@bestiaexmachina
"Here's a guaranteed million dollars"
Uh huh
"Just press play"
I'm out

@bestiaexmachina See, I wouldn't mind this if I knew I was clicking on a video, but when I think it's an article, I get mad.

@bestiaexmachina

And it can get worse, if accidentally or automatically starting the video there is a music track added to the narrator's voice track.

That got a lot of websites into the block list of my firewall.

@bestiaexmachina is leider schade aber sind dir halt die Hände gebunden. Du hast alles versucht, aber wenn es nicht geht dann geht es nicht.

@bestiaexmachina "what if we had a wiki for our game"

"no what if we just had a bunch of nothing burger youtubers make little videos for everything in our game"

"oh?"

@bestiaexmachina I thought that was just me 😅

@bestiaexmachina

If the video-makers who explain how computer stuff works want me to hang around to watch their video, they better be using some kind of magnifier, because I don't have time for blurry artifact slurry.

@bestiaexmachina
Me: dear internet, I would like 1 (one) salient piece of information
The internet: here is a selection of 3 hour long videos that don't match your search criteria.

@bestiaexmachina I'm exactly the same, let me read please!

@bestiaexmachina Same

@bestiaexmachina @grantdenkinson hard same. This is why I’ve never gotten into TikTok!

@bestiaexmachina Story of my life.

@bestiaexmachina To my surprise, more recently I'm finding video is a reasonable thing, provided (a) it has subtitles, (b) I can play it at 2x speed, and (c) it's from someone who actually knows how to do video, and knows the subject.

I've always been an "immediate close" kinda person, but I'm lately a bit more nuanced.

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I keep hoping videos will go away.

At least share a transcript I can read in seconds. Even if it is a step by step video. I don't need the chatter. Labeled slides would be 100% better.

@bestiaexmachina
As our kindergarten teachers told us, "Use your words!"

@bestiaexmachina This. If the promise of an article turns out to be a lie, nope okay see you BYEEEE

@bestiaexmachina
Yup. Even when I'm looking for "how to do this" and the page that's supposed to explain it turns out to be a video tutorial.
Well, then I don't.

@bestiaexmachina every once in awhile, there is a transcript of the video, and I gratefully read the transcript

@bestiaexmachina ugh same, this is the actual worst

@bestiaexmachina Video is one second long

"tl;dw"

@bestiaexmachina been there done that 🤭

@bestiaexmachina Same with podcasts.

@bestiaexmachina yup. Or when you look and the video is like, 38 minutes long.

Nooooope.

@bestiaexmachina Whyyyyy do people do this? It's so awful!

@bestiaexmachina I'm beginning to think that there's a definite bias on mastodon towards my sort of nerd. :)

@bestiaexmachina Especially when it starts with an ad.

@bestiaexmachina same, I have very little patience with video content versus just reading stuff 🤣

@bestiaexmachina OMG this is me, too! Don't give me a video, just tell me about it.

I know I'm in the minority, though.

@bestiaexmachina I HATE mandatory videos

@bestiaexmachina Sammmmmmme

@bestiaexmachina so annoying

@bestiaexmachina Same here. I am living with a sensory issue that mandates that 1. I dictate the speed of intake of information and 2. I can chose if one or more channels are needed. In most cases, video does provide neither, in the other cases (proper captions, embedded texts) always hitting pause is suboptimal.

@bestiaexmachina Yeah, this is me.

I need my information now, and in a manner that I can digest at my own pace, thanks.

@bestiaexmachina oh damn. I feel seen..every single time

@bestiaexmachina Me too!

@bestiaexmachina I totally relate…

@bestiaexmachina @rLok Why is this such a relatable mood? 😂​

Same

@bestiaexmachina Yup ... as a writer I also try to explain that to my clients when it comes to videos ... always have captions ... keep it short ... and think about an all-text alt.

@bestiaexmachina YESSSS oh my gawwwd

@bestiaexmachina This is absolutely true for me in most formats, platforms. If I want a video of something, I go looking for it on purpose. Not something random that's plopped in front of me which might be good, or might be frustrating clickbait. Me making a curious guess with 5-10 min of my life? Nope. Never gonna happen.

@bestiaexmachina I. DO. THIS.

@bestiaexmachina I feel all of that. I did a "learning style" poll recently that came out at 0% auditory 😂​

@bestiaexmachina ha! Are we twins?

@bestiaexmachina I know how you feel! I'd much rather read. I can extract the important information a lot faster than watching someone waffle on without getting to the point.

@bestiaexmachina oh my god yes

@bestiaexmachina Do these people not understand I’m *already* watching a video— or music or talking and that’s why I looked it up??? who said I had my full attention free for this nonsense?

@bestiaexmachina
My related experience: how do I do [small, very precise thing] in [3D software package]?

* only documentation, official or otherwise, is in ~1 hour long videos, 99% of which cover stuff I already know about *

@bestiaexmachina I hate how everything has gone to video now. I handle text much easier. Hell, I handle pure audio easier, though I’d definitely prefer easily skim able text.

