21:25 wow what a hypocrite get off youtube

@dabocousin

Жыл бұрын

Damn that's crazy... Why did you click read more?

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Жыл бұрын

Sadly we all live in late stage runaway capitalism. Gotta hustle or... die? Pretty sure it's die...... Pretty sure dying is what happens when you no more money...

@Kwint.

Жыл бұрын

The best example of this is corecore, which explains perfectly how people are just tired of todays society and tired of following the same path over and over again every day

@JohnSnow1001

Жыл бұрын

@olisunvia Have you heard of Metaphysical Milkshake hosted by Rainn Wilson and Reza Aslan? If you haven’t I think you’ll like it.

@Nah_I_Would_Plummet

Жыл бұрын

lot's of inconsistencies and assumptions and bad faith interpretation but i agree with the general message. We simply have to adapt. Reclaim the internet from exploitative corporations and educate the masses on media literacy.

Being ok with boredom is truly a superpower nowadays

@aylinarkan199

Жыл бұрын

can one really be okay with boredom tho?... i really try my hardest to stay away from the source of distractions but i just can not

@deur

Жыл бұрын

@@aylinarkan199 last summer one day all i did was stare at a little rock i found in the garden, just sitting were with my thoughts, humming songs and remembering stuff. Just sit and do nothing is something you have to learn these days, but older generations still have this built-in

@aylinarkan199

Жыл бұрын

@@deur its harder to do it when internet is always in reach and you’re locked up in a place but when outside i think it just feels different not to anything and just be

@deur

Жыл бұрын

Cant agree more, its way harder than you have stable internet connection. Its like breathing under water, you have to make a choice (unlike in this analogy, conscious) and rise your head

@julianbryant1115

10 ай бұрын

To the people who grew up in chaos, peace is easily mistaken for boredom

I just now realized how absolutely boring life is without meaningful social interactions. We seek distractions to avoid going mad

@Francisco-Danconia

Жыл бұрын

100% We're hard wired to feel our best through deep and meaningful social connection

@iCookCrystalMeth

Жыл бұрын

sadly that well is drying up nowadays

@phaggott

Жыл бұрын

interesting that some would switch your statement around maybe that's the diff between intro/extrovert

@imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881

Жыл бұрын

I'm absolutely fine without social interactions. But even though I say that, my lonely ass will come back to bite me in the future.

@cc1drt

Жыл бұрын

@@imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881 you’re still socializing through the internet. Thats just more comfortable for you because you dont feel confident in your own skin. Not an insult, many people feel this way especially nowadays

i’m on a mission to restore my attention span, deleting tiktok was my first step

@samarakirkkk

5 ай бұрын

i just don’t want to miss out

@rekkie142

5 ай бұрын

​@@samarakirkkkdon't worry there are so many different apps and sites to use to know what's going on in the world

@amy-wc8tk

5 ай бұрын

@@samarakirkkkexactly it’s so difficult, a main way of communication with my friends when i’m not with them is by sending tiktoks and starting a discussion about them, and without that i’d feel incredibly left out.

@aijhqjhhwiiqbow4495

5 ай бұрын

​@samarakirkkk trust me you're not missing out anything

@jamescarr1265

5 ай бұрын

Good luck someone please reply in this thread to remind me to start reading again

I just realised i cant watch a youtube video without reading comments. As soon as i open a random video i run to the comment section.i dont even listen to the video. We are becoming more and more worried abt others opinion these days.

@BeingBetter

Ай бұрын

Same😢

@evanescentnecsenave

Ай бұрын

ME RN😭😭😭

@bazzxliner

Ай бұрын

Damn..

@esraashadi-er5he

Ай бұрын

True!!

@nateclipps

Ай бұрын

This is literally me… it’s so unfortunate

What's crazy is how quickly you can get your attention span back if you try and cultivate it. Not only can you weed your garden by removing short form content, dopamine rush social media from your life, but meditating, exercise, reading, and long walks without music or podcasts, when I'm consistent, put me into a zen level of focus. Conversations become excellent because people love how focused I am on what they're saying, because I really am listening to them intently. When I find someone who can do the same back, it's amazing.

@chitseinh1792

Жыл бұрын

fr me too, I love finding other persons who can talk with me for hours about different topics about our daily lives and philosophy cuz we're both intently focused on the conversation. I think it's honestly the best form of being able to learn from others and have those meaningful moments that brings people closer. It's kind of a shame that our current media forms and content are causing us to value entertainment over important things that are actually relevant to our lives, and that talking about things that may feel boring to others somehow makes it not worthy of discussion.

@simonshura9144

Жыл бұрын

Boooooring

@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062

Жыл бұрын

@@simonshura9144 🤡

@Buttersaemmel

Жыл бұрын

sorry got no time to read all of this, but you wrote something about weed so take my like.

@jordanmartin8656

Жыл бұрын

How long did it took for you

I always feel self-conscious whenever I sit on a park bench without a phone or a book. It feels like passers-by must think I'm staring at them, because any "normal" person would be doing something instead of just sitting. This video helped me put that thought in focus. I think the idea that we all require constant entertainment has become a social norm - it feels uncomfortable to be seen going against it.

@crazymadstriker766

Жыл бұрын

yea and you suddenly look and feel like the odd one out even though all you want to do is talk to the people around you yet they're too busy on their phones

@saintallison

Жыл бұрын

​@@crazymadstriker766 I've been surprised how receptive most people are to a smile and a hello, maybe even a compliment. It's unexpected, but nice to have a genuine interaction.

@crazymadstriker766

Жыл бұрын

@@saintallison Maybe it just depends on the person, I tried with some of the people sitting next to me in one of my classes, maybe 1 sometimes talks about film when I start a convo but I tried with the other 2 and it's just small talk then back to phone again

@crazymadstriker766

Жыл бұрын

@@saintallison It's easy to have genuine interactions with friends but strangers is much more difficult

@Suzume-Shimmer

Жыл бұрын

Haha I use to see people staring at their phone and feel sorry for them that they were missing out on so much around them...

all of gen z (including me) feels nostalgic of the late 2000s and early 2010s but it’s mostly just because we were kids. we had all these amazing toys, we mostly didn’t have to worry about other peoples opinions about us. we had minimal to no school work and when we did it was done in mere minutes. everything was simpler back then, but that’s just how childhood works.

@nerida3347

5 ай бұрын

Not all of us, i like being an adult, my childhood was hard and stressful

@jennuhcide59

3 ай бұрын

@@nerida3347and being an adult isn’t?? 😭

@EneTheGene

3 ай бұрын

​@@jennuhcide59All about your mindset. To me being an adult has brought plenty of responsibility but I enjoy the freedom it brings too and it doesn't really feel like I'm more stressed than in childhood.

@eltiolavara9

3 ай бұрын

@@EneTheGene i agree

@skrarara

26 күн бұрын

As a 1997 baby I just wish we could have now, 2024, just without all the short form content. Or at least that we could have an option to turn off the reels functionality on instagram.

The fact that I (born in the 2000's) would watch a 30 minute youtube video when I was younger and wouldn't get bored but now a 5 min tiktok feels like a eternity makes me realize how I am also getting stuck in this short videos addiction

The absolute guilt I felt, when I struggled to sit through this video due to the points she made brilliantly. How cursed we are.

@Nthdegree2

Жыл бұрын

What is a cursed world without its blessing existence? What is perfect without the imperfect? Exacto.

@TerenceGrier

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's just a boring video ??

@peregrinecovington4138

Жыл бұрын

​@@Nthdegree2 dumb & wrong

@sappychloe

Жыл бұрын

@@TerenceGrier boring video?? how entertaining is it supposed to be?! this is exactly what she’s talking about in this video lmao, we should be able to sit through and listen to what she has to say, but people struggle with it bcs of the constant need to feel stimulated/hit with enough dopamine

@TerenceGrier

Жыл бұрын

@@sappychloe hard disagree. If a video is boring/ not entertaining / not worth my time. Why should anyone feel obligated to watch it ? Can a video be both entertaining and informational? Yes! This is the hallmark for both great KZreadrs and great professors.

I think this is related to the 'shower thoughts' phenomenon, "all my best thoughts come to me in the shower" -- this might be the only part your day when you are forced to just be alone with your thoughts. As evidence, I've met some people who always listen to music when showering, which seems like too much work to me for 5 minutes or so. I also tend to have some good ideas when trying to fall asleep, and I imagine others do too, since entertainment is counterproductive there :).

@whathefuckisthis

5 ай бұрын

I think this is really true! I remember watching a TikTok (lol) about how constantly listening to music is basically a distraction to our minds and boredom. I’ve always listened to music on my way to school/work, but now I try to turn it off sometimes and let my mind wander. It makes me feel like I’m giving my own brain time to speak instead of constantly giving it art/media to process.

@selenay0320

4 ай бұрын

@@whathefuckisthisoh my god I literally had an enlightenment just now lmaooo (I listen to music almost 24/7 [85k mins on Spotify🫠])

@cooliostarstache5474

3 ай бұрын

Music helps me think and concentrate, whiçh is why I listen to music in the shower

@ruthnewstok7851

3 күн бұрын

Honestly. My best thoughts tend to come during long lonely drives - coincidentally the only time I cannot physically access my phone to scroll - and especially when I turn off the music/news to let my brain ramble.

