The problem is that most people don’t understand The chain reaction problem here. Watching one calming video is unlikely to lead you to become addicted to calm

The problem is that most people don’t understand The chain reaction problem here. Watching one calming video is unlikely to lead you to become addicted to calming videos. YouTube is optimized for the hook, and calming videos aren’t hooky. The much more salient videos tend to be the sensational ones, and people who don’t have the understanding of that fact are much more easily hooked. So while it can be a fountain of knowledge for one group of people, the insidious nature of the hooking algorithms still lurk beneath that surface.