Video makes you dumb

I'm going to make this brief. When I search for a recipe, I don't want to sit through a 15-second commercial followed by a 2 1/2 minute video to learn the recipe when it would take me 10 seconds to read the recipe in plain text. Am I the only person who feels this way? I've got to think the plethora of videos out there online are catering to a society of human beings that doesn't read anywhere near enough and would rather look at mesmerizing videos.

Maybe I'm wrong, but there are a lot of couch potatoes watching tv in this country when they could be reading.