Amateur Radio

Completely agree. I'm thinking of starting an educational YT channel, and I plan on having an equivalent text article for every video for exactly this reason.

Think there's some browser extension which gives you the subtitles as text. Way faster to skip the BS. But yeah I feel you.

The worst are the autogenerated ones from Stackoverflow or whatver questions. Like it's scraped text put in video automatically. Like really? That's what we've come to? Lmao.

especially when it takes less time to read the information than watch some video

I think the converse is a big part of why you see so many videos. It's a lot easier to ramble in front of a camera than it is to actually write a half-way decent web page for most topics.

I make videos of my SOTA activations, but I still write trip reports for the summits for people who like to read.

i definitely dont appreciate silly faces and clickbait titles, that's for sure, have unsubbed from favourite ham channels as a result of it. that said you can use an addon called DeArrow by same person that does sponsorblock, which does some removal of the clickbait stuff and allows crowd sourced video titles etc. but yeah, i get your point overal re: video instead of text documents