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Every serious psych journal has had at least one published review on the damage that short attention span media causes

But it's always ignored in favor of corporate profit streams and complacence.

Bro, I can't be assed to watch a 10 minute video where a third of the content is intro/outro/ad read/filler, even at 2x speed. The information density of a ten minute video by a typical growth hacking youtuber is like aerogel. Why would you want to watch a shitty video, SEO'd to the top of the search results, that will take so long to get you the information you need? That's the behavior I see from the zoomers. They will actually choose to watch these shitty infotainment videos instead of doing real fucking research.

A YouTube video is absolutely the worst possible way to deliver information. It's fine for entertainment, whatever. But if I'm troubleshooting something, the last fucking thing I want to do is stop what I'm doing and watch ZzZl0rp89 blather on for 8 minutes about his merch, patreon, his other channel, read an ad for Factor, and spend 3 minutes with pointless set up before he gets to the actual problem.

Even IF your specific problem has been blessed by somebody who's made a simple 2 minute video tutorial, it would still be faster and easier to digest that information in text. I can scroll to the point where I'm already at and start from there, rather than watch this guy open 2 dozen windows first. I can search within the tech to see if my problem is actually addressed here in about 2 seconds.

It's infuriating that YouTube has become the primary method for delivering troubleshooting information when you end up searching for it.