I wonder the same; often I look up programming things and the first links are videos. So I try to watch one and immediately I think; how can anyone anyone do work like this? I needed a flag for ls and was too lazy to read the man page; the result was already put in 1 line on top by Google. Of course I needed only 5 chars only. Then I clicked the video that answered the question for fun; I will try to find it but I think it was 15 minutes of drivel… I just don’t get it. I mean sure I understand why the video makers do it, but who consumes this crap? And why? And it is getting worse; I like watching live streams of programming, but when you actually want to learn something and therefor need to enter code yourself, there is nothing more inefficient medium than video imho.

It could be habit from the wiring of their brain being setup for video from social media.

But following your idea of finding a reason that assumes it's actually more beneficial learning from video than text for people in that class, you need to consider two alternatives.

The first is that they are better at video, but the second is that they are worse as long form text.

Oh yea, I totally assume that they know what they’re doing. It’s just clear that I’m not wired that way. I didn’t grow up with videos accessible to the point of ubiquity like Z has.

I guess my point is that it's possibly/probably an objectively worse way of ingesting information. It's always going to be faster to skim text to find what you need that watching a video on high speed.

But is it? That seems “obvious” to us “old” millennials+. But is an entire generation all independently wrong, and doing the slow thing? If so, why? Is there evidence supporting this that we can look at? All genuine questions, I don’t know the answers. But there’s something interesting happening there, that I do know.