Explainer videos are dark patterns that replaced written howto documents in order to serve ads. Not seeing them pop up any more in search results is one of the few positive outcomes of Google switching to AI-first search results.
Kind of whitewashing howto docs here--which in recent years have been replaced with (human-made) solely optimized for SEO to serve ads. That's why explainer videos took off in the first place.
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