Post a pithy hot-take in text? Nobody reads.
Post a screenshot of the same text from a social media site? That’s bussin!I know plenty of people that “can read fast.” Unfortunately, they don’t comprehend anything they read until they slow the fuck down.
I’m millennial and i hate those videos too
Everyone that’s functionally literate hates those videos
If my friend sends me a TikTok as a source of information, I’m gonna start questioning my choices in friends (/s but also sorta not)
I think the proliferation of videos as primary information sources is a huge part of how propaganda and disinformation became so effective and powerful. It’s why we’ve done a collective nosedive into regressive politics and can no longer agree on the objective facts regarding… well… anything!
Information delivered by video tends to be trusted on the way it’s delivered rather than the content itself. So we’re thinking less critically about what we choose to believe.
While I agree that the pivot to video was a massive turning point in the dumbing down of political discourse, I think it’s more to do with the pace and passive nature of video/audio: the people are getting news and ideas at the cadence that the broadcaster deems appropriate instead of at the pace of the listener which would happen in reading or face to face transmission.
If something was missed entirely or misunderstood it is far more tedious to try and hunt down the segment that needs reiteration than it is to read it again (or ask for clarification). This means people that miss something will just try to pick up any context later in the broadcast and if the broadcaster doesn’t deem it important or relevant (or maliciously omits it), the listener has no further interaction with the idea. And then the idea is lost beneath the rest of the news agglomeration.
Also: Please just give us the f’ing text instead of a screenshot of text.
I am a Millenial and I prefer to read than to watch a video short from social media…
hv;dw (hate videos; didn’t watch)
As a xennial with ADD, send me the short, I’ll watch it, hunt down the article, read it, then spend 3h down a rabbit hole to understand the validity of the claims and the bias of the news outlet, then I’ll get bored and stop typing in the mid
Well said
I’m a boomer and I approve this.
I do wonder how much of video’s proliferation is because we (in the US at least) fucked up teaching a generation of kids how to read. I’m told one of the dominant strategies for teaching reading was just bad. Well meaning people went all in on it, and then kids just didn’t learn to read well.
You can read about it here, or listen to it as a podcast https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
This is just appaling to read. No wonder the US education is so fucked.
Just to further push the point, it took me 40 minutes to read 3 transcripts. Each transcription is of a roughly hour long podcast episode. So 3 hours down to 40 minutes and English is my second language. It stresses me that people can’t recognize that reading is the closest thing humans have to a superpower.
My favorite trend is where youtubers record a screenshare of a word document and read it for me very slowly.
Sometimes, they will even select the text they’re currently reading, to make sure I don’t get lost. Modern technology really is a marvel.
I’m a Millennial. I’d rather burn a house than pick a video from a choice of (video, article).
That would be great but I think OP’s just gonna get a denial a denial a denial a denial a denial…
Yay, more forced myopic generational divide!
be as cool as gen X and we’ll let you in the club
I’m good.
This you? https://lemmy.ca/post/44345013/16631619
What’s the point you’re trying to get at here?
It’s the 1% vs the working class, not generation vs generation.
