How to Get to Good Shit in the Longest YouTube Guide
Hi I’m Nick, welcome to my YouTube tutorial. Here’s thirty seconds of a harrowing introduction, two minutes showing you how to open an app, five minutes explaining an irrelevant task, and then five seconds, the actual advice you Google searched. In fact, we have three tips: three ways to find the “real” part of the instructional video.
Check comments
This is obvious, but it also contradicts the first rule of the Internet: never read comments. However, the comments on the tutorial videos are extremely helpful; you will find someone who was just as disappointed with this video and summed it up heroically in one line.
If such a comment is not among the top 3 most popular comments, stop reading and try the next step:
Review the transcript
Below the video, click the three dots to the right of the thumbs up or thumbs down buttons. Select “Open Transcript” from the drop-down menu. Browse it or press Ctrl-F for keywords. Most of these transcripts are computer generated, so they may not be accurate. But you can still find the section you want, click a line in the transcript , and you’ll go straight to that spot in the video.
Thanks to the editor of FlyingKanga for this.
Watch at double speed
If you get stuck watching the entire video, at least increase the speed of the narrator. It may not actually shorten your search time, but it will feel less like talking to the President of Slow America.
Hover over the video. Just below the progress bar, click the gear icon. Select “Speed” from the drop-down menu. Select “2”. You are now the master of time.