Says the text based article😅… Load of shit. There’s little I despise more than someone making a video of something that could have been two lines of text or hell, 20 lines of text. Video can be such an expressive medium, stop sitting on the format by using inappropriatly. If anything the pendulum has already swung way too far towards video and hopefully things will rationalize soon. When I have to watch some dumb video, I put captions on and usually just read the captions. Wish there was a tool for YouTube that just extracted whole caption transcripts so I didn’t even need to play the videos.
Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives
Submitted 2 months ago by True@lemy.lol to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/24/1096621/video-cultural-impact-learning-communication/
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you click “see more” in the description, there is a transcription! It’s still kinda pain im the ass, but allows getting through it faster…it’s not perfect tho.
Also. Captions and 2x speed ftw.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
There is a tool like this and I’ve used it. But I forgot about it until now and it only got what was available, an automatic translation too bad to even laugh at. But it should be possible to find it. Dunno, YouTube caption download or something like this should do the trick.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
And Grayjay (Android and maybe iOS app) allows it as well.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 months 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.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 months ago
And that’s the claim I’m rejecting. I think it’s confirmation bias, not a fact that stems from evidence.
True@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Just a life hack for this article and other websites as welll: Disable JavaScript.
fart_pickle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is the hill I’m going to die on. I will continue to ingest text or die trying.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Videos take too long to skim thru and parse yourself, I wanna get to the keywords
jdeath@lemm.ee 2 months ago
they so so fucking intolerably slow to get any amount of information out of. useless for sharing any information
Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. I like both. But if I want the gist of something fast or am not in an environment or situation I can sit and watch without disturbing or being disturbed by others. I want text. No fiddling with a progress bar to get back to where I was. Quick easy done. At home I’ll watch videos all day. But it will never be as efficient.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Imagine that this reply comment thread is a series of videos.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yep.
I do plenty of audiobooks for longer form content, where I know I want all of it. But I absolutely have no interest in having 10 paragraphs turned into a 10 minute video.