There used to be readable how-tos and tutorials for things, and now all that’s left is 45 minute YT videos littered with influencer garbage.

This is so much of what I hate about the internet today. Many, many things which should be a single page wall of text is now some 20 minute video which just shows the person doing something, with terrible music in the background and fuck-all for deep explanations. I do understand how hard it is to write those deep explanations, my own blog has gone over a year without an update. But fuck, if you're the type of person who can be constantly working and posting, this seems like something that should be reasonable to do. Of course, monetizing the written word is harder. I know some writers are getting there on substack,. but that seems like a platform where you need to have an audience first and then you can monetize it. There isn't really any discoverability in substack. If people don't know you're there, they won't find you.