Hey.  Y'know what really grinds my gears?  Clickbaity youtube videos that always say, "How to do this really hard thing in X minutes!"  You know what I'm talking about--it'll be like, "How to build your own gaming PC in 30 mintues!"  "How to configure your own open-source wi-fi router in 15 minutes!"  "How to make this ultra-realistic 3D model in Blender in 25 minutes!"  Yeah, most of these sorts of videos that I see are tech related cuz that's what I do.  But it could also be, like, um... "How to rebuild your carburetor in 20 minutes!", or "How to build this tool shed in 45 minutes!", or "How to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope in 10 minutes!"

The thumbnail is always some grinning, charismatic joker pointing to their totally awesome thing that they built, and the video is always framed as "I built this in X minutes, so you can, too!"  But the part they leave out is "How to do this really difficult thing in 5 minutes... plus the requisite hundreds or thousands of hours of learning and practice that it takes to get good enough and knowledgeable enough to do it that quickly!!"  ... RIGHT?!

I mean, they always make it look like someone starting at absolute ground zero can do it that quickly, but that's a joke.  Sure, that totally realistic Blender model absolutely can be made in 30 minutes... once you've spent hundreds or thousands of hours mastering Blender, that is.  But I guess that doesn't get the clicks.  Sometimes I actually need a manageable, approachable entry point, and a realistic picture of how long and difficult the road ahead will be.  The real video title should be, "I made this thing in Blender in 10 MINUTES, and you can, too, after years of practice, learning, failure, failing down and getting back up, trying and trying again, and tearing your hair out!"

Like, just... y'know, be honest and say that a lot of skill and practice is needed before you can do this thing in 5 minutes.  Don't make it sound like just anybody can do it right now.  Y'know?