Tim Dedopulos
AmyWhenever I click a news article and it’s a video I’m like, “ok! guess I won’t be learning about that current event!!”
TheJenI hate that so much. Give me transcripts, or give me death. I will not watch a video.
john r red-horse@lolennui
Same. It's a real advantage to restricting myself to using a terminal-based browser to read news. w3m ftw! 😎
Same. It's a real advantage to restricting myself to using a terminal-based browser to read news. w3m ftw! 😎
KanaMauna@lolennui Don’t these giant brains get that I’m fiddling with my phone, sitting at my desk, pretending to write a budget analysis. Right now is not the time for your blaring intro music.
Julie the Godzilla enthusiast@KanaMauna @lolennui exactly why the "pivot to video" never made sense and why Facebook had to lie to convince the companies they ruined to do it.
brooklynmarie
John Cutting@lolennui
Yes! Also, the same response to any recipe or tutorial video...
"Oh f*** me then, I guess I'm going to cook something else then using a different recipe that only takes 30 seconds to read."
Yes! Also, the same response to any recipe or tutorial video...
"Oh f*** me then, I guess I'm going to cook something else then using a different recipe that only takes 30 seconds to read."
gr0k@lolennui also if said news article came from a friend, it is almost without exception one of my less intelligent friends. As a rule people who consume primarily via video seem less intelligent to me. They rarely refer to primary sources, and are almost always regurgitating opinions instead of fact.
@TrexPushups @lolennui the best way to avoid propaganda is to seek out primary sources and ignore clickbait shock jocks. I know everyone learns differently, but reading encourages reader participation, you're actively synthesizing what you consume, whereas being spoonfed an opinion via video is passive consumption. I know no-one is immune, but passive consumers are far more likely to have a partial understanding of anything.
marimo jones@marimo 🤣🤣🤣 you seem to have missed the "as a rule" and "almost without exception" parts of my toot. Don't worry tho, as a rule my friends know where they stand with regards to my opinions as our exchanges are just that, exchanges. Thanks for the presumptions and bad vibes tho 😘
.mabe
Caryn has moved@lolennui Agreed - they take too long to watch/listen to. I always skip them and look for transcripts instead. If there are none I move on.
Gravitas Deficit
SamuelJohnson@lolennui You're not alone.
Also on the pet hate list: articles about new versions of products (mainly software for me) that are endlessly self-referential and effectively addressed to existing users. The nr of times I've scanned for WTAF does this do and come away baffled is not small.
Sue@lolennui I agree! I want to read the news, not watch it. Especially when it forces ads on you first.
Bobby@lolennui They don't care, they shoved a "view" in, the stat graph goes up. Mission achieved, journalism dead.
Newton Webb@lolennui I'm like that with YouTube tutorials. It is an inefficient and lazy method of communication.
And no, I don't want to like and subscribe.
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey
MilesOReilly@lolennui Or a podcast. Videos and podcasts have their place, but they are hugely inefficient in the transmission of information compared to text.
Johan S@lolennui That, and also when they hold the content hostage behind a full-screen "plz accept every cookie ever".
Son of a Sailor@lolennui THIS! I am so tired of video-first news posts. (And don't get me started on Lifehacker's need to show me a completely unrelated video when I try to read an article on their site. 🙄)
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
(((JaneinNJ)))@lolennui You said it!
⚠️☢️⚛️ÅtømïçĆōwbėłł⚛️☢️⚠️@lolennui
(posts 5 minute video response explaining why you’re wrong)
(posts 5 minute video response explaining why you’re wrong)
Wayne Werner
Feynman 🔴
Silme Princess@lolennui reading a news story is so much less activating, because they haven’t figured out how to edit jump cuts and emotionally charged music into the text yet
Kevin@lolennui and the subtitles are nonexistent or crappy. (I am hard of hearing)
Neil Corry@lolennui There must be a stated reason why I should watch rather than read.
Shadow Heart@lolennui alright so I'm not the only one irritated by that.
Gunnar Helliesen
✡️ MG ✡️ #VoteBlue@lolennui That, or when it turns out to be from a pay-walled publication. Ugh!
@knitvspurl @lolennui
Most of the time you can get around this by just disabling javascript in your browser. I do it all the time.
Most of the time you can get around this by just disabling javascript in your browser. I do it all the time.
Chaz Brenchley@lolennui - every time, yup.
Dynomoose
🏳️🌈Superdave! 😘🍷👨🦯@lolennui @spikepoint Same! Let me read the story!!
Sam Adams@lolennui I agree. I'd much rather read and be done with it, but then I'm a print journalist
TarheelPalmetto@lolennui I always wondered if it was only me that did that.
Ty Ross
Ruby S.@lolennui I thought I was the only one
Orange Lantern@lolennui Gods, thank you, finally someone else! I thought I was the only one being annoyed by that. Same with game walkthroughs or technical instructions: Video only? Welp, guess I have to solve that on my own. It's so inefficient! I can read much faster than they can talk.
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉@lolennui @Kclemson I have coworkers and friends that only communicate via recorded videos.
And it was until this year that I learned the proper response to those:
Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)@Migueldeicaza @lolennui @Kclemson
I never hear or answer audio messages. They are awfully slow to process, usually have terrible audio that makes my ears hurt, and I can't hear them anywhere without headphones. To hell with them. Write or call.
Totally agree.
If I want a video, I go to a video site (Youtube, a TV network...), not to a text site (all newspapers). When I go to a text site, I want the main content to be text. Video there is awkward and annoying.
Diabetic Heihachi@lolennui
@thomasfuchs
That's like:
Hello WordPress plugin docs page I need info from...
*It's a page full of grainy 8 minute long videos, the narrator is Ben Stein with a mic that is somehow both too loud and too quiet at the same time.*
CommodoreSpence
HilaryDitto audio. Give me text that I can skim, browse or read in detail as I choose and at my own pace. Maybe a photo or two.
Matsyendrasana@lolennui same with voice notes.
Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦@lolennui I have limited patience for video production nonsense, so skip intros and use the automated CC captioning on youtube, so I can read instead of listening. Sometimes the 2x speed is helpful too :-)
But text news sources *always* get my 👀 over video.
Sean Murthy@lolennui Too many videos. Too long videos too.
(And too many toos too? 😄)
Qole@lolennui
My response to most videos that should be text is, "TV;DW" (Too video; didn't watch).
My response to most videos that should be text is, "TV;DW" (Too video; didn't watch).
@lolennui @joannalaine it’s always a video about something else on CNN usually. 😂
Andy Lowry@lolennui
Yep, me too.
Yep, me too.
Irongeek@lolennui I am totally like this. But my kids are completely the other way - don’t give us text as we have to concentrate fully on that - can absorb a video whilst playing a game / doing homework