The internet. You’re using it, and you’ve been using it for an absurd amount of time today you pig. Scrolling through slop on Tiktok or Youtube or some other ████. You know what you are. I know what you are. And that’s why I’ve decided to become better than the rest of you plebs.

Anyways, my Youtube addiction has been slowly eating away at my life ever since I was a little itty bitty ipad baby. And I just had one of those moments at a late hour of the night where you decide to change your life for the better and go full monk-mode for the rest of your life – tomorrow, of course. EXCEPT THERE WON’T BE A TOMORROW FOR ME, SINCE LIFE IS FINITE AND I’M NOT GONNA WASTE IT. So I’m going to ban Youtube from my computer forever. I will never watch it ever again unless I want to upload something to my completely dead channel for some reason. And I’ll accomplish this with an extension that bans that called StayFocused. I’ll use this to completely annihilate both the chrome extensions page so that I can’t uninstall it, and require a challenge to change the settings. And that’s it.

One of my main muses for making this change was my beloved cousin. He gets ridiculous amounts of screentime, and is texting billions of people at any given moment. He does get out more than me, a good chunk of that time is not in the moment. Whenever we do anything there are always periods where he is just completely gone. Of course he’s self aware of it all, but he can’t be brought to give up the 100 people on Snap Chat that’s he’s never even met in real life. Poor guy gets at least 600 notifications a day.

My other wake up call came from yesterday. I’m not much of a car guy, but I was talking to my brother about some stuff on parts and stuff, while in a car. The car in question is a new car from the year of our lord 2020. And it had that fancy little console that distracts you from driving. There was also a phone plugged into it. Time warp through the fifth dimension to earlier today, I get a video on my Youtube homepage about how a clutch mechanism works. I have never in my life searched up anything about cars on that account or any account for that matter. And even more, the thing that I was particularly talking about was a clutch mechanism. I used to make use of a Google smart speaker, which at this point probably has my entire vocal profile mapped out, that can probably be connected to my other accounts. Even though this is not 100% likely, it’s still scary. My Mother has talked about occurrences where she has left her phone on while talking about something, and then getting an add for that exact thing a minute later, despite never searching for it. This technological prison has turned completely predatory, and I’m disgusted by it.

The final piece here is was another video I saw today about slop content. Some good perspective in there about some of the stuff I watch for ‘background noise’. Speaking of background noise, that’s how *they* get you! When you have something on while doing another task, you’re not really thinking about it or questioning it; it just seeps into your subconscious. Now this can easily be used to completely change someone’s worldview whether with opinions and biases that seep into whatever generic content is being listened to, or even better, if you’re just watching something explicitly political. It’s just completely soul crushing that in our day, you can just fill your brain with so much noise and go about your shitty life like a mindless drone. Whenever I read a manuscript bequeathed from 300 years past or additional to that, I lampoon to myself on how far eloquence has gone awayward. In the utmost gravity, the scripts I read are of: the same tone and flair; a few narrowly defined archetypes.

The Beginning. — Nov 28th, 2024

The extension I was using to limit my screen-time broke, and I have returned to being a plebeian like the rest of you. I guess there is a lesson in here about how we will abandon our drive when the easy way out rears its head again.

This last month back on the internet has been busy. After I ‘quit’ the internet, I still relapsed a lot, but I do find myself using the computer for much more productive things. These last few day’s I’ve been filming, editing, and doing VFX for a new video. This one will actually be higher quality than the last one I put out a week prior to writing this.

Here’s to more of the internet and its ever lasting bounty of entertainment that human minds are definitely not made to handle or comprehend in any capacity, but I guess you could just say that about life in general.

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