The more "connected" we get, the more disconnected we become. Also, the people who are saying that your videos are boring are the type of people who you are talking about that put value into entertainment more than should be. Don't let the zombies and clones hinder you from saying what you want to say. Real people will listen.

@nemeshh3446

6 ай бұрын

What you have said is true, but sadly those real poeple you mentioned are not many left

@glenjennett

6 ай бұрын

@@nemeshh3446 Agreed.

@nihilego3634

4 ай бұрын

The last part doesn't sit right by me, read as dehumanizing and othering desu.

@Gico669

4 ай бұрын

It probably stems from us not viewing people as people anymore but rather as numbers and identities. We are reduced to this because the number of likes and comments on a video, for example, is made to be more relevant than the content of one of those many comments.

@ronque23

3 ай бұрын

No one is trying to connect you. They’re seeking to monetize discourse and engagement with the least amount of context possible. The more context they provide, the more an audience can critically analyze it for truth. The posters of this “information” don’t care about truth or enlightenment. Only engagement.

Honestly I have completly abandoned short length content and instead started to practice meditation whenever I have nothing left to do, I highly recommend!

@hannahclah5701

4 ай бұрын

yes me too :)

@ishanisen6547

3 ай бұрын

Amazing!

You reminded/opened my eyes: - How the world has changed - How media has changed - How I have changed for consuming too much of the media - How my attention span has changed Thank you. This educational video hits the mark!!!

@awesomelegs

8 ай бұрын

Definitely. I liked this vid as well (with a few exceptions), and your summary is fantastic ^_^

@karupsvivek992

8 ай бұрын

Being bored in an universe this weird is unacceptable ------- exurb1a

@chandrikadaswani3696

8 ай бұрын

What do y’all think is the scenario with such videos; in context with copyright issues if most of the ideas are reflections of the Neil postman content she’s consumed? 🤔 Sure she’s adding this day and age’s relevancy but is that enough to give her the credit of doing these things like eye opening?

@ec1ipsed_

6 ай бұрын

@@chandrikadaswani3696all ideas are accumulations of others’ previous ideas, no? theres no problem with adapting someone elses ideas slightly if its still helping people. its also hard to say that she only got this information from 1 specific person or creator when so many talk about this. i understand your point but im still grateful for this presentation of accumulated information!

@alebussytorres4109

6 ай бұрын

same!! ive been trying to stay off social media more because of video essays like these

I’ve gotten rid of all social media except KZread. I don’t regret it. It’s been 2 years. I still watch too much KZread, it’s hard to get rid of it for me but I think I would be better off in life without it at this point

@micahcracknell8547

Жыл бұрын

Same here; facedbook instagram and reddit were super easy to drop, but I find some KZread content so enriching life-changing. It also prevents me from being totally unable to converse with the zoomers in my life. I wonder what could replace it?

@Stegosaurus_a_freak_of_nature

Жыл бұрын

Same

@cbot9302

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, youtube is so hard to shake though... I always find myself wanting to watch just one more video

@p1ushyy522

Жыл бұрын

yeah it is very difficult to completely ban it from my internet or devices

@laney2n

Жыл бұрын

imo it's more powerful to teach yourself self control and personally limit yourself to social media then to delete it. i think social media at times is very helpful and educating

"Americans remember the last 24 hours more than they remember the last 60 years." That's the thought that will pop into my head when I think of oliSUNvia from now on.

As a 23 year old, my screen time on my phone is about 1 hour, the time I spend mostly is cooking my own 3 meals of the day and even dessert. Playing with my dog and taking him for walks, I grew up poor so I didn't get a phone till I was 18 and honestly I hate having a phone

@markmunroe-hz8rf

2 ай бұрын

I prefer to read, draw and just take aimless walks.

Lately it really does feel like life is just one big distraction

@Dave_of_Mordor

Жыл бұрын

and it's people falling for those distractions. i will always blame the people

@nicoledoubleyou

Жыл бұрын

It is. That's why everyone is depressed. There's very little fulfillment in the modern Western world. People living in the 3rd world are much happier than we are, and they live a life that has very little distraction.

@seelko01

Жыл бұрын

​@@nicoledoubleyou I can't really agree with this part about the third world living happier, I can't speak from every third world country but coming from one I can say we tend to seek even more distraction in the midst of harder times having to battle even more political corruption, higher crime rates and lack of resources. From a latin american perspective we tend to find the entertainment in misery because what else are you gonna do to keep yourself ahead? In one way or another social media affects all of us with different processes.

@willcoffarchives

Жыл бұрын

​@@seelko01 fax

@allie1256

Жыл бұрын

@@seelko01 what she said

Ironically, the speed of technology and communication is what's actually slowing me down. I can't concentrate, and I lose myself in meaningless nonsense instead of studying and leaning something useful.

@reaganward1

7 ай бұрын

riighttt.

@rifarizqul

6 ай бұрын

AGREED

@kaleeshsynth9994

6 ай бұрын

Hard for me to focus along with 24 hours cycle

@sofia6791

5 ай бұрын

I’ve been struggling with this so much recently

@karthikvijay5678

5 ай бұрын

So relatable

The Hunger Games reference was a chilling one, actually. I watched the films, and I was ENTERTAINED; I was entertained with the visual effects, how Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) dropped her headstrong-16-year-old-toppling-a-government lines, how romantic Katniss was with Peeta, how I was sad with her volunteering and sacrificing herself on behalf of her sister, Primrose. BUT, I say BUT, reading the book gave me a sense of DEEPLY knowing how effed-up the Hunger Games was. Yeah, I was creeped out by the gore visual effects of the movie, but I kept thinking (during reading the first book) if I and my sister (14 years old) would survive the games. You would think how TRULY BRAVE Rue and Katniss are for surviving half of the games while everyone was killing each other, the impending doom day by day, and the idea of the Quarter Quell where you get to be picked again to be locked in an arena with LITERALLY EXPERIENCED murderers and killers. Reading the book, reading the thoughts, the dialogues and the inner dialogues of the characters, and the act of just putting down the book for a second and think about what is truly happening inside the book made me realize that my I'm just consuming knowledge because it is fun to know or the idea of just knowing awes me.

@Samookely

3 ай бұрын

the hunger games movies are still good but i agree you dont really GET the message the hunger games is trying to get across in the movie like you do in the books. In the books katniss becomes a vessel for the reader to put themselves in her shoes to experience what she’s experiencing, while in the movies we are watching her from a 3rd person view.

Holy smokes this video is so refreshing. I've been that millennial guy who was warning my friends way back in 2014 about the power of echo chambers, i had a tech background and an interest in psychology and foresaw the effect it was having on conversation quality. Nearly 9 years later we have stepped into a new level of insanity.

@hannahclah5701

4 ай бұрын

yess sociology is insane, we need more people educated on history and the effects technology has had on society, knowledge will lead to change 🤞 gen z here

@ArtEveryday-mm1cg

4 ай бұрын

It's so important to highlight the social differences in the pre-brick-phone landline 1998 era where stimulation level was so low. The Smartphone has become a new drug, with drug-like withdrawals, and we mistreat its symptoms with other drugs, mistaking a lot of its symptoms to be a pathological mental illness, ADHD, Autism, Bipolar, etc. etc. I firmly believe we have an enormously upside-down relationship between expression and impression. A Negative impression is made on us - then we come home and vent it outwardly as an expression, this breathe-in breath-out cycle keeps the balance of good mental and emotional health. Today we constantly bombed with negative information at all times, and the brain was not designed to take on an emotional load that large, which is now playing into feelings of "Overwhelm' and "Overstimulation" leading to emotional exhaustion and eventually depression in large majorities of the population.@@hannahclah5701

The worst part is that, over the years, I’ve worked hard to unfollow as many useless accounts as possible so that I naturally check social media less. Then came tik tok and every other social media wanted to copy them so now we are force fed stuff we don’t even want (yt shorts, ig reels, Twitter for you). I wish they just let us see what we want to see.

@audrey293

Жыл бұрын

This wont help every app but on my laptop I use the expiation called unhook for KZread you can choose what to get rid of but it makes it available to get rid of recommendations shorts or comments etc it’s very good :)

@noahwarren9462

Жыл бұрын

the choice to not use them is still yours

@iCookCrystalMeth

Жыл бұрын

Delete em dawg

@aquarius1647

Жыл бұрын

@@noahwarren9462it is not that easy, usually I am the first to say that we ALWAYS have the choice, but here you are fighting agains’t psychologist, people that study humans reactions that WANT you to become addicted. It releases dopamine in your system constantly. I WANT to stop, I am taking actions but again, it is not that easy. And deleting those apps would have repercussion on my social life, love life, school life…

@maximusrusso8758

Жыл бұрын

@@iCookCrystalMeth I know, I wanted to choose moderation but these companies are giving me no choice now.

The talk of nostalgia is so real; I have friends talk about how nice it was when they were kids and how they didn’t have to worry about much, no taxes, etc. And I get those feelings too, but I also remember crying over homework, feeling weak and useless, and being cringe. When I mention this my friends can all relate, but for some reason it’s not the first thing they think of when thinking back on themselves.

