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I can't help but wonder how my life would be different if mindlessly staring at screens wasn't an option (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube is my vice. I spend hours and hours and hours there watching videos every single day. I've recently however starting to resent the fact that apparently I seem to prefer watching other people do stuff rather than do that myself. Watching interesting videos feels like a leisure but doing interesting stuff has somehow in my mind turned into work.

Just few days ago I watched a Casey Neistat studio tour and I caught myself thinking how nice it would be to have a neatly organized space like that for making stuff. Well I have a space like that! I'm just never there because instead I'm in the house watching YouTube. I hate that. When I was younger I took apart solar lanterns to build a solar battery charger, I made a camera gimball stabilizer out of threaded rod, angle irons and plumbing pipe, I build a functioning submarine out of legos. Now I can't even remember when I last time build something just for fun.

While watching youtube is "fun" aswell however it's not memorable. I still remember my lego submarine from 20 years ago but I don't remember a single video I watched yesterday. I'm worried that if I keep doing this I'm basically just throwing my life away. There's always going to be another video to watch. I will never finish that project.

I guess I'm just venting. I'm sure there are people that can relate however. How do you guys deal with this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I wanna know is how y'all find so much content you're interested in. Me I feel like I've already watched everything I'd like. And now I'd be either waiting for new uploads or rewatching.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

YouTube algorithms finds it for me. It's not like everything I watch is super interesting but it always still seems more compelling than the alternative of getting up and actually doing something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My YT algorithms largely just recommend me the same stuff I’m subscribed to.

Although I did find myself addicted to scrolling through shorts for a week or two before I forced myself to stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I hide the shorts. They're ridiculously doom-scrolly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I think you need to get busy yeah. Get yourself a time-consuming hobby.