People should stop making video tutorials for simple problems
Every time I google a solution for a simple problem (like where to find a feature of a software in its menus or how to calculate something) I always have to navigate past the dozen youtube links to find the article or manual that tells me the solution in 10 lines of text.
If your tutorial could be a webpage then you shouldn't do it.
Edit: to all the people that suggest to make a specific query in the search, that's just a partial solution because there are times I don't know the entity of the solution and youtube could be a good place to look for.
When I'm playing a new video game and I google "how to jump" or something simple, I have to sift through entire articles and 10 minutes tutorials, just so I can find a page that will say "press the R3 BUTTON".
it's super frustrating, not everything needs a video tutorial
If you have a simple tutorial to share, step 1 is to buy a domain and hosting. Step 2 is to learn how to create a website and step 3 is learning SEO so your tutorial can be found.
I think a lot of it has to do with monetization - YouTube pays much better than text. (also has less embarrassing ads than all the gut doctor / weight loss / toenail fungus / 15 Celebrity Wardrobe Fails crap that text sites seem to all be using these days)
I think the issue is more that many people make bad tutorials. They spend way too much time giving irrelevant information when we're only interested in the specific steps for the thing we need. Searching for recipes falls under this category, too.
I don't care what your friend's aunt said about the one time you made this recipe. I just want the ingredients, temperature, and cooking time. Your life story surrounding this pancake recipe can fuck right off.
Or it's a kid that made the video. They can actually be better sometimes for brevity because some kids will get right to the point, but some kids have the most annoying voices, especially males right around early puberty. I feel bad because I think it's a good thing that they are trying and I don't want to discourage them, but maybe the minimum age to post videos on the internet should be after the adult voice has developed.
Ah, yes, another unpopular opinion. Look at all the commenters explaining why they'd rather watch 1 hour of fluff than read 5 minutes of instructions and completely disagreeing with OP.
"Unpopular" doesn't only mean that the internet is supposed to split in half and cause a civil war once you say it, it only means "It is not common among most of the people".
Which is true since there's a shitload of people uploading a shitload of shitty tutorials every shitty day.
That doesn't make the opinion unpopular. There are a lot more people who hate this shit than there are people making the videos. The vast majority of people, I'd say, which makes this an extremely popular opinion.
God I have this with so many things. It starts off with some advertised please like and subscribe garbage and you need to fast forward through the video to actually find the relevant 5 seconds answer in a 10 minute video.
Even for fucking video games there's more videos than just a simple screenshot of a map that shows you what hill to run to and where to go from there.
After which their algorithm keeps suggesting more of these idiotic clips because you watched one.
I also find this annoying but that’s because I more easily grasp written instructions than I do a video tutorial. It’s the way my brain is wired. Just give me the bloody instructions. Others need the video. I hate them. But since the internet is like, a resource for everyone, not just me, I try not to take it so personally.
Uhg. My boss wants us to make short videos for everything. About 90% of them could be 2 pictures and 3 sentences. He says no one reads, I say no one watches the videos. We are both right. Everyone wants someone there to hold their hand. It's annoying.
I see you haven’t even noticed yet the small inaccuracies they intentionally introduce so people correct them in the comments, which drives up engagement metrics and boosts the video even higher.
I hate having to scroll through 15-30 minute long videos to find the simple 3 step instructions in text.
The content clutter is fucking insane and I hate it. Too many uninteresting people trying to be relevant as entertainers when the only skill they seem to have is shady marketing.
The problem is now is that there's been a massive uptick in AI generated nonsense on the text side of things. I've seen it predominantly in gaming articles but I'm sure it's getting everywhere.
The real frustrating part is half the time it's just made up, or offering real solutions to game world problems which has just been a bizzare and confusing read
Oh god no, I need those videos. I don't know why, but I need to see and hear the solution to learn, not read it. Most of the time I can't even find a video because my question is so basic I'm the only one asking. I feel stupid even though I have "high IQ."