Many creators, especially video content creators are having a rant that text based content is dead. is it true? I thought about it in deep, done some research, and added my personal experiences to give this verdict. Text based content can never become dead!
The Growth of A.I accelerated the text based content usage
the artificial intelligence chat bot platforms like Google Gemini, Claude sonnet, Open AI’s ChatGPT, and other such similar platforms are rapidly generating text based content and are the highly consumed content as of 2025 for those who use them on a daily basis.
To solve a problem in coding, marketing, analysis, execution, these chat bot-based AI platforms are helping the corporates, coders, and marketing executives a roadmap for which they to go through a lot of data and read a lot of text given by these models.
The browser based native article suggestions
The browsers like Bing, which is the default browser in Microsoft edge, displays the articles from the related geography and derives traffic to the related website.
Google’s own Google App, also popularly known as Google discover also helps publishers and user fill their gap by showing each other the useful and helpful content which doesn’t depend upon any search parameters and ranking factors.
A next moment the content published, that piece of content can be available on the Google discover to get tons of traffic to the website.
Excessive consumption of video-based content and its impact on the human brains
People nowadays not only the young generation, but the elders as well consume a lot of video content especially the shorts and reels-based content on YouTube shorts, Instagram, Facebook and Tik Tok, which in long term makes them feel depressed, emotional imbalance, helplessness, loneliness, addicted to their phone screen etc.
For this reason, many of the millennials and gen Zs are going for the dumb phones and choosing a sustainable lifestyle and the roots. While this is not a permanent solution, the below ones could be helpful, if..
- They are avoiding the short form video based content as much as possible.
- They are getting busier in their lives.
- They are more keen towards developing their own skills, and getting better at their careers rather than wasting their productive time on the short form based videos.
- They are choosing a optimum sustainable lifestyle which will help them control their physical, mental health and well being in the longterm.
Because, the video addiction is making people lose their lives!
Many people are so addicted to the short form-based videos and their mobiles that they pretend to be scrolling their screen while they are sleeping or resting in general.
We’ve seen many kids behaving this way, even many kids are not eating properly and creating disturbance if the phone they’re using is taken away.
This is a big concern. Even in some extreme cases, people are either killing their relatives, because they hidden their phone, or didn’t buy one, or else they are killing them getting motivated from the content they’re consuming online through such short form-based videos.
Government of India needs to take steps now
The gen Z protests from Nepal is an evident fact we saw that youngsters can’t tolerate the ban on social media and can agitate and go to any extent to fulfill their demand.
But if government gives orders to such extreme content showing platforms to remove such features where short form videos are shown, or ban them, rather banning all social media platforms could show a clear direction.
Short form video-based content is the slow poison in the human brains
They shorten the attention span of human brains. The discipline level, consistency, focus, attention everything gets reduced. Because they are unable to tolerate anything beyond 20 to 30 seconds.
Even in some worst cases they are even not looking at them, just swiping up every 2 seconds to meet their dopamine demand, which is a very serious mental disease!
In the short form videos, the videos are extremely happy, blessed, travel based, fake emotions based, perfect lives, shocking moments, extreme happy, extreme sad, and the extreme background music create the instant dopamine satisfaction among a common user.
And this makes them feel smaller and gets them addicted to their phone screens like a drug or alcohol addiction.
So, what’s the solution?
We can’t depend upon the government or authorities to take the step, because by then it’ll be too late.
We should start caring about our lives. We should be able to live in the moment. Our present decides our future so if everyone will be busy in crafting a good present for a better future, ultimately everything will be good.
Along with the government actions and restrictions, we as humans should strive towards the reality of life. Should look our life as it is.
We all have our own sorrows, happiness, high moments and low moments, but they are not instant 30 second based, they happen with everyone, many of the short form video creators are even mentally depressed or just creating videos for the sake of it.
Books guide us towards a better personality, thought leadership, and overall well being.
Taking a walk, talking to friends, peers and our family members can ease things a lot.
Even video is not a bad medium at all. YouTube long form videos teach us a lot! We can get inspired from other’s failures, successes, learn skills, and can get guided and mentored.
But what are we doing? Ultimately, it’s our decision to shape our life. Nobody will and nobody can.
Reading articles, blogs, text based content, books shape our thinking capacity, strengthen our nervous system and increases our ability to decide what is better for us, ultimately, our present and future as well.
So, after all this I came to this verdict that if people are ready to take the next step that if humans are ready to make better progress, which the billionaires are already doing in India & abroad, and if they are ready to take control, to learn, to rectify, to earn, have a better sustainable life, then there’re nothing better than to consume text based content.
And there’s no way possible that video content can replace text-based content.
