@bstix@Provider@gvwilson It’s even still out there if you can make it past the first page of results, usually. And it’s not all hobby labors of love. Polygon still published text guides for everything, for example.
@bstix@Provider@gvwilson writing is as hard as it ever was, but monetization of ad-hoc tutorial content is far easier and more lucrative on youtube. People are literally being paid to pollute your search results with video.
I’m actually optimistic; I think eventually youtube will face too much flak for this kind of garbage, it’ll start affecting viewership, they’ll tweak the algorithm or the partner program to punish bad tutorials and there’ll be a renaissance of the written stuff.