I dislike YouTube links because I don't like watching videos. Text posts are easy to skim and quote. Videos are slow, hard to quote, and often full of self promotion.
Providing a textual description of the video in the post body is a decent compromise.
Fast check from a /all lurker - I imagine it is that you post only a youtube link with no summarising text of what the video says.
Because videos suck and they're a no-effort post on your part.
Don't be lazy - If I wanted to watch shitty videos by amateurs, I'd go right to YouTube myself.
Even worse when videos are posted with no commentary - that's an automatic downvote.
Videos are the worst
It’s also extremely low effort - if you want to discuss a video post it with a summary in the body and your own reaction as the first comment, and I some people may engage with that
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