I'm just saying --- videos

Here are some pro tips for doing videos to post on the web, say on Youtube.

NO TTS. If you are too fing lazy to do the voiceover yourself, after learning how to say foreign names or phrases right, we don't owe you our time.

NO urban legends. If you are too fing lazy to do the homework and avoid the lies, we don't owe you our time.

Repetition is not detail. If you don't have enough facts to fill out two hours, tell them only once unless you need them to bolster other facts, or only do a one hour video. We don't owe it to you to sit through a repetition of the same info or phrases every ten minutes.

GRAPHICS. If you can't find enough relevant graphics to match your text, draw them yourself. Also, I don't want to see somebody wearing a Jacobean collar when you're talking about some period before the death of Elizabeth I. That means you think we're too stupid to tell the difference. We don't owe it to you to let you insult our intelligence.

The same thing goes for repeatedly showing the same graphics as for repeating the same phrase in your text.

AI. Read the terms and conditions of your AI app carefully. I've heard announcements that when you take advantage of the AI in your app, the company that made the app claims copyrights. 

Besides, AI is an idiot child. It doesn't know a valid source from something that has been debunked. It lies sometimes. It contradicts itself. AI does not make you smarter. 

And finally, pick your subject properly. The only people watching your Kennedy videos are stans or people who literally never heard the name before. But the videos on the Bantu expansion are few, and have the faults I list above, and yet this was one of the major population movements in the world, which played out for thousands of years of world history.

I am no hypocrite. Every post on my blog, I wrote myself, after years of research. One string of 50 posts was 40 years in the making, because I wanted a solid string of facts, not just he said/he said, and some of the best facts I used only showed up on Internet Archive in 2014. If you're not even going to try to do some percentage of the work I did, * shrug * you're wasting my time.

I'm just saying...