I'm listening to music. I don't want to pause the music to listen to something that I could just read.

Other reasons I don't want to watch a video might include:

• I don't have headphones with me and can't play sound because e.g. I'm in public
• Watching moving pictures when I don't have to is annoying
• Reading is quicker than listening to the exact same text
• I'm just on Lemmy while doing something else and can't take that much attention away from the something else
• Videos - and articles - often have a load of extra fluff I'm not interested in, which is waayy easier to skip over if it's written.