Just got a comment under my latest video that said something like this in a sarcastic tone :
oh how difficult it is to make chapters for a 3 minute video… why don’t you let ai lace your shoes as well?
It’s my first mean-ish comment in a while. I had forgotten such people even existed. But well, let’s use it as an opportunity for a clarification.
Yes, it’s difficult for me to go back to rewatch something I have written and recorded to add chapters to it. Why? Because by the time I publish something, I’ve heard all the bad parts dozens of times and I have doubted the utility of my work at least twice (if not my own utility in the process). Yes, even for a 3-minute video (although my videos seldom are 3 minutes long but let’s not be picky).
So doing it again, watching it one more time, just to add chapters is not just “watching 3 minute of video”. It’s giving myself another opportunity to delete it all.
But that’s not even the point.
The point is : if you can even take one little task you don’t like doing off your plate, why wouldn’t you do it ?
Puritans we are not. Pain is NOT the point.
ESPECIALLY when the task in itself is not the core of the stuff you’re publishing. This particular video about how adding chapters to your YouTube videos. Why on earth would people CARE if I do it myself or get help to do it ? Viewers don’t care if I do my taxes myself or get an accountant, do they ?
Arg. It makes me angry. Not this particular meaner, I don’t care what he thinks. It makes me angry because it’s the sort of little comment that stops people from putting stuff out there.
It’s the sort of comment that leads to stupid perfectionism over format and aesthetics and postural-content. When what the web needs is more…. scrappy, fun, direct, real stuff.
EDIT 2026-05-22 - I expanded this into a Papier (in french) : Comment en faire moins et publier plus