All of the above is precisely why I write long winded articles chock-a-block full of pictures and I don't produce video essays.

Well, that and having a face made for radio but a voice made for print may also have something to do with it.

You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.

It's that simple.

Add to it, 99% of people completely suck at presenting.

I have siblings who are teachers, and I'm a technical instructor. We work hard to not waste your time.

there's been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I'm just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.

ofc it's not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it's just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes

I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I'm in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don't use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn't get.

It's also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I've already lost track of midway.

Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn't the same.