• Kellamity@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Can we please not have YouTube videos be sources

    At best, they’re a tertiary source consistimg of a bunch of condensed summaries of other sources

    More often they’re cherrypicked by content creators to build a narrative for entertainment

    And like, in this context (Lemmy comment debate) you’re asking people to watch a bunch of videos with ads and debunk the points inside. Maybe thats not too much to ask in other contexts, but you must know nobody arguing with you here is going to spend their time doing that

    I could link to a bunch of flat earth videos as sources, and although they would be easily debunked, nobody here is gonna sit through them and follow up the specific claims they make

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      1 year ago

      The Second Thought video is indeed a tertiary source, but the 1Dime videos has all sources in the comments. I understand that people don’t “like” it as a source, but that doesn’t invalidate them either. They are essentially longer form content explaining what I said in greater detail. If someone came in and said inflation was due to the flat earth, then we can dismiss those claims. Any “sources” would not be backed by economic or scientific theory. This doesn’t change based on the format of the source.

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      This is an internet comment section. You need to chill about youtube videos as sources. It almost comes off as snobbish. No one here is under any obligation to do anything for each other. If you wanna ignore a long video someone posted because you don’t want to sit through it, fine. You are allowed to do that.

      The existence of flat earth videos doesn’t invalidate the entire concept of information in videos.

      Get an ad blocker or use piped or something.