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    "text": "Yesterday,\nI stumbled across a quite interesting"
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    "text": "video on YouTube, and since I\nwas mentioned in that video"
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    "text": "and was called out, I thought, well,\nI'll just react"
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    "text": "to it.\nThe video is called No one watches YouTube"
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    "start": 16.0,
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    "text": "course,\nI'll put a link below this episode."
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    "start": 18.78,
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    "text": "It's by Melki, Melki, uh, I don't know."
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    "text": "But I don't have to pronounce him\ncorrectly because he did not pronounce,"
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    "text": "correctly either. And in this video,\nhe argues that there"
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    "text": "are no coding tutorials out there anymore,\nand I can definitely relate and I'll"
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    "text": "share my thoughts on that.\nBut let's first, uh, hear what he has to"
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    "text": "say."
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    "text": "You see, when I was learning,\nI would rely heavily on channels like"
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    "text": "or Ben Awad, or even this individual,\nMaximilian, uh,"
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    "text": "Schwarz Mueller.\nI won't even pronounce his name,"
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    "text": "Yeah, it's Schwarzmuller,\nand I think it's a super easy name in"
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    "text": "so I don't know why you did not get this\nright."
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    "text": "Where he made a lot of courses on stuff\nlike Udemy about"
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    "text": "React and other things, and so did Ben\nand so did Traversy."
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    "text": "And now if you look at their channels,\nyou will see something very different."
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    "text": "And you can even see through his channel,\nthere's not that many"
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    "text": "Age.\nThe junior developer will look different"
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    "text": "It's a bunch of different things where\nit's people explaining their"
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    "text": "tech-related topics.\nBen Awad doesn't even make videos"
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    "text": "anymore,\nso he's just no longer doing this."
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    "text": "Um, this individual, Maximilian,\nif you go to his channel and you go to his"
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    "text": "videos,\nthere's absolutely no more tutorial videos"
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    "text": "that type of content."
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    "text": "Yep. And that's exactly the point,\nbut again, I'll share more thoughts"
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    "text": "on this. He's absolutely right though."
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    "text": "Of course coding tutorials have had better\ntimes,"
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    "text": "let's be totally honest. Now,\nI will say that on"
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    "text": "this very channel,\nif you're watching this on YouTube,"
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    "text": "was founded,\nI created this channel to share my"
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    "text": "share tutorials is the Academind channel,\nbut of"
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    "text": "has seen better days with more activity."
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    "text": "I'll be totally honest,\nand you have to scroll down quite a bit"
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    "text": "to see those old school tutorials there."
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    "start": 160.6,
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    "text": "Now, I have some plans for this channel.\nI'll share them."
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    "start": 164.43,
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    "text": "And I, uh, don't just have plans.\nI already got some, I think,"
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    "text": "I mean,\nyou've got Code With Antonio with his"
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    "text": "numbers, the question is if it's worth it,\nbut that is for him to"
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    "text": "That's so much wasted time, really."
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    "text": "wholeheartedly agree with everything\nMelkky Melkay said"
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    "text": "I think we'll just have to adjust,\nand I'll definitely try to do that."
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    "text": "I'll keep on creating educational content"
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    "text": "on Academind as well.\nI got some nice tutorials, actually one"
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    "text": "full course for free lined up on\nthat channel."
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    "text": "I got plenty of ideas. Time\nis the only issue."
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    "text": "Definitely please also share what you're\nthinking of all of that."
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    "text": "What are your thoughts on this\nor what did I maybe"
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