Video is simply superior when my brain’s at 50%.
A picture is only worth 1000 words, but a comment can be, like, 10,000 words.
The character limit is the sky 🫀
YT hates people who know more than one language.
It is so annoying that it just translates everything. I hate auto translate. I hate that the video names and descriptions are affected too.
I want to suggest to YouTubers that on a Peertube, you can say fuck, you can claim fair use when it’s fair use, you can talk about Israel and Gaza with the full words, you can play video games that show adult concepts, etc.
I don’t think people realize by now how much pressure on their thinking has come from the idea they might get demonetized. And you’ll still have Patreon.
