If my friend sends me a TikTok as a source of information, I'm gonna start questioning my choices in friends (/s but also sorta not)
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Zoomer here! Written articles are amazing for fast information, and I go to them when I want a solution to something I already have a decent understanding of. Videos are especially nice for something you haven't done before and want a real-time breakdown of the information.
I don’t need or want a video to do that for me though? I can breakdown information on my own as long as it’s presented to me, I don’t want everything spoon fed to me
Did someone just say something? I thought I heard an opinion but it must have been the wind. I was born in 84 and I remember there being older kids but I don't really remember much about them. I remember reading magazines and books and having the world revolve around me. I remember having to learn cursive, memorizing math tables, watching Mr. Wizard, I used a rotary phone, and I even understand a file system. Boomers and younger generations don't know how to use a terminal. The only thing that stumps me is the generation between me and the boomers. I remember someone being there but they just sort of blur together with the boomers now like they were always the same thing.
Conversely, don't send us AI generated filler either, please.
I wish to buy this person a beer. Also send me tech docs and not a YouTube tutorial where I have to jump ahead of all the bullshit while trying not to miss the useful details.
I'm a slow reader and I still find articles faster and easier to parse than videos.
I agree completely. The only time I actually see benefit to video over print is with service guides and manuals. Unless you’re including a perfectly detailed exploded view, videos always seem to convey more information.
And especially fuck the manuals that lump an entire product line into one manual (looking at you, HP) when they can have wildly different hardware
That would be great but I think OP's just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial...
Millenials also grew up reading everything, it's just that the teen years had the text on a screen. It's Gen Z that really had online video content from the start.
Gen Z'er here, and well, it depends on the topic. TBH I don't read much news at all, unless I see it on social media I'm not gonna know about it. But I will read an article if I care enough. Sometimes I want a quick overview, and some channels/reporters can do informative yet brisk news reports.
But when it comes to educational stuff, me and my fellow high school classmates hated watching a video for homework, and would usually just read the transcript of the video instead (and with ctrl + f, you save even more time). This was funny to my xillennial teacher, as he said schools started using videos because kids hated reading textbooks. And I'm not gonna lie, I fucking hate reading textbooks in college. So we're going full circle it seems.
Hallefuckinglujah!
I have no problems with videos but ya'll better have a better fucking source.
So long as it's not behind a paywall, or the "article" is just a literal transcription of a video.
It's funny that they think there's any sort of easy way to get from a TikTok to an article.
You're supposed to watch tiktoks at 2x.
Ugh. Hate that so much info is forcing search results to lead with video results because adspace. 20 minute video on how to fold a towel when a single image with a few lines of text would do.
Absolutely.
When I'm looking at my phone, I want the original text so I can ~~read~~ skim it myself.
When I'm not looking at my phone, I want the video so I can continue not looking at my phone.