@purplelionjoe, When you said about an interesting story, I just remembered one that I wrote a few days ago. check it out here and let me know your thoughts.

https://steemit.com/life/@topdog/a-whistling-village-where-a-tune-is-your-name

Regarding the Videos, they take lot of bandwidth to download and watch. Most of the towns and smaller places in all developing countries, the network is slow and bandwidth is less. so instead of a seamless video, you will be buffering the video very often and soon you might lose interest.

So videos being heavy (on internet) many dont prefer it unless you have a very high speed internet in your place. then the narration style and other visual appeal also matters.

whereas writing is simple and people can take their own time to read, can come back and read again and again if they wish. so writing / blogging is always better than video. Video is good when you have lot of content and your story will be too long. I have seen videos of more than 1 hour duration here on steemit. Imagine writing a blog that runs so long. it will be a nightmare to read it.
so each have its own advantages and disadvantages. but steemit is primarily for blogs, not VLogs.