Unangbangkay

Cohost of @unangbangkay on Twitter

Josh Tolentino | weeaboomer, Gamist
| work: RPG Site, Game Rant, Gamecritics | ex: Siliconera, Destructoid

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Specifically I'm referring to the third tweet, where Alienrun42, a self-declared young person, asks me to elaborate on my old man crack about, basically, how my media habit of watching reruns of old shows and long-running anime has "saved" me from developing a crippling addiction to trying to find long YT video essays that may or may not be particularly well-researched

the background is @kayin's thread re: freeing yourself from Content, i.e. learning to identify and avoid empty-calories video and develop wider ranging viewing habits

I didn't feel the need to respond to them beyond a simple "I guess I just...watch the shows?"** because a scan of their TL showed a lot of replying "based." to culture war types 😬

**Aside: What does "researching anime a lot" even mean in the context of someone's YT habits? they're watching a lot of other peoples' reaction videos to anime or videos about anime and never actually watching the shows themselves?

Anyway, the genuine question did prompt me to look at my own media habits a bit more, looking at why I haven't added Youtube to my slate of habitual media sources. So far here's what I've observed:

  1. I only ever go to youtube when I need to. It's never a place I go if I don't have anything else to watch, so I don't check in with favorite channels or influencers unless I am specifically looking for something from them (like a guide or a review or a recipe).
  2. I can't watch anything new on background, because I have difficulty tuning out novel information. If I need to focus and want something on in the background it has to be something i've seen before (or is at least familiar/inconsequential enough that I can mentally filter most of it, like a cheap battle show or something like Highlight Reel, which is just clips from games)

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