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Hey JT. Not a question per say, but would it be possible to make sources a bit more "front and centre" in the videos? I have a tendency to link your videos to people I try to inform and the general feedback is that they "can't just outright accept it".
Obviously you link sources / further reading in the description, which is decent. But would it be possible to make it a bit more obvious in the video themselves? As for example when statements are made in the video, make them refer to sources in the description or in some other non invasive way? As I think many don't bother to directly further investigate before they dismiss statements made, which where it seems to also end.
Hopefully that made sense. Love your content!
ehhh I understand where they're coming from, but also I have to consider the longevity of my videos. It's like adding a date stamp to pictures, once it's baked in you're stuck with it. If my videos end up getting hosted somewhere there's no description box people will be wondering why there are these mysterious numbers popping up on screen. Also it's just a lot more tedious work and I think it looks ugly. If people genuinely want to learn they can take two seconds to click the description box
If you do ever want to add little citations in videos (like a little [5] in the corner for the fifth one), you could always have them be on your own website that is shown at the start of the video. This gives you complete and long-term control over that content and also means it works on sites lacking video descriptions.
If someone decides to repost your video somewhere, it will also drive traffic to your site and therefore your other videos.
You can also take advantage of directing people to your site by plugging whatever your current thing is. Maybe it's First Thought, maybe it's The Deprogram, maybe it's something else. When it's your own site you have control over what you're currently plugging, whereas things like YouTube videos are kind of stuck plugging whatever you were doing at the time.
Anyways I feel like I'm starting to make a hard sell when I really just wanted to suggest a simple idea. Hope some of it is helpful!
Makes sense.