@RB-yt6rx

8 ай бұрын

We are holding on to the part of our younger selves that use to be able to love life. Human brains crave familiarity. They will always choose a familiar pain over a new scarier one. So we tend to run backwards rather than forward when we dont know what else to do

@defibae

8 ай бұрын

Same, I have to remind myself everytime I get nostalgic for that stuff

@DarkGob

8 ай бұрын

She undercut herself with this very poor argument here. Gen Z is not the first generation to experience nostalgia, nor will it be the last. It has nothing to do with media and attention span, it's a natural reaction to aging and the passage of time. Entirely irrelevant to the topic being discussed.

@jayboy2kay7

8 ай бұрын

^^ I agree, I guess to younger viewers “nostalgia” is anytime after 2016 … but to anyone like me (31) nostalgic stuff is way back in the 90s … and even though I was born in 1992… nostalgic movies etc are from the 80s… it actually goes to show how even the “Nostalgic” stuff is an even shorter time ago, akin to their attention spans. I mean, when she said 2013, I was like what? That’s not long enough ago at all to be nostalgic about. Weird times we live in.

@Mysteriousmachine1

8 ай бұрын

I assume that when it comes to implicit social rules, it’s often treated as a burden to the ‘fun theatre’ of talking to mention your problems, and that it’s best to keep shut about it because the point of talking with friends and family is to have fun. So everyone is reluctant to mention it to not burden anyone else. This was my perspective, but I can’t say how many people feel the same way. I feel fortunate that a handful of people in my life have been more open to tugging at the difficulties with sincere dialogue, but it’s much more common for me to find people I don’t know well enough to go beyond the pure entertainment/drama layer of dialogue which is not to say anything about those people, just that dialogue is so uncertain sometimes that false fronts feel like my only option based on certain assumptions and insecurities I have about those implicit rules of talking to others.

Your speaking skills, witty composition, and substantive ideas are inspiring. You're doing amazing, congratulations on a million subscribers!

Understanding the fear of boredom is the key to everything

I refuse to use Tik Tok and it saddens me to see KZread embrace that format more and more. Great work here! Keep it up. 👍

@fleemoo317

10 ай бұрын

Same

@elvirak8846

9 ай бұрын

same here I rather get assaaulted by Zeus than use that app in a life time

@alrightloves

9 ай бұрын

​@@elvirak8846hAHAHHAH That's an interesting way to say it but I agree lmao

@ashwinirajgopal

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@elvirak8846assaulted by Zeus 😂😂😂😂😂

@F-ZSuperTerminator

9 ай бұрын

FYI: You can turn off YT shorts with Revanced

The average attention span shortening because of Tiktok is something I find very interesting. One app being invented has influenced how pretty much all media operates.

@takemetoyonk

7 ай бұрын

I agree. And for a lack of better phrasing, I find it strange that a majority of people imply in their wording that "just one thing" being created is often seen as powerless. I mean sometimes it really feels that way but it's all time and place, huh?

@rosegrimm4404

6 ай бұрын

Media has been using very short soundbites for a long time. Theres a Carl sagan quote about it. Vine was the precursor to Tiktok.

@cfehunter

5 ай бұрын

Vine did it first and it was a reaction to short form clips on youtube. It was an evolution of several stages that ended up causing this.

@aviapoIis

5 ай бұрын

I believe we all can amuse ourselves 100x better than any tiktok video or podcast. But it's just easier and faster to outsource self-amusement to internet and it eventually becomes a habit/addiction trying to reach that almoast impossible goal by listening others self-amusing themselves and laughing for you. Those things require you to become silent, passive, emotioneless consumer, instead feeling genuine pleasure, random waves of happiness and aliveness yourself. I have laughed uncontrollably for 9gag content, podcasts and comedy shows maybe 4 times in my life, but with inner self-dialogue its almoast effortless. We all have the creativity and imagination for it. There are some funny stuff worth of nose pfff exhale, but maybe I am here just for the small dose of dopamine of hearing new things and endless flow of meaningless information.

@stolenhero6650

5 ай бұрын

y'all acting like TikTok invented shortform content when it was originally a replacement for Vine, and the predecessor for that was youtube making 10 minute videos be the most optimal for content creation to dollar value produced allllll the way back even before vine was poppin'

" pictures don't leave the same room for opinions. You don't judge whether a picture is true or false the same way you judge a sentence" I wonder if this should be visited at a deeper level with all the AI and deep fakes. Just discovered your channel, subscribed! Very thoughtful and interesting stuff! Keep it up

@josmamatotaldrama

3 ай бұрын

lol when she said that I immediately thought "what about ai?"

@Lulubelll

Ай бұрын

This was exactly what I was thinking

2:59 mum I made it

@famzya6594

Ай бұрын

lol

I paused this video multiple times to pause and ponder so that I wasn't passively consuming. I try to restrict my diet of video/audio information in digestible amounts and try to monitor the noise consumed per week because if you live on the internet, you cant avoid it. You can minimise it,

@jose.montojah

Жыл бұрын

Age of white noise indeed

@wombat7961

Жыл бұрын

Recently i got an E-ink phone. You better believe im downloading books & manga, podcasts & music. Im done being manipulated by the data.

@migalateus5571

Жыл бұрын

This is actually an amazing idea thanks for sharing!

@Chillerll

Жыл бұрын

Another way to look at this is your adhd doesn’t even allow you to watch this video back to back.

@sea_of_love

Жыл бұрын

@@wombat7961 what's an e-ink phone?

this really opened my eyes. i realized entertainment is always there. when i’m eating i watch a movie or youtube. when i’m exercising i listen to music or a podcast. when i’m walking or biking somewhere i listen to music or a podcast. sometimes i choose not to, but that’s not often. when i’m going to sleep, i watch youtube or scroll instagram. when i wake up it’s usually the same thing.. it actually makes me sad, and no wonder i’m just freaking tired sometimes. sometimes i’m on the train or tram/subway it kinda shocks me how everyone is on their phone, it seems like it has become the new standard and i don’t want to but i also hate the feeling of being left out. i recognize it with so many of my friends and peers that they wanna stop and break out of it as well, but don’t really know how. i feel like at a certain point we’ll just hit a breaking point or something

@nairm

Жыл бұрын

This!...

@ahmedhaaqilrifky3531

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and believe it or not, entertainment is DRAINING. you may not notice it, but you're probably more tired after watching a youtube video then if yu had actually spent that time in your own mental space.

@honeyjam9593

Жыл бұрын

@@ahmedhaaqilrifky3531 i agree 100%. these days i've been trying to be more mindful of how i spent my energy, trying to moderate it

@littlesometin

Жыл бұрын

@@ahmedhaaqilrifky3531 Very well said. Sometimes after a day of KZread I feel so tired like I've done a day of work, and I haven't actually done anything. But a day of constructive work can actually feel rejuvenating!

@burnttoast55

Жыл бұрын

exactly. sometimes i'll be sitting in a public place and look around and it will feel like the people around me are living in a completely different world. the lack of people present with their surroundings is very very sad. something has to change soon, feels like we're getting to a point where things are just so stagnant

oh my goodness. im 13 and have recently been needing to find what I'm most interested in to make a plan for the next years of high school. I've always loved politics, business, law, and the way society works. i find your videos so interesting. i just discovered your channel yesterday and watched 3 videos and I'm OBSESSED!! you are an amazing talker who explains things clearly and makes everything fit perfectly. about to go binge watch every video!

@gangviolence3558

12 күн бұрын

Don’t stress keep it pushing, good thing that your educating yourself

I did a lot of these in my studies:)) it made me hate the world 😭 media is very very calculated even the smallest things that we think are unimportant is so calculated and thought-out and can shape our views in big ways - scary bit is we don’t even realise it. That and combined with the “main character syndrome” (what about me-ism) of today’s age, not only every media is believed but most of the time we are not going to cross-check or do proper research to see if the information we just received is true - or at the least- to shape our own opinions on matters, because what I saw just HAS to be true. Or what I BELIEVE, even if it’s based on incorrect info, IS the TRUTH. The saddest thing is, we are not forced to be like this - we are literally choosing to do so because of many reasons (and a lot of them really valid reasons). What I mean is that we can restrict our consumption of media and be aware of what media we listen to (as in we get information from) - that’s the part we choose not to do

@chocolateeater4866

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, as in we need to open things for discussion - with everyone. There are so many perspectives we miss, if we choose one path.

@josmamatotaldrama

3 ай бұрын

We need to normalize fact checking

The most horrible thing with it all is that social media makes you think you can't live without it. The FOMO is exagerrated bc instagram wants you to believe that you'll miss an important dm or info if you uninstall it. Also, it is SO necessarry for me to practice not being on my phone in awkward or waiting moments... but i promise its 100% worth it, life without distraction and instead, meaningful content (movies, books) is totally different. It makes you actually aware of whats going on around you, of your feelings and your own person.

@matthewvelasquez5630

11 ай бұрын

awkward moments are actually make me feel good, reminds me that we just human not a robot. we think we need to talk and express perfectly like siri does but honestly i want the complete opposite of that, i think we all do.

