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"I literally screenshot everything from video tutorials because ChatGPT can't process video content"
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"I asked GPT-5 to summarize a document into a table, something 3 and 4 could do instantly, and it just broke. I wasted 30 minutes fixing its mistakes"
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"It's like my ChatGPT suffered a severe brain injury" (4,600+ upvotes)
This confession from a marketing consultant on Reddit got 3,400 upvotes and 892 comments saying "Holy sh*t, this is me."
The great irony of 2025…
The people who invested the most in learning AI are now the least productive with it.
Here's what else she admitted:
"I've spent probably 100+ hours collecting the 'perfect' prompts.
Marketing prompts, sales prompts, strategy prompts. I watch YouTube tutorials at 2x speed and screenshot everything because ChatGPT can't process videos. My desktop is a graveyard of screenshots named 'Screenshot 2024-11-15 at 3.42.17 AM.'
Last week I lost a client to a competitor. I know for a fact they use basic ChatGPT. But while I was searching through my prompt library trying to find that 'perfect customer persona analyzer,' they just...shipped the work.
I've become a prompt hoarder. And it's killing my business."
The responses revealed an epidemic:
