Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow

Post by ChoGGi » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #21

flohofwoe wrote: post #19

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is there a difference between youtube premium and youtube-with-adblocking?

It's harder to block ads on mobile. That's why I pay.

Post by Henchman21 » Thu, Apr 02, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

TheRoque wrote: post #18

Youtube is also pretty boring though. I mean, there are ton of interesting content and quality content too, but the stuff that gets recommended, the "hype stuff" is full of false information, clickbait, tweaked reality to conform some narrative...

Post by ModernMech » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

tim333 wrote: post #124

ModernMech wrote: post #90

I noticed this about my Dad, he's 66. Growing up he was always in front of the TV watching whatever show was on. Today he's never there, now he's always in front of his iPad watching YouTube, watching videos of tractors excavating things.

There's something quite therapeutic about that stuff. I spend a while watching Cutting Edge Engineering fixing bits off bulldozers and the like.

Post by eru » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC

butlike wrote: post #102

twobitshifter wrote: post #66

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YouTube music, higher quality video, and the ‘jump ahead’ feature to skip portions of a video that others usually skip.

You can do this manually on the free plan. Mouse over the playhead and you'll see a graph. You can click the highest point in the graph which is where most people clicked through to.

Post by dominotw » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

eru wrote: post #127

butlike wrote: post #102

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You can do this manually on the free plan. Mouse over the playhead and you'll see a graph. You can click the highest point in the graph which is where most people clicked through to.

Sure, but it's more annoying.