@MickeyMouse-lm6zj

11 ай бұрын

I'm not even old, but I keep telling people the internet has done more bad than good and that life was better without it, it is ruining attention spans, peoples brains, and making people crazy, there's so many terrible takes that are spreading now that wouldn't even be thought of in the past, and a lot of the time people encourage the craziness, and then people think I'm some sort of boomer we are not built for any of this, and it's all so new still, it will only get worse as time goes on, a solution must be done quick

@MickeyMouse-lm6zj

11 ай бұрын

let me add one more thing, corporations control the internet and they are intentionally getting people addicted to milk them, it will keep going and going until it's not possible to get people any more addicted

@zfr33ze87

11 ай бұрын

@@matthewvelasquez5630what a great way to look at it, I will definitely have this mindset going forward

@anadandrade8064

10 ай бұрын

this is so true, I've been fighting with instagram for so long, but I don't want to delete it because I feel like I'll miss out connecting with my distant friends and other people that i kinda know. Ps: I have 3 friends that I actually care abt, the rest I don't even talk to, and it's not really important to know if they got in a different school, their relationship status, and random details abt their life. Not to mention why do I feel like I NEED to post things abt my life, even though i know that the people who see it, don't even care about me or how i look or my decisions. This video made me realize i should for sure delete instagram lol

Wanna know something funny? I watched this video and it really got to me and i started thinking about what i should do to get out of this cycle, and the gears were turning in my head and i felt very much in the moment, and then i opened insta and started scrolling again. Did so for 4 hours, and then i was gonna get something to eat before i thought about this again. And now im not just worried but im scared not just for knowledge and information that i do adore, but for myself, what will become of me now? i have had so many dreams and goals for so many years but it feels like my entire life is a blur of me holding my phone, my tablet, my laptop, watching tv, playing games. I don't remember what it feels like to live a life and i don't remember ever having one, im just a blur of everything I've consumed. I'm like gluttony from full metal alchemist, see that even how i talk and think is the stories ive seen. I didn't realize it but im one of the people that "need stories like oxygen" at this point they don't have to be true or right or even good, idek why i wrote this maybe because i probably wont even be in the moment ever again to make this confession to someone i know or even someone at all. I can just let sit here for someone else, a stranger, to consume.

@abigailtaylor2097

8 ай бұрын

i think it’s so crazy to read someone’s deepest thoughts, worries, personal anxieties like I don’t understand that other people have lives that experience the same things as i do. i feel kinda out of touch with the world atm and just people in general. what i wanted to comment on was that i know you posted this comment 3 weeks ago, and you’re probably feeling better now, but your comment really got to me!! i’ve been feeling this way for years, feeling as though theres somethings wrong with me, like i’m not in control and that i need to do something in order to feel happy and alive again. granted it was for a different reason, but your comment really resonated with younger me. i want you to know that it’s not your fault you ended up in this cycle and that you’re still on a journey to finding happiness and fulfilment in life. your life isn’t ruined because some of your life was taken up by social media’s trap. and you’re also not alone in this ❤️ so many people are in your (and mine too tbh lol) situation. something i’ve been think about lately is how so many people put blame and alienate others as if they aren’t humans as well. we’re all human beings with intricate and complex lives that’re experiencing the same things as one another. you are most definitely not alone. i forget this sometimes and i need to remind myself a lot. please don’t be scared ❤️ remember there’re billions of people out there going through the same situation, it’s all part of the journey. your life is still to be lead by you!! you can still make changes in your life :) if you feel as though you haven’t been living lately, why don’t you try and have a bit of a device detox, go outside, talk to your family and friends, start a new hobby (which involves a physical activity perhaps, like drawing or cooking or writing). life is full of so many opportunities and fun and life and happiness, it pains me to read that you’re going though the unfortunate pain that i think a lot of people in this age are going through atm. idk if this even helped and there’s a part of me that wanted to write this for myself aswell to reinforce it in my own head lol, but the world isn’t a dystopia. life is what you make it :)

@illusion4ix

8 ай бұрын

I am writing this only for you please read okay , I will be happy if you I will be somehow able to help you a little bit. Okay ,same thing was doing with me , now I am free from social media and the other unwanted stuff. I am going to write this in 3 para - first (problem ) Second (solution ) Third (motivation, procrastination ,overthinking) See ,if you find insta and other social media time waste and eating your life , you have to deactivate and uninstall it. It doesn't matter what others will think or your acc will get destroy and you have to make a new one . the most important is your control in life ,feeling happiness in doing what you enjoy. Also if you tell yourself you will use just 20mins on social media ,its a lie to yourself and you again start using for 4-5 hours and feel guilty after that. So your enemy is the mind which forces you to use social media and other addictive stuff. But if you remove the social media from your life completely by doing something then your mind cant force you to use coz you cant use. So, the solution . first of all permanently delete or temporary delete your social media and uninstall it . Then install all the important apps that you need and which are useful to you. Then apply app lock on playstore . The main part starts now , write a random password on a copy don't use letters ,use symbols like @#₹%&?!:, and don't memorize the password ,send your password to a friend and told him to save it and tear the page completely and throw it in the dustbin or burn it . After some days you will realise that you can live without insta. I am preparing for JEE so i use this technique ,I am not completely free and can't control my mind 100% but I won against social media and other useless app and I am trying my best to become a better version of me . Motivation you have it inside ,you care and feel guilt ,want to be a better person , you are worried about your life means you have motivation but one part of our mind is the devil which embrace sadness ,want motivation ,procrastinate, it doesn't want us to grow and become a loser in life . Overthinking is a serious problem , when you will be free from social media ,make sure you don't overthink , just chill and do the think you love.

@elamrani1449

8 ай бұрын

I obviously dont know you in person so take my advice with a grain of salt. I think you should get off of social media. I did that and though it was very hard at first, I eventually got used to it & started to retrain myself into enjoying long form content again & living in the moment. It also made me feel like I had ALLOT more free time. 4 hours on tiktok felt like 20 minutes to me. That way you will not only find it easier to be focused on your goals & dreams (that you mentioned in your comment) but you will also feel like you have more time to just...do stuff. Not only that but its also better for you mentally. You will be more alone with your thoughts, get to know yourself better etc. It also teaches you to face your problems instead of just scroll your feelings away when you get too upset. It takes time to gain hobbies & you will feel very bored at first. It will also take some self control. It does, however pay off in the long run. This is all just my 2 cents though. There is no obligation for you to take it.

@reosaske

8 ай бұрын

delete social medias mate

@anguschristiansen

8 ай бұрын

a lamb has woken up. now you may live, hopefully a little more freely

This is the first time in 8 months I have sat through a video that was longer than 5 minutes and actually been focused on the content. Love the way you articulate your thoughts and walk us through. Instantly subscribed! Can’t wait for more.

I don’t think a video, or even piece of content at large, has sparked this much thought in me. I don’t remember how I found this channel, I was already subscribed when I clicked this one, but it was the first in ages to make me pause my other activity to focus on your words. Thank you for putting this out there!

I still find it crazy how anytime something is talked about in a video on tiktok or on Instagram recorded over from tiktok, they have another video at the bottom of some random gaming content to keep us interested. It really shows what short-form content has done to us. I just hope the latest generation that is growing up on things like Tiktok can still have the ability to research topics and form their own opinions. I don't wanna sound like a boomer, but it honestly worries me. Great content as always though, Olivia, keep it up!

@juliusrivers1670

Жыл бұрын

i agree, those videos annoy me so much 😭

@sarahm1175

Жыл бұрын

Those videos are honestly dystopic

@qwertyasdf4081

Жыл бұрын

As a teenager, I think I can speak on this a bit. While I don’t use tiktok, Instagram, twitter, etcetera (except for KZread and Snapchat for texting, and occasionally Reddit), most of my friends do and they can still think like normal people. Many people are more attracted to short form content but can easily understand long form things that interest them. Although my smarter friends tend to use less social media and seem less likely to jump to conclusions are say things without evidence.

@bratprica6383

Жыл бұрын

Those videos truly feel like your brain is rotting away. I sincerely don't know how some people are fine with it. When I had TikTok, whenever those videos would pop up, I had to put my hand over the ''bonus'' footage just to salvage a bit of my dignity, something I seldom had anyway since I was on TikTok. Needless to say, shit like that was a wake up call to stop consuming any type of short form content, because I always feel like shit when doing it.

@TeamTwiistz

Жыл бұрын

I don't see the issue with that at all. When I play video games on my pc, i have youtube in the background playing. or music playing. This is the same thing those tiktok videos try to emulate and this is valid for kids who don't have $3k gaming pcs

something else to note is that (in my experience) content that i see online almost becomes my perception of my own life. i was watching a video the other day about how people were nostalgic for the early 2010s and what came along with it like the kinds of movies and trends of that time; and it made me sad- but then i remembered that i didn’t even enjoy my life back then that much and wasn’t even aware of any sort of trends or pop culture so I shouldn’t even relate to the content being released. very often people online say things like “i’ve never had an original experience” and it think it’s because we are all amalgamating our lives into one mainstream experience of mass relatability which isn’t accurate to how most of us lived our lives before the explosion of short form content as it is today

@hellokittyscigarette

Жыл бұрын

this is so true, you described the feeling of mass relatability really well

@thekingoffailure9967

Жыл бұрын

Now this is epic! Literally me fr fr

@payt00n

Жыл бұрын

nostalgia content ive always seen as brainwashing mood downers. I used to consume a lot of that content before and it only made my mental health worse before I realized how bad it was to be taking in such harmful content

@sin3358

Жыл бұрын

oh gosh i needed this reminder so badly. i have been feeling rather sad at certain posts that are irrelevant to me all because i am no experiencing that life. it makes me feel jealous of those around me who have those aspects in their life, even if i do not want them. for example, my university colleagues have created a very fun and adventurous friend group together and they behave in the "fun" ways people on tik tok and movies behave. Mind you, i do not like their jokes, or their lifestyle, but i am made to believe that i do due to what i often consume online. it is a real issue

@Francisco-Danconia

Жыл бұрын

@@sin3358 that simply hints that you aren't enjoying your own life. It's a jealousy that comes from watching others have something you want and don't have, even if the way they get those feelings doesn't appeal to you. Our world is sick too death with this problem, and you're in the extreme minority if you don't feel this at some point.

when you mentioned the image being more important than the content itself, that reminded me of when i started listening to kpop and I would solely listen to the song or watch the dance practice before deciding if I'd stan the group or not. I *knew* they sell the looks so I made myself blind to it. Every time.

