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Did someone just say something? I thought I heard an opinion but it must have been the wind. I was born in 84 and I remember there being older kids but I don't really remember much about them. I remember reading magazines and books and having the world revolve around me. I remember having to learn cursive, memorizing math tables, watching Mr. Wizard, I used a rotary phone, and I even understand a file system. Boomers and younger generations don't know how to use a terminal. The only thing that stumps me is the generation between me and the boomers. I remember someone being there but they just sort of blur together with the boomers now like they were always the same thing.

I'm a slow reader and I still find articles faster and easier to parse than videos.

Lmao, "for the love of bananarama" "in Prince's funky name, amen." Who types that?

My favorite trend is where youtubers record a screenshare of a word document they have open on their computer that they proceed to read to me, slowly.

I’m especially delighted when the youtuber selects the text as they read it, as if to make sure I don’t get lost.

ETA: I’m just saying it’s a good thing we streamlined video platform monetization, so 1.6 million other viewers and I can not read that document together. I’m not sure what generation was responsible but, good for them.

I agree completely. The only time I actually see benefit to video over print is with service guides and manuals. Unless you’re including a perfectly detailed exploded view, videos always seem to convey more information.

Conversely, don't send us AI generated filler either, please.

Amen to that, brother.

I fear for the future, because this generation won't know something if it hasn't been tictokified or taught by an "AI".

That would be great but I think OP's just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial...

I wish to buy this person a beer. Also send me tech docs and not a YouTube tutorial where I have to jump ahead of all the bullshit while trying not to miss the useful details.

Millenials also grew up reading everything, it's just that the teen years had the text on a screen. It's Gen Z that really had online video content from the start.

I'm a Millennial. I'd rather burn a house than pick a video from a choice of (video, article).

I’m a boomer and I approve this.

Hallefuckinglujah!

Gen Z'er here, and well, it depends on the topic. TBH I don't read much news at all, unless I see it on social media I'm not gonna know about it. But I will read an article if I care enough. Sometimes I want a quick overview, and some channels/reporters can do informative yet brisk news reports.

But when it comes to educational stuff, me and my fellow high school classmates hated watching a video for homework, and would usually just read the transcript of the video instead (and with ctrl + f, you save even more time). This was funny to my xillennial teacher, as he said schools started using videos because kids hated reading textbooks. And I'm not gonna lie, I fucking hate reading textbooks in college. So we're going full circle it seems.

So long as it's not behind a paywall, or the "article" is just a literal transcription of a video.

I have no problems with videos but ya'll better have a better fucking source.

When I'm looking at my phone, I want the original text so I can ~~read~~ skim it myself.

When I'm not looking at my phone, I want the video so I can continue not looking at my phone.