It's not just photography, it's all over Reddit and elsewhere. While I'm sure some of it's due to age, I think it's just a difference in internet culture. I started using the web early on when the culture was to RTFM and lurk before you post, but then again when the web took off I spent hours learning about any and everything I could, so I found value in learning about topics and making decisions from that.
Now everyone is instantly reachable by any number of methods and asking Google probably makes less sense when you can ask the person or the hive mind directly, so I kinda get it. We also have explainers and tons of talking heads on various platforms that will simply summarize and editorialize information, and a lot of people prefer that to reading various sources to reach a conclusion.
It's not just photography, it's all over Reddit and elsewhere. While I'm sure some of it's due to age, I think it's just a difference in internet culture. I started using the web early on when the culture was to RTFM and lurk before you post, but then again when the web took off I spent hours learning about any and everything I could, so I found value in learning about topics and making decisions from that.
Now everyone is instantly reachable by any number of methods and asking Google probably makes less sense when you can ask the person or the hive mind directly, so I kinda get it. We also have explainers and tons of talking heads on various platforms that will simply summarize and editorialize information, and a lot of people prefer that to reading various sources to reach a conclusion.