I had to pause the video and stare at the wall for a second after the metaphor part (4:03) becuase I've never heard media explained like that. "Media is a metaphor for communication, but it's so pervasive in our lives that we often mistake media as the thing that's being communicated", that's one of the most perspective shifting things I've ever heard. Gotta go reevaluate how I've consumed information my entire life now

One thing I feel after watching this video is FEAR , seriously the direction we’re going is scary

@alvinaac365

9 ай бұрын

Glad I’m not the only one… thinking about what might happen in the future worries me…

@tobuscuslover4172

9 ай бұрын

shut up and get on ur phone you loser

@GuinessOriginal

9 ай бұрын

@@alvinaac365I’ve got a few playlists you might “enjoy”, one is called Future, another is called Society, another called Phycology, another Neuroscience, another one on Depression.

@DG4444everrrr

9 ай бұрын

It’s all good! Have a kid and pass this on to them.

@Nairrrrrrr

9 ай бұрын

​@@DG4444everrrrHave a kid with the right one .

This video inspired me to delete both tik tok and Instagram, I want to read more and go back to my hobbies and go outside more for the simplest of things! Thank you for this video.

@ananya100

11 ай бұрын

kudos!

@fridge3489

11 ай бұрын

Well done. Light or no social media is best

@The_Saga

11 ай бұрын

​@@ananya100 the it 😅 knife 🗡️🗡️ Niki i

@hellod7961

11 ай бұрын

I don't have tiktok and I don't use instagram, What I need to stop is youtube shorts 😅

@MickeyMouse-lm6zj

11 ай бұрын

I'm not even old, but I keep telling people the internet has done more bad than good and that life was better without it, it is ruining attention spans, peoples brains, and making people crazy, there's so many terrible takes that are spreading now that wouldn't even be thought of in the past, and a lot of the time people encourage the craziness, and then people think I'm some sort of boomer we are not built for any of this, and it's all so new still, it will only get worse as time goes on, a solution must be done quick

your point about being able to read a book for hours as a kids, only to struggle later in life really resonated with me. The room would go dark as I read Harry Potter when I was 10/11 and now i struggle to get to the 1 hour mark, as a post-grad!!!

This was the best video essay I’ve seen in a long time and it helped me realize alot about society but more especially it helped me realize a lot about myself over the years I’ve became to attached to entertainment that I completely removed anything that didn’t provide that for me, i began to feel like a plant or cattle thank you for opening my eyes

Media can shape our understanding of the world and influence our behavior. It's important to be mindful of the ways in which we consume and interact with media. Great video.

@zthemkfkit6891

Жыл бұрын

why is this from 1 day ago

@terry.1428

Жыл бұрын

@@zthemkfkit6891 bot

@randomnerd3402

Жыл бұрын

​@@zthemkfkit6891 maybe a patreon benefit?

@Dave_of_Mordor

Жыл бұрын

@@zthemkfkit6891 it was probably a patreon video

@miguelconamor6687

Жыл бұрын

Same. YT and IG, that's all I have and it's where I get 99% of my news

this video was rlly enlightening and terrifying. i don’t even know what to do to escape all of this content because my life is practically built around it

@aa90502

Жыл бұрын

true even for news how can we know what really matters or not ? how can we keep ourselves updated on important things without being disturbed by useless information?

@ooooooooooo9656

Жыл бұрын

How much is your life built around it? Uninstalling?

@kanutaro3426

Жыл бұрын

@@ooooooooooo9656 sometimes it manifests in sacrificing important commitments to make more time for the Internet

@wygolvillage2637

Жыл бұрын

A first step I did to "unplug" was remove the Tumblr app (or any social media you suspect you're having unhealthy attachments to) from my phone so I can only use the website when I'm on my computer, which is a desktop, so I can't just go everywhere with constant content idly beamed at me all the time. I assumed at first I would be missing out on pretty much everything but literally nothing changed that dramatically, and I started reading more books since I wasn't constantly distracted by the abyss of infinite-scroll. As a result I'm less likely to pull out my phone in the middle of a social situation to check notifications and likes and whatever, too... It's small but it's been helpful. I'd also recommend getting into "slower" forms of internet communication/expression like creating a personal site on Neocities or joining a forum or something so you're not constantly inundated with notifications and can just focus on yourself and what you enjoy. The most important thing is to make the internet your own- not that of the corporations that run the big social medias.

@jose.montojah

Жыл бұрын

Age of white noise indeed

This genuinely may have been one of the most life changing or at least perspective changing video I've ever seen. I always knew like the basis of what the video is saying but never have had it presented in such an easy to understand and impactful way.

I just launch this video randomly among others, I immediately admired you being authentic, which is so refreshing. Everyone on the internet wants to be "someone", and there you are, just casually taling about interesting topics with good source materials and without flashy things that keeps my attention. Looking forward to watch other stuff you record.

Sometimes I lie on my bed looking at the ceiling and not doing anything. Just thinking and existing i guess. And everytime someone sees me doing that they get so confused and ask me why I'm not doing anything. And they instantly propose a form of entertainment. There's no real "doing nothing" anymore. Doing nothing now means watching a film, videos, playing games or whatever. Instead of, you know, doing nothing... I think this specifically is related to how we feel like we always have to be studying, working, cleaning or doing "productive" things. So doing leisure activities has become "nothing" because working is the default mode, the only was you are really doing something. And doing literally nothing... is not even an option

@kernfel

10 ай бұрын

But... you're not doing literally nothing. You said it yourself, you're thinking. If you want to give it a more concrete name, tell them you're meditating. Many of humanity's greatest minds did it, so why shouldn't you?

@reverie316

10 ай бұрын

​@@kernfelnow go tell that to the average human being😂 they'll still look at you weird

@Natalia-nm5od

10 ай бұрын

Oh I think about this exact thing too… like my family would literally worry if I just decided to take a break and stare at the ceiling… and it would feel very weird too because Im not used to that either… but like the fact that we think like this today is so unnatural

@Alexsheena

10 ай бұрын

I found I used to do a lot more of "nothing" just thinking or sitting outside watching the clouds pass by a lot. Slowly over time I think I forced myself out of doing that because of other people's comments. Particularly the question "so what did you do today?" caused this for me because I often felt like I had little to say if I had spent a lot of that day just thinking and felt put down by people for not having anything interesting to tell them or ashamed I wasn't productive enough. This is something I've only really figured out in the past few months and have started questioning myself about why I feel the need to do certain things. Is it to fill time for someone else's approval, so I don't feel awkward when they ask what I've done or do I genuinely want to do this thing for myself? I totally agree with you that doing nothing has become synonomus with lesiure activities not true nothingness.

@cherrycherrycherrybon-bon2294

10 ай бұрын

i like doing nothing, im usually listening to music but whenever i turn it off i jus curl up and sit there

It’s also jarring to go from concluding a serious discussion to a typical lighthearted KZread outro. I just realized that the shift also distracts from my thoughts lingering and pondering about the topic for myself. It feels like the outro isn’t just a closing for the video, but a closing for the discussion because she’s not being serious anymore (not to be criticism of Olivia). It mirrors the music that would play at the end of the news channels she mentions. I just found that interesting.

@oliSUNvia

Жыл бұрын

very true!

@sinqobilebandile6558

Жыл бұрын

even watching the ad just felt so awkward

@shreyashshrestha6085

Жыл бұрын

@@sinqobilebandile6558 OLIVIAL THE SELLOUT😹😹

@lowoctane

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, my car shut off the moment she began the patreon readout and I began reading your comment 😂

@poppyalt7427

Жыл бұрын

And then the ads after the video ends, it both takes your mind off and makes you try to quickly move to the next thing so you don't have to sit through a bs mobile game..

I find your videos to be the most fascinating and entertaining thing to watch recently...why? Because it feels like you cover all bases, even if it is just briefly. And I'm learning so many things about the world and myself, and how i can apply the things I learn from your videos. Keep doing what you're doing; I'm so glad I came across your channel. ❤

I bumped into this video this morning and I'm excited to explore more of your content. I'm old enough to remember life before the internet and I like to listen to thoughtful content while performing other tasks. I was breaking the bank on audio books so I'm very happy to have encountered you. To me, an intelligent exploration of ideas is not only entertaining but empowers self reflection and, as a result, worldview development. Real personal growth is much better dopamine than a frenetic burst of quick amusement. Both have their place, but please know that your content is as valuable as it is unexpected on a platform such as KZread!

