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Yeah, there's an annoying genre of videos that's just a dude in his basement talking to his webcam for an hour. Not only is the format low information density,
by knzhou 7y ago
Yeah, there's an annoying genre of videos that's just a dude in his basement talking to his webcam for an hour. Not only is the format low information density, but you can't even extract the key bits by skimming through it.
- catalogia 7y ago> but you can't even extract the key bits by skimming through it. I generally avoid that format of video entirely, but using the subtitles as a searchable index helps a lot.
- jacobolus 7y agoThis is also 99% of “podcasts”. Except instead of 1 dude in a basement, it’s usually a few people on a conference call.
- 6nf 7y agoThis is all Youtube's doing. Youtube rewards channels that upload a full video every day, and for individual creators the only way to do that is to talk into a camera for 30 minutes and just upload it.