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Short video is a different medium. Like it or not, TikTok is encouraging creation of new culture via its particular creation tools.

While damaging peoples ability to have an attention station.

I never had one in the first place so none of it makes a difference to me.

And the reality is that different people learn best through different means. I can't stand video as a learning medium for software-related topics, but to each their own.

Depends.

If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.

I will have to completely disagree on this one. The amount of excel I've learnt from my TikTok fyp is genuinely unprecedented in my life. It feels like passive learning because they appear between my other interests like history or comedy. Specially stuff like archeology is specially condusive to this format.