I always find video really slow and not very information dense, I don't have the patience for it. I get frustrated with the slow delivery whereas I can consume written text at my own speed. Skipping video works of course but I constantly have to "resync" my mind after a skip which happens automatically with written content. Written text can also be overly verbose and woolly but somehow I can scan through it even faster and summarise it without even thinking. It's really weird.
But it's great video exists for those who love it of course. And I think most people find video more easily accessible. I'm more of an outlier.
Fwiw I already stopped watching live TV many years ago :) All the ads, the endless game shows and talkshows with the celebs loving the sound of their own voices, no thanks.
That always depends on the actual "information". Some stuff is "better" in written form, other things need audio and for other video is neccesary. Trivial thing is needing audio to e.g. hear music (yes, even if I can read musical notation) or pronunciation, intonation and accentuation of words or videos of physical "movement" in sports, crafts and art (dancing, theater,...).
But no, I wouldn't watch somebody programming for hours instead of reading about that either.
Unlike some, I do appreciate programming videos. It's often helpful to understand concepts with the examples even if you don't recall the precise code or libraries. I'm those cases, it would be nice if more videos had accompanying articles.
I've thought about making some beginner to expert JS/TS content a few times. But no idea if the effort would really be worth it in terms of reach/audience. I've been working on Web based apps since the mid-late 90s. Which is also IMO a hindrance as it's often harder to think in terms of how best to learn things vs the changes over time in practice.
Ironically I also spent about a decade writing in eLearning systems and content. Which taught me it's simply amazing how much you can learn and forget. A couple years ago, realized mid conversation that I couldn't completely explain jet engines anymore. I've learned and forgotten so much domain knowledge that it's hard to express.
There's plenty of more recent stuff floating around.
On TFA subject, I've always enjoyed learning about history/warfare and related tech as well as food and nutrition. Most of my television time is in YouTube. I've recently dropped all other streaming services to cut back on the expense... I use YouTube(+music) way too much to deal with the annoying ads.
It is truly invaluable to _humanity_
Eventually I find it and I shake my head wondering how YouTube/Google could get this bad.
It’s not like Google search, where being the best at search is a meaningful competitive advantage and necessary for survival. If YouTube found a credible competitor, I strongly suspect they’d improve their search (from the users’ perspective).
Sometimes it feels like you're gaslighting yourself down a memory hole.
But what bothers me the most is that YouTube's data can't be fully indexed by search engines. Recently, I was trying to find the video of a comment I had a picture of, but it was impossible to find because comments aren't indexed at all. While Reddit's search also sucks for example, at least search engines can index Reddit's data and make it possible to search it.
The last things I can think of they did to ruin it is surfacing Shorts and "you may also like" results, but the results themselves were completely broken for many years now (my favourite is when doing a search within a channel, looking for e.g. "Let's play Factorio Episode 98" which will return episodes 97,98 and 101, but not 98 no matter how far you scroll down in the results. If you want to find episode 98, naturally you should search for episode 99 and then it will appear).
Now if you search for something will give you 5 relevant videos, 10 "for you videos" and then an endless list of something it hopes you will engage with, whether relevant or not
tl;dw:
First, he searches the exact name of the video on YouTube: it shows a fan-made animated skit of it, the wrong videos but from the right channel, and several re-uploads with only a few hundred views.
Second, he adds the channel name before the name of the video in the search bar. Same results.
Third, he tries searching for a famous line from the video: still no luck.
Finally, he sorts by view count and it shows up, but still not as the first result.
Is this some obscure video from some obscure channel? Nope, the video has 15 million views from a channel with 3.91 million subscribers that uploads videos regularly. He has a verified account which was created in 2006.
I just tried doing the same search as he did in an incognito window, and it also didn't show up for me until I sorted by view count.
I ran it on archive.today, and while it has slightly different results than what I got, nowhere in the search results does it ever show the original video with 15 million views. https://archive.ph/ksZhq
If you down the rabbit hole you start losing your mind.