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[wolffyluna]

I've been trying to cut back on my Youtube Shorts habit. Mostly because it's a time suck and, like, I have plenty of relaxing time sucks that are more consistently enjoyable than shorts? (Sometimes the algorithm smiles upon me, sometimes it has no taste, but 'me, choosing what podcasts to download' usually has taste.)

But I now have a new reason to stop using it. Because for some reason it decided I really wanted to see a livestream of graphic! most likely real! violence!

And look. It's one thing for a time suck to be inconsistently enjoyable. It's rather another to be inconsistently enjoyable and randomly serving me graphic violence that gets instantly seared into the back of my eyeballs. It's a real 'you only need one fleck of shit in an ice cream sundae to mean you should stop going to that ice cream store.'

Relatedly: do people have recommendations for vegetarian and vegan recipe bloggers and youtubers? Bonus points if they mostly make things that were originally intended to be vegetarian/vegan, instead of making variants of usually meat containing dishes.

Comments

[lb_lee]

WTF that sounds terrible and makes us glad we basically quit YouTube. (We have a few channels on RSS that update maybe 0-3 times a year, and a video game guy we watch on exhaustion days.) Who needs/wants that horrible surprise?

[wolffyluna]

Yeah it's. Bad. Not even the first time it's happened with Youtube shorts! (though the other one I'm more willing to believe was special effects.) It's not a problem with main youtube for me, so far, but still _@