[Hitch]

Okay I've had it.

I'm not a big watcher of videos in the first place, to be honest. I learn better from text, but...I will watch them to try to learn. Great, fine.

There seems to be this horrible trend--at first, I thought it was just inexperience, new publishers not realizing, not being good at video editing, but now I'm convinced it's more than that--where every single presenter, speaker, yadda, has to a) type out what he's going to say, b) mutter-speak it while s/he's typing it ["muffy....and....buffy...went...up the hill....and...then..."] and then c) READ IT TO YOU AGAIN!!!!


WHAT THE HOLY FLIPPING HELL?

I mean, what? Is this remedial Kindergarten, or First Grade? Why? Why are presenters doing that?

Who, watching these videos, needs the now-typed-out text read to them--again? Even once, never mind more than once‽ See how annoyed I am? I used an interrobang!

I wondered if it was some sort of click-pay thing. Like, if you spend another 30 seconds on their freaking stupid video, they make another 1/8th of a cent, but I can't seem to sort that out. CLEARLY, none of these people have any experience at all in adult education, because they are going about it the wrong way. I can't speak for anybody else. I know a lot of you guys, my MR buddies, are retired and have some spare/leisure time but dammit, I do not. I really don't have an added 10 minutes, to watch some video that is now 16.25min (!) which should only be 5. It has 10 minutes of content fat and then another six of READING STUFF TO ME THAT I CAN READ MYSELF.

Please, video content providers, please, stop the madness. We can read. At least, if nothing else, for the love of GOD, don't read it TWICE! The added once is bad enough.

Hitch