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It sucks for people aren’t videogenic though.

There are tons of DIY video that didn't really feature the person's face, or isn't really necessary.

Binging with Babish didn't even show his face until he was popular: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

He basically popularized a whole genre of "here are my rolled-up sleeved forearms doing things" video framing.

He has some really nice looking forearms though.

Right. For example, the lockpicking lawyer has millions of views. I have not seen every video, but the ones I've seen do not feature any faces, just lockpicking.

Voice quality, speaking mannerisms, etc. are extremely critical. Probably more so that visual. It's a major boon having a charismatic personality whether you look good or not.

A video with just poor sound quality (bad mics, noise) but otherwise excellent is nearly unwatchable. Same with a nasally, monotone, dry and boring speaker.

I think voice is more problematic. There are a bunch of channel that I would love content wise, but that I find straining to watch for more than a few minutes because of the audio/acoustic quality or their voices and dialects/accents. The latter, not to be mean and it is not the peoples fault, but not everyone has a voice that is pleasant to everyone else to listen to for extended periods of time.

or for people not wanting to watch videos. if a video is a supplemental part of a well written blog, then so be it. however, the video tends to be replacing the well written blog while leaving out the finer details the blog once provided.

I think it's a combination of a lot of people are more biased towards watching a video than reading compared to some of us AND the fact the a lot of people find it a lot easier to narrate a video than it is to write a decent blog post especially if they also have to add photos etc.

I have a theory that half the population struggles with reading. They can read to get by but they find reading an article or blog post to be a struggle and certainly not entertaining.

Even if that's an exaggeration, I think there are lots of people who would much rather watch a video than read more than a paragraph or so.

Have you SEEN ElectroBoom and his monobrow?

I'm looking forward to the day when I can walk, unplucked, down the US streets and not get funny looks due to remnants of my middle-eastern heritage!

LONG LIVE THE BROW!

As a huge ElectroBoom fan I’ve got to say the monobrow is actually part of the charm.

CGP Grey.

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