Have you ever got carried away watching YouTube Shorts/TikTok?

No. I despise tiktok but I can totally get carried away watching long YouTube videos.

Particularly street epistemology videos in which people are asked how strongly they agree or disagree with a statement and then have to explain and defend their position. It's incredibly fascinating how strongly we can feel about something despite being completely unable to properly justify our stance.

It's the kind of content that gets you to examine your own beliefs and opinions and it regularly makes me realise that I need to research certain things more indepth.

Come to think of it...maybe that's why I have such trouble falling asleep...

I mostly watch YT-shorts since I only open TikTok all few weeks when I want to see what my fave artists posted (wich are mostly dance videos)

It got so bad that I fell in love with a dog-channel who does a lot shorts But the dog is sooooooo cute

But on the other hand I also see a lot random things I would've never seen without the shorts like

• Anyone knows the American woman who makes videos pretending to be different bodyparts and sysmtomes like vagina, fart, poop, stomach, brain,... and than she rolplays scenarios like pretending her liver and brain would talk to her about how she was drunk the last night or her vagina talks about sex and than the butthole gets scared again lol
• A lot of short beauty videos
• A lot of short dog videos
• All these "(things) in (country)" videos like "Random videogames around the world" or "things you shouldn't do in other countries"
• There are also a lot videos about people living in Japan from people who are Japanese themself and often also fluently in English and show you in short clips something about Japan (mostly food realated)
• I also get to see a lot shorts from an American woman who lives in Italy
• There is also a guy who makes random tests as like "If you guess these 5 logos corectly you are older than 12" or "If you answer most of these with a YES than you are smarter than 90% of the people" etc.
• I also see a lot of those hack-videos where a lifehack is shown and than a cat repeats to do the same thing
• Sometimes Youtube-shorts also shows me videos of a very tall guy who is the only normal sized person in a family of people with dwarfism
• And than I also see sewing videos. Mainly videos by German girls who be like "I got this nice sweater from my grandpa's closet, but it is way too big for me so I thought to sew it tighter" and at the end they present to you the most amazing upcycling ever
• And there is this plant-woman who allways talks so nicly about replanting and growing her own fruits, plants and vegies and than ends the videos with a growling sound in her voice
• What I also see a lot is stuff by an artist who makes dolls out of his 3D printer and he allways talks about what the idea behind it is when he draws them with POSCA-pens or when he paints on a doll he made etc.

Sometimes

lolol yep and the bad thing is i dont even know how long ive been scrolling till i look at the time

yes!