What always irritated me was bloggers that would post a stock photo before any post.  I don't mind if it's a photo taken by the author that relates to the post, but something obviously stock is just daft.  But for a couple of years it seemed like that is what bloggers did.  Seems to have died out or I'm hanging with a different crowd.


(Remind me to tell you what I think about ads in the middle of an article sometime.)

QuoteI believe videos have a slightly negative valuation by many/most? visitors.

I think it depends on why people visit a site. What task are they trying to complete?

Video & music dominate entertainment. But in terms of just getting specific goals accomplished they can certainly get in the way. That said, many product sales pages have review videos & even things like buying a boat or such could be seen as lower risk if a person can get a video of watching the thing run, a walkthrough tour of the boat to see its condition, etc.

I hate videos. I've lately figured out I need to dial it back as I'm spending 15 minutes looking for a text answer instead of watching youtube for 2 mins.

>slap a cat on it

Forward-deployed Ukrainian Battle Cat
https://old.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/xsuu4b/forwarddeployed_ukrainian_battle_cat/

Video tutorials are great for car and appliance repairs. Very useful in certain contexts.

Wait until they are showing in your AR goggles with the size of the wrench needed and an arrow pointing to the nut.

As I understand it, Google Glass never went away, but moved into more niche industry applications. It could be big in 10 years, but not as a techno-utopian tool for annoying people at restaurants, but for genuine tasks that people need help with.

https://www.google.com/glass/start/
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/google-translate-ar-smartglasses-at-google-io-2022/
https://www.laptopmag.com/news/google-glass-is-making-a-comeback-with-some-strict-limitations

>Video tutorials

Every time I need to get something fixed on a car or around the house I watch a couple videos to see if I could easily do it myself or if it is worth paying someone else to handle it. There are videos for pretty much any problem you would have with any sort of mainstream vehicle out there. The home repair videos can be a bit more hit and miss in terms of quality though.

I still much prefer a slideshow with captions but I'll take a video if that's all I can get  ...and it usually is. 

>home repair

I just used videos from the manufacturers to install a sorta complicated control valve in the new shower.  Then I watched a plumber's vid for some different views.

>car

I recently found 2 guys running a 'studio' right from the junkyard.  Production quality is rough, but they were excellent about replacing a rear side window in a van.  BTW, ebay is selling windows & body parts now. Pro prices were $400-500 and ebay was $85 and I didn't have to drive an hour to a good junk yard.   

>thousand words
>video tutorials

For something like appliance repair videos work so much better for me than written instructions.

Agreed. I generally hate video as it is hard to skim. Who would have guessed millions would watch unboxing videos.

But for car or appliance repair, a good video just puts it all together.

For someone like me who is not particularly handy, I've been able to tackle projects I would not have touched without YOuTube. Has saved me so much time and money.