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician

@Warm-hearted-super-boi

5 ай бұрын

Bro was spitting fax 4 centuries before it is needed

@zacsusskind9701

5 ай бұрын

bs

@jamescarr1265

5 ай бұрын

He died so young

@soundhealingbygene

4 ай бұрын

Define problem

@quanleanh6548

4 ай бұрын

Man certainly doesnt cease to exist just because life is meaningless. Are you assuming that the basis for man, or his conciousness's survival stems from meaning. If so then that assumption is worth elaborating. I dont think life itself must have meaning, or even value as the basis. Distracting yourself from the inherent meaninglessness of life to prevent a suicidal ending, is not the only mode of existence isnt it, since another - accepting life as lacking an inherent meaning and embrace it - might be a better alternative mindset

the whole "when people are represented first by their image, and not their work" thing was SO AMAZING WHOA

@vuksavie3305

Жыл бұрын

That's why I put my phone in my pocket

People like you are really valuable. I am so grateful.

I have a long time coming back feeling of sadness / rage caused by the "entertaining = value" phenomenon. It was so strong today morning I was searching randomly for "why entertainment is bad" and thankfully I found this video and your channel. Thank you for your great work. It feels a bit better now especially I feel like you and - as I can see here - a lot of people understand my feelings which is always a healing experience. In fact I have a strong urge to find a way to fight back somehow, as an artist I'll try to inject some of these ideas and conclusions into my work. Now I'll go and watch your other videos as well. Keep it up, bests

I'm at a cottage rn in the middle of nowhere in Lapland and yesterday I was taking a walk in the warm night sun, the snow was shining beautifully and it was so quiet, I could only hear my own steps. Absolute bliss to be with zero distractions. The constant buzz just dissipated at that moment. Like damn nature is so beautiful and relaxing.

@katielowen

Жыл бұрын

If it was absolute bliss, why are you back on KZread then? 😂

@hanac5586

Жыл бұрын

@@katielowen I usually watch a few videos or listen to podcasts before going to sleep, I'm not pass that yet lol 🙇 still, bliss!

@katielowen

Жыл бұрын

@@hanac5586 ah ok! I feel you on that for sure!😂

@erinisom2

Жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing your beautiful experience 🙏🏼

@catradorasprmanager7728

Жыл бұрын

@@katielowen it's unrealistic to cut out social media completely. taking care of yourself and being in nature without any screens is important but it's not bad to be on your electronics as long as you're being mindful of how much time you're actually spending on them.

I deleted Instagram and tiktok off my phone in the past year and oh my gosh it's been incredible to see how much my attention span has increased (and how it compares to my friends who still use these apps). I also feel like I've partially only been able to step away because I'm only working part time and not constantly exhausted, as it requires so much actual willpower to step away from this addictive form of entertainment. When my husband comes home from his three full time jobs he will jump right on his phone for what he calls "brain candy", because he doesn't have the mental energy for anything more involved than short form scrolling, and that's become his main source of entertainment and unwinding. I wonder how much of this is driven by things like inflation, increased pressure to work, increased cost of living, lower wages etc, that drive people into a state of exhaustion where they seek out such content because it's a nice break from the "real world"?

@agentvic1565

Жыл бұрын

Love the questions you ask at the end, makes me think too

@csagouki

Жыл бұрын

Ahhh the wonderful results of late stage capitalism /s

@mrtheluckybucket

Жыл бұрын

Why is he working full time x3 while you get part time x1

@frix3y344

Жыл бұрын

@@mrtheluckybucket Pretty intrusive question to ask, you don’t know their situation.

@WaficYassine

Жыл бұрын

3 full time jobs ? wouldn't 8 hours per working day constitute a full time job conventionally ? so 3*8=24 , he is working 24hrs a day?

This is a brilliant video. You've got a way of delivering your lines in a way that really keeps the viewer hooked and take, in the spirit of the content, a long-term perspective on a very contemporary phenomenon. Your self-awareness was just the cherry on top.

I've never seen you on KZread before but you just put a bunch of things I think about but never really had many people who question things like that to talk or interact with but all in a video . I enjoy your content it's not boring it just has real knowledge plus your storytelling is awesome and not just shit being said just because. Your video actually left me thinking and I appreciate that so thank you and keep being you!

I love video essays, they are literally all I watch on KZread these days. This was kind of scary in a way, feel like we are losing ourselves to phones :D

@taraswick3586

Жыл бұрын

yeah. me too. sometimes I still wonder to myself if it helps to take all this information in long form. am I just going to let it slip away when I close this tab? or has the deeper look at history and outlined information given me something to mentally chew on? is there a seed planted in us now that will grow and encourage us to find and act on solutions, even on the individual scale?

@pablobear4241

Жыл бұрын

517 similarry

@bewater6684

Жыл бұрын

@@taraswick3586 i worry the same

@crazymadstriker766

Жыл бұрын

@@taraswick3586 That's why I don't like to overload when it comes to video essays, and I honestly don't think i'd watch various channels about it

I just binged a whole manga series (11 books) without thinking of anything else, after thinking of what I read for a minute it really gave me some peace I was looking for. Just after I started watching this video in its entirety with my full attention. It’s a great feeling, to be able to just enjoy 1 thing and just that one thing in its entirety. Our focus sucks, we need to enjoy things more deeply

@ryanvaughn3121

Жыл бұрын

What's the series drop it.

@IGuessVince

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanvaughn3121 it was just masamune-kuns revenge, nothing special, but I liked it, and read it all in one go 😅

@aronvillaluna548

Жыл бұрын

i think what you saying is something correlated on what they call "flow state" in psychology

@jameztheartist3893

Жыл бұрын

Stretch

@rokkudayo

Жыл бұрын

@@IGuessVince I remember watching the anime for that years ago, it's a fun watch. Reminds me that there'll be a sequel coming up this year.

I appreciate how you reflect on whether and how the visual aspects of a video essay affect the audiences’ comprehension of the content and their concept of learning. I’ve just started to watch video essays on KZread, and as thought provoking and critical as many of them are, I still feel like information is being thrown at me at an incredible speed and demands multitasking. Speech is almost always faster than my reading speed, so my brain not only needs to process the spoken message, but also pairing it with the visuals on screen (external footages, images etc.) Video essays are never the same as reading a book at your own pace, which means your only sensory input is the words on the pages. But I guess this is already a middle ground given how print has fallen out of favor and how we get information from fragments on social media. Great work! Your video essays give me hope for what Humanities and Social Sciences can do splendidly in such a technocentric world.

I dont think youre boring at all i actually find your videos very interesting and love hearing your opinion on things! Literally every single time i watch ur videos i go and tell my friends about it and give them like a 10-20 minute summary and how i and them feel on the topic and its a great conversation topic!

I think this is a contributing factor of why life feels so different than when I was a kid. Of course, the world always changes, but the fundamental feeling of living should stay the same. I used to actually feel rooted in the world, I don't know how to explain it. I remember far more of my childhood than I do my teenage years. And now I barely remember what I did in the morning. I've been trying to cut off social media, but a lot of my friends and family communicate on there so I have to have it around. I've deleted it off of my phone, now, and can only access it through a browser. I think that's a step in the right direction.

@ahmaquindi

11 ай бұрын

Hey @meriiky, you've put into words something I have been feeling for a long time. Feeling 'rooted' in the world, remembering things... I fill like my life is passing by and I don't remember anything. Thank you.

@Chris_978

11 ай бұрын

@@ahmaquindi this is how I exactly feel and reasons why I been so nostalgic.

@jmass4207

10 ай бұрын

There’s no reason to think you should feel the same as an adult as you did as a kid. It’s a universal experience that time seems to speed up as you age. Every year is more and more insignificant against your body of experience. Your interests and concerns grow to the point where every individual one, and every individual attempt to address one, becomes less salient. But what you’re going through sounds a little different based off limited information. You shouldn’t forget your morning on the same day, if you’re being literal about that. Many people benefit from attempts to be more mindful and address things like brain fog and just taking care of health in general. Your brain is your mind afterall.

@aditrig1250

10 ай бұрын

wow are you me

@deadofwintr

10 ай бұрын

@@jmass4207 This is true but the feeling of being more attached to the world has gone away. It almost feels like were more in other peoples worlds online learning all this irrelevant information whilst not staying in our own world. Being more rooted probably comes from spending all your time actually living your own life and not feeding your brain the lives of others that you won't remember in 2 days time.

I have to say, Olivia, that segue to introduce the book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman written in 1985 with a foreword written by his son Andrew Postman was truly perfect.

@Wisdawms

Жыл бұрын

You've just taught me that that's how you spell segue.

This is good. Listening to a person talk about a paradigm is always exciting for me. It feels like a whiff of cold air that shakes me up from my slumber. Whenever someone makes things taken for granted explicit again and puts them on the table for everyone to see and play with them I start feeling engaged. This rarely happens to me when consuming video or audio. Like you said, I feel more like it gives me a push to go do some work than actually having done work. Reading allows me to ruminate much more easily. I enjoyed your video essay but I really would enjoy reading something of yours.

im very thankful ive withdrew from a lot of mainstream social media sometime in the mid 2010s because i was starting to feel the negative effects of it on my mental health. Its only gotten worse for a lot of people, I hope that anyone reading this remembers to take time to themselves in the real world, it’s hard at first but so worth it to break out of the cycle

this is exactly why I like to study philosophy, sociology, and creative writing.

