Comment on More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’
Matriks404@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What are they doing there? I spend a lot of time on YouTube, but if there are no new videos from channels I subscribe I just quit.
I’ve spent over 2,000 overs on YouTube this year alone and am in the target demographic of this study. I watch a lot of videos in the background while I work, commute, or just chill, to keep myself stimulated.
Although not all of the content I watch is necessarily educational, a grand majority of it is. Whenever there’s a science video in my feed, I’ll probably click it. I’m subscribed to Veritasum, TED, Vox, No Boilerplate, etc.
I’m on it about ten hours a day when I’m at home, sometimes 15. About the same amount of time I used to listen to the radio - it’s great background for when I’m coding, modelling, video editing or whatever plus a great way of relaxing in-between as well as being a great learning resource.
It’s great because I can choose what to watch based on the task I’m doing, background waffle about interesting but missable subjects works well for a lot of stuff. I like twitch too but at it’s live I can’t walk away so easily if I get absorbed into someone’s stream so find YouTube much more functionally useful.
15 hours…sleep for 8 hours, and you have 1 waking hour where YouTube isn’t playing.
I guess old people are/were like this with TV and/or radio, though, so it’s nothing new.
you’re just not subscribed to enough channels. I probably spend 4h+ a day on average, mostly watching channels I’m subscribed to, and I don’t usually watch everything. Ah, and no shorts, that’s garbage.
DoctorTYVM@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are using YT shorts. The next video auto populates with something the algorithm thinks you’ll watch for 15 seconds and it’s usually correct. Its like a slot machine. Quick and easy entertainment that people can lose hours in
AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 6 months ago
YT shorts is garbage. It will show the same videos to me over and over again.
gunpachi@lemmings.world 6 months ago
I have seen that almost every time I used yt shorts.