I have no problems with videos but ya'll better have a better fucking source.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Yay, more forced myopic generational divide!
be as cool as gen X and we'll let you in the club
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When I'm looking at my phone, I want the original text so I can ~~read~~ skim it myself.
When I'm not looking at my phone, I want the video so I can continue not looking at my phone.
You're supposed to watch tiktoks at 2x.
I don’t know a single millennial that uses TikTok. This is such a weird generalization.
Ehh some articles are full of useless fluff with like a single paragraph worth of info that I actually need, but I have to read from the start to figure it out, at least on the video I can jump at different points to quickly find where the useful info is
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Nobody is saying or implying videos are a more efficient way to consume information than reading... it's not this or that it's two different forms of media. Absolutely dumb tweet.
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