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Varyk: asks simple yes or no question
You: here's a 40 minute video explaining the whole story. It might answer your question, it might not.
Damn. Angela Collier getting downvotes? Wtf is wrong with all these people. There could not have been a more relevant and helpful response explaining the situation, especially in light of @[email protected]' rather shallow question that seemed to indicate a lack of understanding of the full context here…
"Huh? What are you even trying to say with this comment?"
Again: Varyk asked about a single aspect (whether or not Katy Perry has called herself an astronaut) and got a 40 minute video about the whole thing. No text summary or indication of whether or not the actual question would be answered, just "watch this"
Sometimes people know about the general subject already, but just need conformation on a detail.
It's very rarely good practice to answer surface level questions with links to long deep dive videos.
Even if the recipient WOULD like the full picture, an article is MUCH easier to skim or digest whenever you want to.
A video is a time commitment and 40 minutes is about 38 minutes past the maximum reasonable time to answer a quick question.
Relevant? Possibly. Helpful? For reasons explained above, nope. Not really.
You don't know that. You just assumed that it was a rhetorical question meant to end discussion rather than an honest question meant to provide context on whether or not the meme itself is fair to Katy Perry. In assuming ignorance and bad faith, you're being very unfair to Varys.
Btw, just in case they haven't found out themselves, here's an ACTUAL answer to the ACTUAL questoion:as far as I've been able to find out, she's NOT self-identified as an astronaut.
While that's not conclusive, it's more than likely that a lot of people would comment on it if she did, so someone who knows how to look not finding anything in one eighth of the runtime of that video would make it highly improbable.