@astralpainss

5 ай бұрын

what books on those subjects are your favorite?

@cheesecake7274

4 ай бұрын

I would recommend to supplement philosophy and sociology with ethnographies by cultural anthropologists. Gives a different perspective.

@ZESTIESTBESTIESLAY

4 ай бұрын

I LOVE SOCIOLOGY 🤩

@i2keepitrealInreseach

4 ай бұрын

Waste of time... Should have studied science instead...

@i2keepitrealInreseach

4 ай бұрын

​@@ZESTIESTBESTIESLAY Sociology doesn't explain anything....

As a teacher, our attention spans are definitely much more limited as I've gotten older and taught more years. But I think it's important that we learn to train ourselves, and others, to be able to have focus when necessary, but also to allow ourselves to be jelly brained when needed as well. Constantly reading, learning and processing, is a huge mental task, so we do still need the ability to step away when needed. But that's just my two-cents~

@based4indian2commie0slut69

Жыл бұрын

exactly, people always act like we HAVE to be productive ALL the time. No, that's not how humans work. If you're taking a break from social media, go out just touching grass and or just sit in your porch doing or thinking nothing. Just exist sometimes. If you have a healthy relationship with the internet, then go watch your favourite youtuber. You don't have to be constantly be productive.

@majoralter

Жыл бұрын

@@based4indian2commie0slut69 It's not about being PRODUCTIVE all the time. It's over-consumption of short form content that's the issue, there are other ways to let loose outside of the internet like you said.

@mrknarf4438

Жыл бұрын

I think the problem is that mindlessly consuming is not resting: it's a tiring activity. Spend the whole day watching TV, or KZread, or TikToks, and your mind won't be rested: it will have slowly grown tired. It's so important to be able to disengage from those and learn to let that "jelly brain" state take over: going for a walk, staring at the wall, getting bored and letting the mind truly rest, recovering for a while with no new interesting input to process.

@Francisco-Danconia

Жыл бұрын

You are correct, but the problem is we live in an addicted society with enabling nodes literally everywhere. It would be unethical to tell an alcoholic that we all need a drink from time to time. People have to have healthy relationships with themselves first to conquer addiction. People who are addicted to screens should not use video games and other addictive electronics for their jelly Brain moments in my opinion

@lucyandecember2843

Жыл бұрын

​@@mrknarf4438 i mean, what constitutes your brain tiering out? If im lost in thought or day dreaming im still doing something, im still activly engaged which can be tiering, no?

I love that you brought up catching fire it’s like such a good movie and specifically that one too it’s def the best 😭😭

this is the first time i encounter your channel, i love the way you inform your ideas and educate me. i really reflect about what was said. in fact, i live in the Dominican Republic, and here is the same, people don't think or take their civil duties seriously because they're driven by entertainment.

this gave me answers in a weird way. i was upset before watching this because i was mean to someone on accident earlier this day. i apologized- or i tried to, but i still felt very bad for upsetting someone especially since they already seemed upset for other reasons. i pride myself on watching my acctions well and making sure of how i affect others around me and i felt like i had failed in doing so. i was supressing my emotions by filling up my head with mindless entertainment. scrolling, watching tv, and then youtube when i stumbled across this video. the part at 16:00 really hit me. i relized i shouldnt just be consuming content trying to push my feelings away when what i should be doing is sitting with them and really reflecting on myself and my actions. after i comment this im going to close this video and take a shower maybe make some food with no media and just think and understand my actions and feelings. so thank you for making this video. i know this is a really long boring comment that nobody will care about but im doing it more for myself. its theraputic to write something and know that someone could read it even if no one does. ok thats it bye.

@SnehaR1309

10 ай бұрын

I‘m proud of you for self-reflecting like this! Wish more people were capable of doing that 🫠

@ManiGupta49

10 ай бұрын

I agree with you that we are becoming mindless, reckless, people who want entertainment with constant scrolling and that really fills our minds with basically nothing. Self-reflection seems boring and some people really avoid being alone and acknowledge their actions, thoughts and feelings. I belong to a land where meditation (Dhyana) came from and I struggle with sitting quietly and focusing my mind. But i believe once we realize what we are doing, we can take a step to better ourselves. Good luck with you!

@paul_particularlyunhappynut

10 ай бұрын

Was the phone related to you accidentally offending this person? what happened

@ClarissaCloud

10 ай бұрын

Nah, you made a good point, hope you Aren't stressing out about what happened with that person, have a good day :)❤

@cuegert9895

9 ай бұрын

Cool

With all these concepts in mind, it’s even more impressive to me that video essayists can create engaging, thought provoking content like this while having to confront all these distractions. And normal life too. It speaks to work ethic and a drive to get ideas out there that’s really inspirational. Great video

@user-ou7lb3ne3g

Жыл бұрын

tho if we look at their videos close enough, we can find the same distracting crap. I miss mr Freeman, who was just a cartoon, but didnt insert any external images, videos etc...

@alexspace9878

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ou7lb3ne3g they acknowledge their place in this distracting world at least. There’s an admirability in calling out the system while admitting fault within it to a certain degree which played well for me. Everyone has room to grow and I’m glad this video was made to speak to a feeling I’m sure millions have in the modern day.

@daniyah5613

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ou7lb3ne3g aaannnddd there's the nostalgia we all know and love 🥰

Thankyu so much for speaking up about this topic. I was starting to think that I am an adult trapped in a teenage body, cause no one around me sees spending more than 5h on the phone as a problem and I was getting worried. I hope more people listen to you. P.d. I really enjoyed your content for what you were saying. Thanks again 🥰

i just want to tell you thank you for making this video.. i’m doing a paper for my english class about misinformation in social media and how it’s negatively affecting our society as a whole. it’s something i feel passionately about but it’s been difficult to articulate my ideas.. so thank you. everything you said in this video is exactly what i’ve been trying to say myself. i put some of your ideas in my essay and it really tied it together as a whole. please don’t stop making these videos, i’m sure there’s hundreds of teens like me that are relying on you to vocalize what we’ve been feeling

Practicing reading books has helped my attention span. When I was maybe 18 or 19 (I'm 20 now), I finally learned to consistently read books without skipping around a lot. I can actually read novels again now albeit slowly and inconsistently. It feels GREAT to be able to focus on them without jumping ahead.

@fjebdbdjzndjd5026

Жыл бұрын

How did you learn? (For a friend)

@lucilleballs2291

Жыл бұрын

@@fjebdbdjzndjd5026 first I got a lamp next to my bed that I could turn on to read at bedtime, then I left my phone on my desk so it couldn't distract me from reading :) made sure to find some books I was interested in, too! Reading some novels rn 👍 Good luck fellow reader

@fjebdbdjzndjd5026

Жыл бұрын

@@lucilleballs2291 thank you 😊

@lucilleballs2291

Жыл бұрын

@@fjebdbdjzndjd5026 you're welcome!! 💕

@Pleebian94

Жыл бұрын

Same. I just time my reading sessions to 20 to 30 mins a day.

Amusing ourselves to death is a great read. I read it the summer of sophomore year of highschool, and it completely changed the way I consumed media and approached different forms of it.

@dklee.01

Жыл бұрын

ooooooooo now i need to read it

@giggetgnomed6231

Жыл бұрын

There’s so many books id love to read but (and I’m embarrassed to call it this) mere words can’t hold my attention. It’s not that I’m not interested, or don’t like the book. I just can’t sit and read in one sitting. But I also have adhd so I have trouble staying focused on anything😭😭🙏

I often only listen to your videos, unless it seems like a topic where the image would be useful to my understanding. I really value your thoughts on stuff, and usually go into deep dives or journal after a video. I hope you feel accomplished for the work youre doing

Fantastic video! You have especially touched me with pointing out how media and news outlets have been transformed into comedy skits through lack of emotion on journalists, emphasis on quirky jokes and chemistry, and absurdity of advertisements placed in between programmes - it made me realise how important ad blocking extensions are to distance yourself from similar forms of defusing media and content, and how virulent actions taken against ad blockers, like in case of Manifest V3, can be for our attention span.

Girl, CONTINUE DOING WHAT YOUR DOING. WE NEED YOU. You put in concrete words what i think all the time and can't explain to my family correctly.

@AngelGG113

10 ай бұрын

you should take your time to write down about this kinda topics, maybe one day you could also make youtube videos. (: we need more people talking about this problems in our society

@sorenjunkers3834

10 ай бұрын

did you not learn that in school? sad

@Musikmaker658

10 ай бұрын

@@sorenjunkers3834did you not have anything better to say? Get a life.

@fatitankeris6327

10 ай бұрын

*you're. Just like in "I'm" for "I am" , the abbreviation stands for "you are". "Your" is a possessive pronoun, like "my/mine".

This video is important. My wife and I are 20wks into pregnancy and I'm terribly concerned about how this world will treat the new, impressionable brain they'll have.

@kewlman5417

8 ай бұрын

while the internet can give advice, you should be the one to make the decisions. hell, you should even take this with a grain of salt...

@Ellalovesellaa

7 ай бұрын

Look up sneako meets kid fans it’s bad

@REJECTFALSEICONZ

7 ай бұрын

Dear sir/ma'am, I don't know you, but I'm a 14 year old kid who didn't have ANY internet access until I was 12. Everything was good then- I had motivation, top of my school, and, well, functioned like you would expect a kid to. As soon as I fell down the internet rabbit hole everything kinda went to shit. Requesting you to not give your child any internet exposure until they're at least 15 or so.

