I am a writer, and I write words. I do this by reading lots and lots of words. Some of my articles have required me to read 20,000 to 30,000 words or more in a few hours to gather the info in order to tell people what happened or what it meant.

I can read at a few thousand words a minute if I must. It is apparently, I learned in recent years, on the order of 10x as fast as the average reading speed.

(As an aside, a blind friend of mine has his computer set to talk at 600wpm but he could handle faster before his hearing started to fail. This is not some superpower; this speed of comprehension is just a learned skill.)

I can't waste two or three hours watching videos from someone who is, to me, some internet rando just to find out if there is a story here. I'd lose my job.

I need text, plain text that I can zoom and search and stick through Readability or something. Some gen-alpha types litter their text posts with little furry characters who -- I don't know, relay some of the author's inner monologue or something? I don't really understand. It destroys my ability to read it, and I've reached a point of intolerance. There are a million blog posts and comments a day, and if someone deliberately fscks up theirs because of mental health problems, fine, their problem, I'm not wasting my time fighting through it.

If it's worth saying, if it's worth sharing, it's worth writing down.

If it's not worth writing down, it's not worth my time.

To quote Bill Hicks, “I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”