Asklemmy

And that’s the problem: I didn’t want to watch it. And I agree with it.

I do get what you mean, so point taken there, even though I still believe in consuming a piece of media in its entirety before coming to a conclusion.

A huge part of this problem I think is also the culture surrounding informative pieces in general. I highly doubt "a review and defense of X paper on the economic effectiveness of socialism" will get even a fraction of the views. It's so bad that even actual academic papers are making things like "visual abstracts" (infographics) and stuff because otherwise people, including other researchers don't get interested in reading it. Apparently reading a one-paragraph text-only abstract is too much to ask now.

The image you posted in https://lemmy.ml/post/218208/comment/150132 gives an excellent counter-argument to this claim.

That post was also downvoted to hell, even more than the "link dump". I suspect because people just assumed that it's all BS even though sources are found at the bottom. I mention this because I see this happen every time, particularly on places like Reddit. Something like this:

[Thesis of claim that goes against the grain] [excellent expansion of the comment with reputable citations]

-100 points

Okay paid shill.

10000000 points

This is why I'm hesitant to use this format.