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I feel like Youtube vidoes are a massively annoying format for digesting information. It's so slow compared to text and it's full of fillers and introductions and flowery language. I'm surprised this is so upvoted on HN, especially because in my brief scanning the video format doesn't add anything

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I typically watch at 1.75x speed, sometimes 2x. Same (sometimes faster) for podcasts.

Of course there’s a one sentence bottom line to a majority of YouTube content, but I appreciate the artform, adjacent color commentary, and evidence-based rigor from these higher quality creators. Albeit at a ridiculous speed lol.

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