#this site's become a replacement for mainstream entertainment for many and it's. scary to think about

[kelprot-old]

sometimes my utter disdain for social media bleeds into other sites and Well its just annoying because now I open up youtube and see open mouth shocked thumbnails arrows pointing etc. andpeople putting hundreds of hours into videos of their own and how they often gain little reward for it other than just. comments. or whatever. and its just. the whole site is kinda scary.

#sometimes i think about youtube too much and my brain hurts #seeing the transformation of it over the past 10 years to what it is now is. its a lot #this site with. an unfathomable amount of content on it. thousands of things uploaded a minute #but 95% of it will never see any success nor pay back the efforts of their creators #not to say passion projects are bad or anything. you don't Need to make a profit for something to have value #im thinking moreso of how many people provide this site with content out of this need for a response #response being like. idk. attention feedback The Need To Be Famous or whatever #youtube markets itself as a site that can make Anyone Famous !! Be yourself give us your time and energy and we will pay you back #i dont want to say it's free labour because it isn't really. like that #but sometimes i will scroll through youtube and see these streamlined thumbnails and profiles and accounts and I feel sick #this site's become a replacement for mainstream entertainment for many and it's. scary to think about #arguably i think there's something predatory about how it can coerce you into feeding it so much of yourself in exchange for empty promises #yes not everyone is like this but it's still bizarre how common the whole ''i did youtube because I wanted to be famous'' thing is #not that it doesnt make sense. but. i dunno #i cant explain exactly what about it makes me feel so sick sometimes but. still #im aware a lot of this is me Reading into things too much and having a very adverse reaction to any social media-esque thing btw