Comment on Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Paywall, so I’m just going to respond to the title’s premise.
Video is relatively new, sure, but it will never replace text. The two supplement each other, and that’s been the case since YouTube first came out.
TikTok exists, but so did Vine, until it didn’t. What’s on the rise (again) is podcasts. Meanwhile, text has existed for thousands of years and continues to exist alongside video and audio. So I don’t think text is going anywhere, and what little I could read of the article sounds like someone experiencing the Dunning-Kruger Effect and confirmation bias who hasn’t actually done any historical or anthropological research.
Sounds about right for someone terminally on TikTok.
What’s on the rise (again) is podcasts.
What’s also on the rise is videos being called podcasts but with no RSS feed.
I called someone out for this on YT and must have gotten a dozen replies telling me to STFU and no one cares. Really makes me hopeless for humanity.
Video is relatively new, sure, but it will never replace text
The problem is that, for most people, it has. They’re not willing to read.
And that’s the claim I’m rejecting. I think it’s confirmation bias, not a fact that stems from evidence.
I see it daily with most people I interact with in multiple, varied communities (and no, I don’t and refuse to use those platforms, because video content is shit).
They will not read two paragraphs of text. They will happily spend hours churning through junk short videos.
I get it. That’s still confirmation bias, because in comparison, the people that I’m around read often. Our individual experiences are not good ways to determine what people in general are doing.
Just a life hack for this article and other websites as welll: Disable JavaScript.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Plus, there’s something to be said for efficiency. Text takes up very little disk space, where video takes up a lot of disk space. I hear of people that use like a terabyte worth of data per month on their internet connections. And personally, I can’t even get over 100 gigs, even with downloading books and watching some YouTube.