If It Needs A Tutorial
A frustrated man holds a remote while watching a tutorial video on how to turn on his TV, with a “Hard Pass” mug on the table.
If you need a tutorial video just to use something, it’s probably not intuitive.
Modern tech loves to promise simplicity while quietly requiring a full onboarding course. From smart TVs to apps and “user-friendly” interfaces, everything now runs on layers of menus, updates, and hidden settings that somehow make basic tasks feel like advanced training. AI, algorithms, and automation are supposed to make life easier, but instead they often assume you already know how everything works—then send you to a video when you don’t. It’s less plug-and-play and more search-and-pray (see Smart Devices Need Wi-Fi Now: https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/smart-devices-need-wifi-now).
The real issue isn’t the tutorial—it’s that the tutorial exists at all. When turning on a TV requires a walkthrough, something in the design went sideways. Between constant software updates and over-engineered features, tech keeps getting smarter while usability quietly disappears. At some point, the product stops serving you and starts assigning homework.
Because nothing says “easy to use” like needing instructions to begin.
Explore more Chad Geepeety™ cartoons about AI, tech, and the everyday problems that upgrades somehow make worse. (see Software Updates Fix Nothing: https://www.chadgeepeety.com/cartoons/software-updates-fix-nothing
