SugarCunt (they)Dec 9, 2022

re LRT: https://metalhead.club/@bestiaexmachina/109476684872809432

Seriously one of my least favorite internet changes in the last decade.

Do I want video options available to those they benefit? Yes, 100%.

But please, rest of the internet, my lil #ADHD brain begs you, don't stop doing things like:

writing text guides!
updating how-tos/wikis!
writing blogs and forum posts!

I PROMISE y'all are excluding ppl from the conversation by pivoting to video-only.

#SCWOTZ #SCWNT #SCWDisa

Sciasm (@[email protected])

Huh, I wonder what [thing] is. *searches online* *opens article* *article is actually a video* WELP, guess I'll never know! *closes tab*

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Show threadSugarCunt (they)

whether it's on a video inline or an external link to one...

like, we do all acknowledge that there is a segment of people who will not actually start the video at all, right?

Independent of other access needs like captioning and audio description,

you'd be amazed at the myriad reasons your friends, not even just your #ADHD friends, are not actually watching the video you send with info.

My NP had to start being like "it's 30 seconds, not loud, funny animal vid". 😅

#SCWOTZ #SCWNT #SCWDisa

Dec 9, 2022 at 3:06amWeb
Show threadSugarCunt (they)Dec 9, 2022

At least knowing I don't need to carve 5 minutes out of my nebulous void of ~things that are happening~ (official adhd block of time) when my NP tells me, "It's less than a minute long and won't stress you out" helps

but like, oh shit y'all, I am REALLY tired of how many Minecraft LPs I have to sit through and then rewind through just to figure out how to build something.

I APPRECIATE the info exists. I need a text list and that ain't it.

#SCWOTZ #SCWNT #SCWDisa

Show threadSugarCunt (they)Dec 9, 2022

I'm sure there are plenty of folks across many branches of neuro(a)typicality who benefit more from video and find that content the easier to take in. I want that content to exist for them too!

But ALSO, sometimes, a list doesn't need to be a five minute video with the contents of the list.

#SCWOTZ #SCWNT #SCWDisa

Show threadalliecatDec 9, 2022
@sugarCunt this. Video walkthroughs are useful for clarifying things that are ambiguous or unclear in text walkthroughs but fuuuuuuuck the pivot to video by default
Show threadSugarCunt (they)Dec 9, 2022

@alliecat precisely! It's been such a killer!

I always worry it's easy for people to take these statements as alarmist, 'Oh NO nobody will READ',

but it's more like, 'Oh NO, social media and algorithmic bias trending toward predominantly video is making it difficult to learn from information being conveyed in that less effective and useful format, and more difficult to search up that info presented in a format that works for my brain'