When was the last time you talked to a boomer?

Anyone a year older than a zoomer to them is a boomer lmfao

That’s the spirit!

Meanwhile everyone keeps donating to Youtube Premium and then complaining about it lol

Honestly debatable. I’ve seen more and more good channels depart or stop posting, or others gradually turn into “react” content channels that only discuss tiktok drama or politics. Even so-called Breadtube for smaller channels has become synonymous with that embedded stereotype.

I compared a screenshot I took of my subscriptions feed from a year ago to now and was startled by the amount of change in incendiary content. It’s like the definition of doomscrolling.

I used to spend over 4 hours a day on youtube just watching video essays and skit comedy, but now I split most of that time across writing, itch.io, and catching up on anime. I have so much more free time I finally decided to start One Piece lmao (might try finishing Bleach too)

My issue with those sites is that since they’re not direct mirrors, they don’t have a dedicated archive. And since archive.org has stopped saving youtube videos, that could lead to a lot of lost media. It’s a cultural cornerstone that’s been around for nearly two decades. If I can’t access 15 year old YGOTAS videos then it’s just not a viable replacement to me lol

Nah, take a look at the stats of the number of people who tried out an adblocker for the first time when Youtube attempted to ban them several months back. Streisand Effect in action.

Exactly, people used to love ads. They would sit down and watch hour long compilation videos of the funniest and weirdest ones. People would get hyped for shit like Old Spice and Skittles and never skip it. Even the Superbowl was less entertaining than the ads it had and that was a mainstream opinion.

It’s the exact same as the boomers who keep crowing “Why doesn’t anyone wanna work?!” but now it’s “Why doesn’t anyone want ads?!” lmao

That’s why they invented adblock lol

Yeah you’re literally part of the problem lol

You’re actively funding enshittification, at least the rest of us are innocent

The ironic part is that there was a time where I’d watch hours long compilation videos of funny ads, and even now I watch 90s nostalgia ones set to vaporwave mixes. Hell, every person and their grandmother I knew at one time watched the Superbowl “just for the ads”.

At some point, the goal of marketing shifted from “How do we keep your attention/whimsy” to “How can we force unwilling participants to comply?” Fuck that fascismo shit.

Duckplayer on Android also skips ads!

Invidious if you don’t wanna install a bunch of software

Invidious

Y’all still on YouSlop?

Invidious gang rise up!

Fucking dorks lmao

Ftr, women do this too with their menstrual cycles. Stop using apps to report your most intimate info and then being surprisepikachu.jpg when they harvest your data lol

Haha holy shit

Oh my god, right? I’m so used to it at this point that I don’t even have to do forensics on it because it will inherently annoy the fuck outta me whenever I see it lmao

It always reads like an edgy 12 year old with main character syndrome wrote it.

Not 11.

Not 13.

But 12 — the prime of youth — a microtruth vibe of quiet acknowledgement.

And when that feeling shifts?

That’s when you truly see the excess needless paragraph indents for what they are.

Not a desperate vye for the appearance of being deep — never a desperate vye — But a signature of lolsorandom AI speak trying to look a credible source.

Oh fuck.

That’s for letting me know this- I would have eventually tried this one out someday thinking it looked neat lol

Can confirm.

Protip to not become a resentful adult: Vent and vent often. Keeping that shit bottled up is the starting breeding ground for most of today’s personality disorders.

Quiet resentment eventually begets external aggression.

Lmfao mood, main reason I left my last reddit-alternative actually.

At least there’s a wider sample size here, so not everyone has turned unbearably toxic. Not yet anyway