>Perhaps it just means that some (many?) are watching too many videos and/or videos of a particular kind. It's a non problem to me.
A lot of videos have good visual content (how-to, etc) but the pacing and speech is too slow.
Also because of COVID, a lot of students were forced to watch video lectures and it increased awareness of using 2x as a legitimate tool to quickly process slow professors or selectively slow down to 1x only the sections that were difficult to understand.
There's modern technology now for listeners to bend the media to suit their brain rather than being forced to suffer the slow pacing of the content creator. This is why many people embrace 2x as a tool to enhance learning.
In my last couple years in college they started doing more recorded lectures. Most felt pretty good at 1.5x speed. But there was one professor that I was so glad that 3x was an option.
A lot of videos have good visual content (how-to, etc) but the pacing and speech is too slow.
Also because of COVID, a lot of students were forced to watch video lectures and it increased awareness of using 2x as a legitimate tool to quickly process slow professors or selectively slow down to 1x only the sections that were difficult to understand.
There's modern technology now for listeners to bend the media to suit their brain rather than being forced to suffer the slow pacing of the content creator. This is why many people embrace 2x as a tool to enhance learning.