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Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by WastingMyTime89 on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:43AM (#33316514)
Short video is a terrible medium.

I am already on the fence regarding long videos. They are a rarely paying off time investment next to reading the equivalent article.

Short videos are an immediate no from me. It’s never worth the investment. Realistically if it could be written in a script fitting a TikTok video it’s not going to go deeply into anything.

Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by newswasboring on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:13AM (#33316888)
I will have to completely disagree on this one. The amount of excel I've learnt from my TikTok fyp is genuinely unprecedented in my life. It feels like passive learning because they appear between my other interests like history or comedy. Specially stuff like archeology is specially condusive to this format.
Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by ycombigator on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:53AM (#33316613)
Depends.

If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.

Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by UncleMeat on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:50AM (#33317413)
Short video is a different medium. Like it or not, TikTok is encouraging creation of new culture via its particular creation tools.
Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by boringg on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:04AM (#33317629)
While damaging peoples ability to have an attention station.
Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by dicknuckle on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:32AM (#33318039)
I never had one in the first place so none of it makes a difference to me.
Re:Guy turned his eye into a flashlight by HeyLaughingBoy on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:56AM (#33318388)
And the reality is that different people learn best through different means. I can't stand video as a learning medium for software-related topics, but to each their own.