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YES! This 1000x! I hate how ever damn thing is a freaking video now!

“Let’s review still image quality of latest mcgizmo phones… via video!” “Let’s turn a 3 minute read into a mindless 45 minute video for “engagement””




It’s nice when there are both.

Text and video are good at different things, telling the same story twice in different formats is rewarding to both you and your audience and there’s lots of overlap.


Yeah true. In a perfect world we’d get that. In an imperfect world gimme text and pics lol.


It also depends on __when__ you are consuming the material. I always need to do something while eating, and since my hands are often tied, a *video* format works better as I can just hit play without having to scroll or click on things. In other times though, I prefer text with images, especially if it's a static website without annoying JS.


Yeah that is true, too. I will say, on my end, if I am eating and watching a video it is generally just entertainment consumption like an actual TV show or a movie. I rarely spend that time to watch a video review of something.

But I definitely can understand a desire for both options.




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