There are tons of DIY video that didn't really feature the person's face, or isn't really necessary.

Binging with Babish didn't even show his face until he was popular: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

He basically popularized a whole genre of "here are my rolled-up sleeved forearms doing things" video framing.

He has some really nice looking forearms though.

Voice quality, speaking mannerisms, etc. are extremely critical. Probably more so that visual. It's a major boon having a charismatic personality whether you look good or not.

A video with just poor sound quality (bad mics, noise) but otherwise excellent is nearly unwatchable. Same with a nasally, monotone, dry and boring speaker.

Right. For example, the lockpicking lawyer has millions of views. I have not seen every video, but the ones I've seen do not feature any faces, just lockpicking.

I think voice is more problematic. There are a bunch of channel that I would love content wise, but that I find straining to watch for more than a few minutes because of the audio/acoustic quality or their voices and dialects/accents. The latter, not to be mean and it is not the peoples fault, but not everyone has a voice that is pleasant to everyone else to listen to for extended periods of time.

or for people not wanting to watch videos. if a video is a supplemental part of a well written blog, then so be it. however, the video tends to be replacing the well written blog while leaving out the finer details the blog once provided.

I think it's a combination of a lot of people are more biased towards watching a video than reading compared to some of us AND the fact the a lot of people find it a lot easier to narrate a video than it is to write a decent blog post especially if they also have to add photos etc.

I have a theory that half the population struggles with reading. They can read to get by but they find reading an article or blog post to be a struggle and certainly not entertaining.

Even if that's an exaggeration, I think there are lots of people who would much rather watch a video than read more than a paragraph or so.

Have you SEEN ElectroBoom and his monobrow?

:)

I'm looking forward to the day when I can walk, unplucked, down the US streets and not get funny looks due to remnants of my middle-eastern heritage!

LONG LIVE THE BROW!

As a huge ElectroBoom fan I’ve got to say the monobrow is actually part of the charm.

CGP Grey.