Any length… As long as its content related…

Why 15/20 rambling minutes of banality to describe something that needs 2 minutes. I don’t care about you, your fucked up goofy smile, a cross fade to your dog doing stupid shit, banal commentwry on the state of the world etc while you are there to show me how to wire an electric plug.

If it’s from a good friend, maybe twenty minutes. If it’s from an acquaintance, maybe five minutes. If it’s from a stranger, I’m not gonna watch it unless I find the subject very interesting.

Honestly, my answer is zero. It’s a rare day when I click on one.

I particularly dislike talking videos. I would always prefer to read instead of hearing someone talk.

For a random moderately interesting subject, I’d rather read a blog post.

After reading the title I was going to say it depends on how interesting it was but after reading the body it depends on a combination of how much time I have and how bored I am.

I really do not like video as a medium for things that could be written. I don’t really care for “wow look at this wacky thing that happened”. I really dislike videos that are just someone talking at the camera. (Standup comedy gets a pass, but that’s also not something I watch much)

So I’m probably not watching most videos.

Random friend, a minute. Random person on the Internet, 10 seconds.

If I didn’t ask to be sent a video, I will almost certainly not watch a video of any length.

Considering its only moderately interesting and is not of any particular intrest to me, the maximum I would spend is like a minute.

Less the length, more the subject, source, and why are they sending it to me.

A video that explains a concept my friend has been trying to tell me about, or it’s about a shared interest, I’ll find the time to go through it.

A video that “seems neat, what a concept” better be shorter than 2 minutes.

A video from a news source “thought you should see this” not watching it and no response from me on that.

5/10 interestingness gets 0 seconds of watch time for me, there’s just too much quality content produced in my topics of interest every day for me to keep up with. I already have to miss some 7/10 projects just because there’s only so much free time in a day.

Regarding the time question, for something that barely crosses the “okay I’ll watch it” threshold, 10-15 minutes is probably what I’ll give it. It can be longer than that, I’ll just skip through parts of the video for the gist to decide if I want to give it more time.

Worth noting though, that for extremely interesting content, a 15 minute duration actually dissuades me from watching it, as I doubt there’s enough time to cover much of anything at a decent level in that little an amount of time. So like, for a neat history vid on a topic I’d like to hear more about, if it’s 30 minutes or less then I’m less likely to give it a chance, unless it’s covering something super narrow where there wouldn’t be as much to talk about. But if you’re going to cover a major historical event, you better be at least a half hour. There are some exceptions to this, Indy Nidell(sp?) is a good example, but it’s my general rule.

I watched Big Joel’s review of every Disney Channel movie last Christmas Day, while my partner was at work and I was defrosting the turkey. So… at least 6 hours.

I also watched this four-hour video on the fall of Doctor Who, and hbomberguy’s nearly-four-hour plagiarism video.

I have ADHD and can’t stand to sit in silence, though, so long videos don’t really phase me. 😄

I don’t open any email attachments of any kind unless they are critically important and the sender has spoken to me about them in advance.

Surfing videos, on YouTube for example, I might casually look at a video up to about 10 minutes long. I only look at longer ones if I sought out the specific video.

How long a stretch I watch depends on my bladder. If the video is interesting, it doesn’t matter how long it is. I do want to know what the subject matter is before hitting play.

There are SO many variables at play here, I have no idea how to answer this. What am I currently doing, where am I, what time is it, did I just wake up, have I had my meds, have I eaten, was the food good, am I bored, am I waiting for an appointment, what is the appointment, is the video mildly interesting because it’s about a thing I like or because I like the other person, are they waiting for my reaction, how urgent is it…