Comment on Is video media easier to understand than books?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
No.
Most people have no idea how to present information, this on top of the average person being able to read about 4x faster than someone can speak. I regularly play podcasts at 1.5x-2x. There are perhaps 3 people who I’ll watch on YouTube for information, only because they show how something works and the video format is useful for the subject, and I still often play it at 2x, or just skip through all the nonsense.
99% of video presentations are garbage to me.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Oh yea. This reminds me. I see this in a recent thing I watched, 3 Body Problem.
There is 2 versions of it, there is a Netflix adaptation made in the west, there’s a Tencent version made in China.
In the book, there was a scene depicting the Cultural Revolution of PRC, but the Tencent version cut it out, while the Netflix version did not hold back.
So I get it, it can suck when things get cut out.
But when sometimes its great to be able to see the story, instead of just imagining it. I guess you really have to do both to experience the full story, well… different interpretations of a story.