How to learn a subject if you have no prior knowledge, but the content you're trying to learn relies heavily on that prior knowledge to understand?

I don't like watching videos and most YouTube videos are boring or filled with fluff, so I prefer to read text. I've been trying to read articles online to learn a new subject, but no matter where I start, I'm stuck in infinite loop of constantly having to look up prerequisite information that I don't know, and then having to look up more prior knowledge to understand the prior knowledge I just learned, and then more prior knowledge to understand the info I just learned, etc. <br><br>For example, I'll be reading an article about subject C, and I see a term I don't know that relates to subject B. When I go to learn about subject B, I see terms there that relate to subject A. And when I go to read about subject A, I see terms I don't know that relate to subject D. It's not a problem with the articles I'm reading, because its just as confusing if I change sources. Its a problem with basically everything relying on prior knowledge. I'm aware that prior knowledge is necessary, but is there a good way to work on that? Just jumping from website to website constantly seems inefficient, like I'm bouncing around like a ping pong ball.<br><br>I guess I could just make a list of everything I don't know, and then go down the list one by one, but that feels like a disorganized way of doing things. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.