You can blame things like YouTube for forum posts like that drying up. Why read when I can watch a video? (This does not reflect my opinion, merely the very simple thinking many people employ.)
You’re not wrong on that thought. But it’s even worse: with TikTok and YouTube Shorts, people aren’t even really seeing proper YouTube videos, just short snippets. God only knows what that’s doing to people’s attention spans, but I doubt it’s good.
I feel like I’m a dying breed: people who can enjoy long form content without needing a dopamine hit every five seconds.
And the algorithm is oushing creators to either do shorts or long content it seems. There are few videos in the 3-10 minute range any more. It’s either 90 seconds or 45 minutes. Most of the shit I want to watch lands in 30-60mins but I don’t have the time to dedicate to them often.
Personally, I’m a really long form guy :D Particularly on technical subjects and/or disasters. For example, ‘Well there’s your problem’ tends to run at least 2, usually closer to 3 hours. And ‘Brick Immortar’ recently put out a 3+ hour video on the SS Marine Electric disaster.
That’s the stuff that really makes me excited. So I definitely support loooong form creators where possible.
You can blame things like YouTube for forum posts like that drying up. Why read when I can watch a video? (This does not reflect my opinion, merely the very simple thinking many people employ.)
I dislike how everything is marching to video. I hate watching four paragraphs of information in a 26 minute video.
Just give me the information in a readable format, FFS.
You’re not wrong on that thought. But it’s even worse: with TikTok and YouTube Shorts, people aren’t even really seeing proper YouTube videos, just short snippets. God only knows what that’s doing to people’s attention spans, but I doubt it’s good.
I feel like I’m a dying breed: people who can enjoy long form content without needing a dopamine hit every five seconds.
And the algorithm is oushing creators to either do shorts or long content it seems. There are few videos in the 3-10 minute range any more. It’s either 90 seconds or 45 minutes. Most of the shit I want to watch lands in 30-60mins but I don’t have the time to dedicate to them often.
Personally, I’m a really long form guy :D Particularly on technical subjects and/or disasters. For example, ‘Well there’s your problem’ tends to run at least 2, usually closer to 3 hours. And ‘Brick Immortar’ recently put out a 3+ hour video on the SS Marine Electric disaster.
That’s the stuff that really makes me excited. So I definitely support loooong form creators where possible.