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Good! YouTube and video in general sucks as a format for delivering general information. Finding out how to do things has become far more difficult since the id

Good! YouTube and video in general sucks as a format for delivering general information. Finding out how to do things has become far more difficult since the idea of making money on videos has polluted all the content. It use to be very simple to find detailed tutorials with images and then many posts of relevant discussion on how to fix any part of a vehicle or many other tasks. The people doing them weren't doing it for money. When I could make my own or improve an existing tutorial I did so. Now everything is keyword spammed YouTube videos that are challenging to consume and rarely provided the needed granularity to actually complete a task. Then the most you can hope for in discussion is a bunch of unrelated or unreplied to comments. Please bring on the death of micro-monetization.

shri_krishna 4y ago
> The people doing them weren't doing it for money Not everyone but plenty were doing it for the money. Using ads on their blogs/sites/forums (heck even Stackoverflow ran on ads only for a long time until they brought in more sources of revenue). But with proliferation of ad blockers, they stopped producing textual content and shifted focus to videos. Now ad blockers have gotten smarter and block ads on video too. So it won't be long until even this format disappears as well. We need to find ways to help creators monetize their knowledge rather than stifling their sources of income to such an extent that they have no other means to earn from it. We did it to books too (piracy). Only music seems to not be affected that much due to streaming rights (though music industry went through a similar phase during Napster Era). > Please bring on the death of micro-monetization. What is the alternative?
t-writescode 4y ago
> It use to be very simple to find detailed tutorials with images and then many posts of relevant discussion on how to fix any part of a vehicle ... The people doing them weren't doing it for money Uh, pardon? This was and continues to be a very well-monetized industry for the major players, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company

shri_krishna 4y ago

> The people doing them weren't doing it for money Not everyone but plenty were doing it for the money. Using ads on their blogs/sites/forums (heck even Stackoverflow ran on ads only for a long time until they brought in more sources of revenue). But with proliferation of ad blockers, they stopped producing textual content and shifted focus to videos. Now ad blockers have gotten smarter and block ads on video too. So it won't be long until even this format disappears as well. We need to find ways to help creators monetize their knowledge rather than stifling their sources of income to such an extent that they have no other means to earn from it. We did it to books too (piracy). Only music seems to not be affected that much due to streaming rights (though music industry went through a similar phase during Napster Era). > Please bring on the death of micro-monetization. What is the alternative?

t-writescode 4y ago

> It use to be very simple to find detailed tutorials with images and then many posts of relevant discussion on how to fix any part of a vehicle ... The people doing them weren't doing it for money Uh, pardon? This was and continues to be a very well-monetized industry for the major players, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company