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It doesn’t bode well for society if kids and teenagers are spending more and more time watching YouTube videos and Twitch streamers compared to scripted shows,

It doesn’t bode well for society if kids and teenagers are spending more and more time watching YouTube videos and Twitch streamers compared to scripted shows, then.

52-6F-62 6y ago
To that end “Unboxing” and “review” videos seem to have already had their impact. It probably will make me an old man in the eyes of some portion of the following generation but there’s only so much that I can take of watching a person celebrate opening yet more free shit and yelling and swearing through an inanimate box at people they don’t know. It’s not all bad, but by I swear there are more “product review” channels than ever and they’re spreading like dandelions.
- ryandrake 6y ago
  Why would you watch it if you don't like it?
  - 52-6F-62 6y ago
    Most of the time I don’t. Since many shops are closed to anything but appointments in the music world I’ve relied on hearing some shared equipment demos and experiences which the recommendation algorithm promptly sees fit to take as suggestion that I love just watching product videos and unboxings so they regularly show up next in my queue and begin to play before I can get to preventing it. I’m also of a curious persuasion so I’ll stick it out for a while wondering what people find so fascinating—maybe that I was missing something. But I wasn’t, not so far as I’ve been able to tell yet. If a majority of what children take in from something as powerful as the immense capacity for information sharing as the internet is watching someone open a material item they covet over and over again I don’t think that it can possibly be healthy for them in the long term—especially with a lack of other contextual framing.
bennysonething 6y ago
I'll never understand unboxing. It's just depressing to think that anyone could waste their life watching someone else open boxes.

It doesn’t bode well for society if kids and teenagers are spending more and more time watching YouTube videos and Twitch streamers compared to scripted shows, then.

52-6F-62 6y ago

To that end “Unboxing” and “review” videos seem to have already had their impact. It probably will make me an old man in the eyes of some portion of the following generation but there’s only so much that I can take of watching a person celebrate opening yet more free shit and yelling and swearing through an inanimate box at people they don’t know. It’s not all bad, but by I swear there are more “product review” channels than ever and they’re spreading like dandelions.

ryandrake 6y ago
Why would you watch it if you don't like it?
- 52-6F-62 6y ago
  Most of the time I don’t. Since many shops are closed to anything but appointments in the music world I’ve relied on hearing some shared equipment demos and experiences which the recommendation algorithm promptly sees fit to take as suggestion that I love just watching product videos and unboxings so they regularly show up next in my queue and begin to play before I can get to preventing it. I’m also of a curious persuasion so I’ll stick it out for a while wondering what people find so fascinating—maybe that I was missing something. But I wasn’t, not so far as I’ve been able to tell yet. If a majority of what children take in from something as powerful as the immense capacity for information sharing as the internet is watching someone open a material item they covet over and over again I don’t think that it can possibly be healthy for them in the long term—especially with a lack of other contextual framing.

bennysonething 6y ago

I'll never understand unboxing. It's just depressing to think that anyone could waste their life watching someone else open boxes.