YouTube have worked really hard this year to help people balance their media consumption with real life.

Everytime I am confronted with another irritating YouTube advert I close the App and say “Thanks YouTube. You are right, I didn’t need to watch a detailed unboxing review for a product I neither want, nor need to know exists. I will do something in the real world and try you again in an hour”

I now find myself thinking twice before even opening the App.

Even better on my PC, because I use AdBlockers, YouTube doesn’t even let me waste my time, even when I want to.

Truly, Do No Evil

I have Nebula but it kinda sucks. Content is too narrow and too US focussed. I really want a YouTube alternative but until they start to let more creators on the platform, not sure this is it.

Data. Return to your quarters

It could also lead to a human version of “Paris Syndrome” where people AI Undress their crush, only to be sorely disappointed when the real thing is not as good.

Reminds me of the time I got a quiz question wrong; who was the first Man on the Moon.

I wasn’t born, but everything I’ve ever read said it was Neil Armstrong, so that’s what I answered.

The idiot quiz master said it was Buzz Aldrin (the second man). In disbelief, I tried to educate them of their error, only for the rest of the room, mainly boomers, to tell me I was wrong. Including one guy in his 80s who said “It was definitely Buzz. I watched it when it happened. I remember it well”.

I asked him “who said the famous ‘one small step for man’?”

Him: “Ahh yes, Now that was Armstrong.”

Me: “Surely Buzz would say those words if he was the first one out. I mean there is literally video of the event. You even watched it live”

Him: “Yes, it’s Armstrong in the video. But Buzz was definitely first out. Who do you think was holding the camera?”