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Maybe if your business model includes putting things in an inconvenient format that could best be replaced by a bulleted list, you should rethink your business

• sakjur 3y ago
  If that's truly what you're doing, sure. If you can reduce a movie to its screenplay without losing value, that's probably what you should be doing. A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified. I wish we'd go the other way, where free text content is complemented by paid-for audio or video commentary. But it has to be a very dull video for a bullet list to be a good replacement (and a bad bullet list to be able to capture what a good video production can convey).
  • xg15 3y ago
    Yeah no. There are probably amazing and insightful cooking videos out there, but the moment you intentionally withold the recipe unless people pay, you're using a disadvantage of the medium for rent-seeking.
  • TeMPOraL 3y ago
    > A recipe is a great complement to a cooking video, but reducing the value of a cooking video's value to the recipe is oversimplified. There is a simple test to make here: is the complimentary recipe released to the viewer, so that they can read it conveniently and at their own pace? If the recipe is truly a complement to otherwise great cooking video, then releasing it is a no-brainer. If it's withheld, then one has to wonder why, and what the video publisher is afraid of.
  • pixl97 3y ago
    A lot of this is actually caused by Google in benefiting observability of videos that are longer so they (google) can show more ads. You either get a 60 second short, or 10ish minutes. This leads content creators to stretch out their videos longer than they really should be.