As an adult I can relate with the fact that Youtube is addictive while Netflix is not. If I had to guess why I would say that it's due to the fact that Netflix

As an adult I can relate with the fact that Youtube is addictive while Netflix is not. If I had to guess why I would say that it's due to the fact that Netflix is mostly fictions. There is a limit to how much fiction I can consume before having enough. On the other hand Youtube has a lot of non-fiction content on specific niches. The kind of content that teases the brain just enough to make me feel that I'm learning something and not in fact wasting my time, similar to HN. This is made worse by the very accurate algorithm, which works so well because Youtube has orders of magnitude more content than other platforms.