@reshmyranjith1930

7 ай бұрын

Hey. I’m a kid myself, 13 years of age. I’ve been introduced to technology as little as 4 years old, I wasn’t addicted much but Corona really hit me hard and I started to slack in school. With this upcoming generation it’s impossible to avoid technology, but please, limit it as much as you can.

@otherkamelliabuddy

6 ай бұрын

tbh i have to say the same thing as two other people said - the internet isn't just dangerous because of strangers and mysterious files but digesting that much global information and literature and everything here as a child affects you, in some strange way. it's like you grow up faster and learn quicker but you don't really go back down to pace after that.

so glad i found your channel , its so educational and enlighting . Which is really rare these days

Honestly this is the first tume i saw one of your videos, and i LOVEDD this one, it explains everything with such a casuall tone but every detail is in there!, you have talent for videos, i hope your channel blows up, cause WOW ❤

To all the zoomers out there: You don't know this, but there was a time when ads on the Internet were borderline inexistant. Ads were a billboard sign you could ignore, a newspaper page you'd quickly turn, or a TV commercial break you'd use to go pee or grab a snack. But the omipresence of ads on the internet, in apps, on social media, etc is *absurd* The platform you're on became accessory to the ads they push you, not the other way around. I can't stress this enough: put down your phones, get adblocks, be more critical of the content you watch, and overall don't abdicate to becoming stupid coomsumer. The internet wasn't supposed to be this way. It was hijacked by corporations, pure and simple. Together, we can be smarter and do better.

@bumblebeegamerreal

10 ай бұрын

I could not agree more. (Also dont forget to use Sponsorblock). KZread thinks that Adblock = Piracy, when in reality, KZread is just pirating people's time, especially with their double ads, triple ads, and 10 ads. You could argue about KZread premium, but this is an internetwide issue and not just something in a platform These internet ads are honestly too stimulating and dangerous. I do not understand why people are okay with it. Why are they okay with getting random garbage shoved in their face in the middle of a serious video? Its honestly nice having commercials in entertainment channels instead of having ads getting shoved in peoples faces. These commercials act like white space in printed media. I hope people can realize just how impractical ads really are, and how much irreputable damage they cause.

@jayboy2kay7

8 ай бұрын

I know man, the wild west internet of 1998-2010 was the greatest. After that, everything went corporate, and has went violently downhill from there.

this topic concerns me so much, yet i still can't help consuming much more audiovisual content than written content... thank you so much for this video, it was great

@rarathenoisy1ion

7 ай бұрын

Honestly, start small! A page a day, then two pages and do on!

@elcuhhh2140

5 ай бұрын

It’s an addiction

Genuinely some of the most thought provoking content I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you for being you!

i can’t get over this video girl i love the way you put things and need to subscribe

this has actually been on my mind for the past few months, and it's so uplifting to see it being seriously discussed in online spheres, as well as among personal friends in my own life. i've deleted a few of my social media apps, but its disheartening to see how widespread the issue is

I've really missed people going deep into topics on youtube. Thank you for this.

This was, without a shadow of a doubt, some of the most informative, and head-leveled content I have seen in recent time. Bravo

Great video. My dad was literally talking to me about how disappointed he was with me because with all the books we have in our house, me and my brother don't ever read any of them. And I think you explain very well why that might be. We are so used to consuming information via media that we have forgotten the beauty of reading, evaluating and taking time to interpret the information we have read.

@crisvis8905

Жыл бұрын

@KC Very strange. Statistics show younger people are buying more books than genXers and boomers. Are you all possibly buying but not reading them?

@payt00n

Жыл бұрын

​@@crisvis8905 unfortunately this is probably more to trends and video hype making people online (especially tiktok) convining gen z'rs to but things like Colleen hoover books

@Francisco-Danconia

Жыл бұрын

@@crisvis8905 I think this might be happening because there's this subconscious reward in the brain that you get from buying a book, whether you read it or not. I think It's the same reason people buy videogames and take years to get to playing them. You get a hit of dopamine just imagining the fun you will have (eventually) with your game. Humans like to collect things, and everyone looks smarter with a filled bookshelf 🤣

@lucyandecember2843

Жыл бұрын

o.o

@nok4799

Жыл бұрын

​@@crisvis8905 I'ma be real with you, it's probably just tiktokers buying books to use as backgrounds in their bookshelf (that they never read) to seem interesting

I recently read "Brave New World", the book you mentioned at the beginning of the video, for school, and it was like a punch in the face to hear you speak about it and actually making me understand what I had just read. Somehow, with the whole entertainment circus we find ourselves in, I got through over 300 pages of serious political fears and didn't even realize how relevant all of it was. This video hit me so hard, what you said was literally under my eyes and I didn't even notice.

@Onionbaron

8 ай бұрын

Go ahead with Postman, if you are unsure get a sample of Postman in the pdf. Bullshit and the art of crap detecting! :)

@sabrinanaser9327

8 ай бұрын

read manufacturing consent by noam chomsky!

@Onionbaron

8 ай бұрын

@@sabrinanaser9327 Great book, read it a decade ago! Chomsky, Pilger, Klein, Postman etc.. Just read, read read!

@kenzaettayebi4132

8 ай бұрын

as someone who read this in school seven years ago, it was still a slap in the face!

@Iodestarr

8 ай бұрын

Take time to digest what you read. Actually sit and ponder, be it mid chapter or even mid sentance. It feels like a chore at first, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Now, a good question is whether that is because it is a skill you have to train or a process of de habituating another, say like the lack of attention span from modern media. With the mind less cluttered by useless rabble, not only do we have room to think, but we actually want to!

Personally, I am not bored when a video has little to no visual assistance. It is rather a pleasant voice with right intonation at the right moment that makes a video enjoyable to watch and hear. Another point is a good structure where I am not confused about what happens, but where I can feel where it is going while building up to that moment.

Got this video randomly connected and got so interested, i got listen to your perspective of this for another 30 or 90 mins hahah, i think in the end it boils down to a person their interest and how easy they could let information just be as one says it is

I think shorter attention spans might also explain the plethora of “glitch in the matrix” stories, lately. Some are pretty creepy! But I feel like most of the stories go along the lines of “I could’ve sworn I left my mug in the dishwasher… Must be a glitch in the matrix!”

@shhuu7676

Жыл бұрын

of course!! what!! I never thought of that. Makes sense, we're consuming so much so quickly that we can't keep up so that the glitch in the matrix is simply created by us..

@Suzume-Shimmer

Жыл бұрын

So basically, lack of focus is projected outward and seen as a problem with the world , when its really the self.

@kongking6860

Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad I read this comment, I’ve ready a fair few glitch in the matrix stories, and tbh for me they’re great as a fiction horror genre short stories as I enjoy that, all these stories are created, shaped and interpreted in one’s mind, and our mind is known to produce the greatest horror stories, even better than real life ones, our imagination is a gift, and when you’re not focusing on something it becomes blurry literally and even figuratively, so when you try to remember it later, it’s just a jumble of memories that you try to piece together and it ends up being like mixing up 2 incomplete puzzles and trying to piece one whole picture from it, which will just be a jumbled mess, but it’ll make for an interesting picture, and in other words makes for a fun story to read :^)

@normanofthetempest7347

Жыл бұрын

Glitch in the matrix. "Oh I just dissociated thats all" - me.

@wackoterp7026

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a mental problem

This video couldn't have been recommended to me at a better time. I've been getting frustrated with how much my screen time has increased from consuming content that I genuinely don't care about or even remember to kill time, procrastinate other tasks, or just so I don't have to sit in silence with my thoughts. The part about having the screen split with subway surfers or other visual stimulation especially resonated with me because even when doing everyday tasks I feel like I have to have some video, podcast, or other content to distract myself from the monotony of doing dishes. Anyways, this video was the push I needed to set app timers and restrictions on digital wellbeing to try to be more mindful of how I spend my time in a day. I'm gonna go outside, sit in silence, and touch some grass.

@addictedtoRS

Жыл бұрын

If you really want to give it a shot, slowly start removing your apps, one by one. Even the ones you use daily. It's hard at first and you'll want to redownload them since it's so simple, but if you don't and actually give it some time, you'll find you are never looking at your phone anymore as you have no reason to and it starts to feel really good on all of the senses.

@Pugetwitch

Жыл бұрын

Do you have PTSD or neurodivergency? I have the same issue but I assumed mine was due to the complex PTSD that I developed during the course of an abusive relationship that went on for over a decade, and then I had to live alone for the first time after never living alone before in my life. So being here in silence was really difficult, especially since I lost my career, I lost my entire family, and I lost almost all of my friends. Three of my best friends died.

Girl you did such a good video, you woke up in me more awareness

I Watch a lot of vidéo essays, and to be entirely honest this is one of the best I’ve watched. You got to the point of an important issue using quotes, videos, articles, and your own experience. The timing was well done, and the separated parts helped to keep it on track. Also some people said it was boring, but truly this was one of the funniest video essays I’ve found that wasn’t over crowded with jokes. Keep up the amazing work, this was just lovely!! :]

@mihramos13

24 күн бұрын

Can you pls tell me other video essays or essayist you watch as well?