@bestiaexmachina @Mlep pivot FROM video

@bestiaexmachina same. I read so much faster than I can absorb info from a video.

@bestiaexmachina In most cases that is exactly what I would do.

@bestiaexmachina Same.

@bestiaexmachina
I, too, miss the days when it was more likely than not that if you had a question with a simple straightforward answer, you could find that answer in written form rather than four minutes in to a ten minute video, with an interstitial "don't forget to subscribe!" halfway through the (often wrong or outdated) answer.

@bestiaexmachina I know it’s because I am old and used the internet when it was only text, but I will forever want to read things first. Videos are for entertainment, or learning how to fix my dishwasher pump motor.

@bestiaexmachina This is absolutely me (including the “welp”)!

@bestiaexmachina How about those"Articles" that are like 89 slides with a stock image and one sentence on each?

@bestiaexmachina - oh, so very much this. So very.

@bestiaexmachina I feel seen. And I have a family.

@bestiaexmachina My kingdom for a transcript!

@bestiaexmachina same, very much so. I take in info better by reading than listening, I can read way faster than a video can talk (even at 2x), I can *search* text, if I save a copy I can easily look things up later... unless it is a demonstration where a video really is worth a thousand words (which can happen), I want text and back out of videos if I accidentally land there.

Complex cooking technique? Video is great. Schematic? Diagrams work. Explanation of a concept? Send words.

@bestiaexmachina always pivot from video

@bestiaexmachina except for when I want a video.... Then the video is approximately 20 minutes long for something that could be 2 minutes. 😡😡😡

@bestiaexmachina I'm the exact opposite. My ADHD brain needs full immersion with as many of my senses engaged as possible.

What, I'm supposed to just read this long text? With my eyeballs? Ugh. *close*

@bestiaexmachina
Not necessarily
https://www.summarize.tech/

@bestiaexmachina seriously. I hate it when they replace articles with videos

@bestiaexmachina #this

@bestiaexmachina Is it just me or is that getting more and more common lately?

@bestiaexmachina this is totally me! I'm too impatient for them to get to the point in a video, when I can just read it faster.

@bestiaexmachina very much same

@bestiaexmachina The worst version of this is when it's instructions!

@bestiaexmachina

Me: *sighs*....*presses play*

2 minutes of adverts starts

*forgets why the hell I went there in the first place*

*nopes out so hard me feets dunt touch the ground*

@bestiaexmachina I do this a lot

@bestiaexmachina It me

@bestiaexmachina All the way there and back again—totally the same.

No I don’t care. No, really, don’t walk me through all that, I already know how to do all that. No, no, I don’t want to get your free pack of thingamajigs by subscribing to your whatsamathing. No, no, nooooo, your missing the point, no, really I’m fine, I just, oh forget it.

@bestiaexmachina I found my people

@bestiaexmachina yep. Also: slideshows.

@bestiaexmachina lol yes 100%!

@bestiaexmachina I’m feeling a bit called-out by this.

@bestiaexmachina omg also me!

@bestiaexmachina boosted for extreme truth

@bestiaexmachina I can't even stand video tutorials. Give me that text and animated GIFs.

@bestiaexmachina or worse -- a SLIDE SHOW.

@bestiaexmachina I am not a video person. I won't watch them if I can possibly avoid them. They take way more time to get their messages across than writing does and my time is too valuable to me to spend that way.

@bestiaexmachina omg, yessssss 😂😭

@bestiaexmachina see also: a podcast

@bestiaexmachina yes.

@bestiaexmachina _ For me, it's more like:

WELP, guess I'll learn about that later *adds to "watch later list" that never gets watched later*

@bestiaexmachina @lauowolf Right? My ever-existing request mantra for video-making people is: always include a transcript if you want more widespread uptake of your information.

@bestiaexmachina omg me too. Just write it, lol.

@bestiaexmachina @freddie I am just waiting until AI can watch the video for me and write an article for it.

@bestiaexmachina
Relatable. I love well-produced videos, but it's not for everything.

@bestiaexmachina yea I've become mistrustful of giving my time over to someone who doesn't respect the density or sparsity I need

@bestiaexmachina
Or: "Here is an article but you won't have read more than two words before a video automatically launches and plays."

@bestiaexmachina that and also crochet patterns that turn out to be videos.

I don't want to crochet-a-long. Your pattern has no complex stitches that need explaining. Please just write down your pattern. I'll even pay for it. I wanna watch TV while I crochet!

@bestiaexmachina
Same.

@bestiaexmachina OMG same. 99% of the time I do not want a video to explain things, I want written words with maybe some useful illustrations or pictures. I want to consume at my own speed and without having to either put on headphones or annoy other people around me.

@bestiaexmachina I feel this in my ADHD bones

@bestiaexmachina I’m convinced that no one has ever wanted to watch a video when looking for an article and yet they’re embedded damn near *everywhere*