I hadn’t thought about this, but you may be on to something. I had a car issue, googled it, found nothing but crap and generic articles. I searched the same on YouTube and found a couple videos about fixing the exact issue on my type of car.
The trouble with that is that videos are much harder to reference than text. If someone slaps a [citation needed] on a claim I’m making, I may have to track down the video, find the right time stamp, and link that. And then they will probably say that YouTube isn’t a valid source, even if it comes from a relatively reputable creator (I’ve had people say this for a Tom Scott video where he was interviewing a subject matter expert in the topic).
This is all so much easier with blogs. Even if people should be a little more skeptical of blogs, at least a blog can link its own sources more easily than YouTube to get to something more reputable.
I hadn’t thought about this, but you may be on to something. I had a car issue, googled it, found nothing but crap and generic articles. I searched the same on YouTube and found a couple videos about fixing the exact issue on my type of car.
Really interesting observation.
The trouble with that is that videos are much harder to reference than text. If someone slaps a [citation needed] on a claim I’m making, I may have to track down the video, find the right time stamp, and link that. And then they will probably say that YouTube isn’t a valid source, even if it comes from a relatively reputable creator (I’ve had people say this for a Tom Scott video where he was interviewing a subject matter expert in the topic).
This is all so much easier with blogs. Even if people should be a little more skeptical of blogs, at least a blog can link its own sources more easily than YouTube to get to something more reputable.