Text vs Video Preference

I don't get the point of videos here, it doesn't seem to bring much benefit and text would be much faster to read..

I cant stand videos for most information. By the time the video loads and the probably slow speaking individual goes over just the introduction of the information, I could have already read a more informative article/post.

Am I the only one who is utterly incapable to learn anything from a video? I read many hours per day, and look at figures, and try to understand them. But I cannot stand to wait for a three-minute video to finish. Why do people prefer linear videos to text that you can read at a whole?

video is a really bad format for this kind of content, imho. I can read faster than the video can explain. Even at 2x or 3x speed, it's still faster to read, especially if I'm only skim-reading to find interesting bits.

My issue is that I don’t find it convenient to watch a video at all. For answering simple questions, there are many drawbacks to the format compared to text. I can usually extract necessary information from text in seconds. I might have to turn on a video and wait several minutes to hear the relevant information or spend minutes searching through it. Info in videos is not searchable by keywords or easily copy/pastable, and I may be in an environment where I don’t want to turn the sound up.

Reading. It's faster for me, and too many videos don't have closed captioning so I miss too much of the information in them.

Going on a bit of a tangent here, but I would really prefer if less people chose video as the medium to explain things. For me at least it's markedly easier, quicker, and convenient to read things.

Video as a format seems drastically overused to me. When I go to the internet to find some information, I either get ai generated essays of great length and no substance, or a link to YouTube. I'm not wasting my time watching a video even if it is sped up, just to learn something that could have been cleanly represented as a short document. If more people start using documents instead of videos where they stare at you and speak, I am in favor of this series of events.

So I'll take it that's a "no", then?Text is a much better way for me to look at a topic deeply. I can reread a sentence, copy and paste things into Google, and generally take it at my pace rather than theirs. Text can contain links to further informationThings that exist only in video make me suspicious that they're persuading me rather than informing me.

I can't find a gap in my life that fits video.Audio maybe as I can listen while walking/driving.But video stops me multitasking, I can't skim at my own pace, the speed of information delivery is order of magnitude slower than reading and skipping back and forth is much harder than with text+images.I just honestly can't find a role for video where it's not significantly worse than reading+images (+ allowing for small, embedded video snippets for things that need