I could not agree more. Finding succinct written information on the internet feels more difficult every day.

But that's not all about it. You probably don't know amount of courses available on YouTube. Chemistry, medicine, engineering, mathematics and what not.

Which, if people weren’t aware, is also a consequence of ads. It’s so the creator can get a mid-video ad. Even if you pay for yt premium, you’re still getting a garbage experience because creators fluff out videos to hit the higher minute mark.

Some videos are drawn out but lost aren’t. People will drop if the video gets too boring. It’s also very easy to skip in video ads or forward or reverse to the most replayed part of the video.

I find it’s pretty unusual to find something being taught in a YouTube video that couldn’t be learned from a book, repair manual/schematics, or a university course. Nothing’s stopping you from seeking out written material instead, especially if you’d be willing to pay people to _stop_ making videos.

The obvious reality here is that RandyLahey1989 from Halifax probably isn’t going to start a Substack about snowmobile repair, nor would anyone read it if he did, but his video on replacing the carb in a 2011 Switchback has hundreds of comments thanking him for his help. Wouldn’t you agree the internet’s a better place for giving Randy the chance to share his domain knowledge (and get paid for it)?

I seriously think the “everything should be an article” crowd is a bit disconnected with how the average person prefers to create. The future of consumption is video for a growing majority of internet users, one would be a fool to pretend otherwise.

I’m eagerly awaiting the day when some pirate site feeds the videos through a machine learning thingy and outputs an appropriate length text summary, with an appropriate number of screenshots for following along.

I’d want the summary and images to be verbatim from the video, but for it to strip crap like “hey, it’s been a while since I made my last video, as you can see behind me, nessie the cow is caught in a tree in my vertical farm wall again, which you can see another video about. Today, we are going to explain how to open this laptop, but first I’m going to talk about [product placement]”