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.
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.
Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube 🫠
Wait till you find out you can use your brain
I see you didn’t make it 40s into the video.
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.
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.
We will read the headline, and possibly every single word in it. Like 75% of the time, at least.
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.
To be fair, watching random YouTube videos can be demotivating. A transcript would be much nicer.
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.
Exactly!
So has anyone tried this pewpowpie recipe and does it taste any good?
Yo, I love pudding pie. Is it chocolate?
Why would i feed youtube?
Let me know when it’s on peertube, another video-centric platform.
Lemmy’s text-centric.
Why would anyone watch a pewdiepie video?
The thumbnail has a big ole X over the word youtube. I think he knows