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feiticeir0

Hi all.

I have this question, despite being in the rules that must be created a video unboxing.

I'm finishing my second review, and having already done one without a video, is it really necessary to record one?

I'm not discussing my ability to create one, but I really don't like to hear my voice (I'm sure many people has the same opinion) on it. And since my native language is not English, it could sound funny. RoflRoflRofl

I have the video ready, just need to finish the editing. 

I'm more comfortable writing and posting photos than recording a video.

I have several exercises in video that I will post , but my question remains: is it really necessary a video review?

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  • Believe it or not, and it's not something I say lightly, or say often, but this is particularly a generational age thing in regards to videos.

    There is an increasingly huge amount of people now that, because they have grown up with YouTube, simply go there first for a demonstration video. They don't want to read a blog post, or a document, or a user manual (we already knew that historically "no-one read the user manual").

    They go to youtube first.

    There're still a large number of us who want to read a blog post though, but search engines do 'scrape' videos, especially if they have appropriate markup like subtitles/closed captions and chapters marked out, and make them visible in search.

    I have a couple of nephews, they're under 16 years of age, whenever they look up something, be it a product or a problem, they go for videos first, load it up on their phone and sit by it or skip through it to what they want to see, and then move on.

    It's the new television, literally.

    So while a lot of us aren't comfortable with videos necessarily, or brilliant at editing, the newer generations are totally all over it. Youtube shorts, instagram reels, tiktok have all made people more comfortable and familiar with video creation, and have video edit and creation tools inside the software and it's all accessible from their smart phone.

    There are some people that create youtube videos that now also have a 'blog backup' for the content, when it's technical that needs reinforcement, especially with code or scripts, alongside their youtube videos, and maybe they have that behind a patreon paywall - but their primary content type?

    Video.

    But as baldengineer also says, video is optional.

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  • Believe it or not, and it's not something I say lightly, or say often, but this is particularly a generational age thing in regards to videos.

    There is an increasingly huge amount of people now that, because they have grown up with YouTube, simply go there first for a demonstration video. They don't want to read a blog post, or a document, or a user manual (we already knew that historically "no-one read the user manual").

    They go to youtube first.

    There're still a large number of us who want to read a blog post though, but search engines do 'scrape' videos, especially if they have appropriate markup like subtitles/closed captions and chapters marked out, and make them visible in search.

    I have a couple of nephews, they're under 16 years of age, whenever they look up something, be it a product or a problem, they go for videos first, load it up on their phone and sit by it or skip through it to what they want to see, and then move on.

    It's the new television, literally.

    So while a lot of us aren't comfortable with videos necessarily, or brilliant at editing, the newer generations are totally all over it. Youtube shorts, instagram reels, tiktok have all made people more comfortable and familiar with video creation, and have video edit and creation tools inside the software and it's all accessible from their smart phone.

    There are some people that create youtube videos that now also have a 'blog backup' for the content, when it's technical that needs reinforcement, especially with code or scripts, alongside their youtube videos, and maybe they have that behind a patreon paywall - but their primary content type?

    Video.

    But as baldengineer also says, video is optional.

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