Yes, It's Really That Bad
I've been a consistent YouTube viewer since about 2009 or so. During my working years, I mostly worked from home and had a job that didn't really require hardly any brain power. YouTube provided a distraction during my working hours that kind of kept me from losing my mind from sheer boredom. I still was dying of boredom all day long, but YouTube did as good of a job as it could to provide a distraction. YouTube is a natural fit as in my childhood years all I really did was zone out in front of the TV for hours upon hours. Cable had become a thing in the mid-80's and I consumed as much of it as I could. Watching TV and eating wasn't my favorite pastime, it was my only pastime. I had to go to school and do as little homework as possible in order to be able to watch TV without interference from those who simply relegated parenting to the boob tube. So YouTube has become the new cable TV. And it's much more appealing than cable as ad blockers remove irritating commerci