• @[email protected]
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        4510 days ago

        Listen, we don’t read the article and we don’t watch the video before commenting. Maybe we’re reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.

        • @[email protected]
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          1710 days ago

          To be fair, watching random YouTube videos can be demotivating. A transcript would be much nicer.

          • @[email protected]
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            410 days ago

            Yeah, I definitely prefer to not read some text as compared to not watching a video. If it’s just someone talking, it should’ve been an article.

        • @[email protected]
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          110 days ago

          I agree it is that way currently, unfortunately, but it’s definitely a recent phenomenon (last 10y).

        • @[email protected]
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          510 days ago

          We will read the headline, and possibly every single word in it. Like 75% of the time, at least.

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            10 days ago

            maybe read the headline and the comments, but only like 30% before i react. I guess 75% for the headline maybe.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 days ago

            I like to read until I hit a noun, then look to see what community this it was posted to, then kinda riff it from there.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 days ago

          It’s also always been the way that the people who actually clicked the link get to come into the comments and be frustrated at us for being legitimately wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 days ago

        Why would i feed youtube?
        Let me know when it’s on peertube, another video-centric platform.
        Lemmy’s text-centric.

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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        110 days ago

        No you see, if you can’t do something absolutely perfect then why do it at all?