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I guess I might actually go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight then...

• alexpadula 1y ago
  I thought I could crack a book or write something but It's rather entertaining watching all the peoples reactions.
• mythrwy 1y ago
  Haha yes you and me both. These shorts are horrible. I know everyone hates on them, but they are brain crack for me and I can watch them for hours. I'm pretty sure they devastate your ability to focus though. I really notice it when I've been watching heavily. Something like chronic weed smoking in effect. I never got on tiktok thank goodness. And no I'm I'm not going to pretend I watch a lot of enlightening long form documentaries. It's all a guy in Pakistan making gears followed by a dog falling off a boat followed by a short clip from a movie and I don't recall any of it 30 seconds later. Pure brain eating dopamine.
  • Aurornis 1y ago
    Honest question: Why do you keep it on your phone then? If some habit had this bad of an effect on me I’d be going to lengths to cut it out of my life.
    • brewdad 1y ago
      It's almost like breaking bad habits is hard.
      • Aurornis 1y ago
        The parent commenter isn’t trying to break a habit. They said they enjoy it and choose to do it. I’m asking why they do that despite the extreme negative effects they note.
    • mythrwy 1y ago
      Because I enjoy it! Maybe I should have made that point stronger in my original post. It's way better than watching silly movies or playing video games (which I never got into for some reason). But it does require heavy moderation. Under half an hour in the evening only seems to be fine.
• benjaminclauss 1y ago
  really soul crushing to realize YouTube needs to go down to see how I default to opening it