Have you ever fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole on YouTube, TikTok, etc.?

I would like more information about your experiences on the Interwebs. Strange things happen on the net.

Not really. I have very low opinion of social media, so I've always avoided them. Never even stepped one foot into Facebook or Tiktok, and only go to Twitter to search for specific things. I don't have an account with any of them. I do have a Reddit account, but only to keep track of a total of 8 subs. About the edgiest one of those eight is r/SubredditDrama.

Same with YouTube. I always know exactly what I'm interested in, what I like, and what I'm looking for, and while I might dabble a bit, it takes several months of trial period to decide whether a new channel will go on my subs list. I also have my own internal "laugh and ignore" button, but nevertheless I still always trim my Watch History page of things I'm only dabbling in, so the algorithms don't go crazy with the recommendations.

As a result, in all my years of using YouTube, I have only ever blocked one channel wholesale (The Quartering), and only because of the volume of content, not the content themselves. His videos were threatening to declare a sovereign state on my Recommended page.

Maybe on YouTube.

I avoid tik tok because of its totalitarian origin.

Youtube from time to time. It could be videos of a variety of subjects: Conan O'Brien, animals, Japan, kpop. The list goes on.

The only social media platforms I have accounts on are Facebook and Instagram but I never post anything. Just browse my quite small feed for like a minute.

Very based. Total grifter. Should boot him off it.

Watch a lot of crime stuff on Youtube. The problem have with TV, particularly American, they over-dramatize stuff and try to turn it into a movie. Violins banging, cinematic camera work, can't just explain the events now, it's got to be an emotional roller-coaster with narrative, really not just "crime stuff", but documentaries in general now.

Youtube channels (the good ones) tend to be devoid of that. Typically, explaining what's happening with accompanying footage.

So yea, typically when watch them, it links to another, and another, and another. And so forth, wind up subscribing to morbid stuff.

Think JCS - Criminal Psychology is probably the best on the platform and for bite sized content on a regular basis That Chapter is pretty good.

Usually youtube.

Right now I am in a med-program rabbit hole on top of a math and physics rabbit hole. I feel like the rabbit holes I'd find as a kid were creepy and somewhat interesting but I think I've seen so much of that already that I just choose to not entertain it these days because of how it makes me feel. It really can change your perception of the world in an unrealistic way, for better or worse.

no.

1 person i did watch on yt...

went off the rail. i stop watching him. he also now in trouble with the law.

I'm embarrassed to admit this but I went down the whole Mandela Effect rabbit hole years ago I can see how easy it is for people to fall for it human memories are shit and it's easy for them to get distorted.

False memories have been known for awhile in psychology and that conspiracy theory is evidence that it exists. You can implement false memories into people by suggesting it. A doctored old photo could be used by placing an object that did not exist in their memories and they could create a whole story about that particular object without it never being part of their childhood. It's spooky.

No. I do watch a lot of YouTube, though.

YT all the time.

last one was learning about a tribe in brasil that has adolescent boys wear bullet ant gloves as a rite of passage.

these folks ain't fucking around

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of watching storm chasing videos in the past.