@noelle honestly same
this isn't coming from a place of neoliberalist productivity worship but from a place of brains don't turn off and if you don't give them meaningful tasks they explode
@witchfynder_finder anyway more to your point it's impossible to draw conclusions from that kind of data because you are very much not an average youtube watcher for other reasons
@witchfynder_finder from a creator perspective i think the question is whether you want randos or fans
the people who click on those videos are the epitome of randos, looking for ways to waste their time, of which there are a lot on youtube
it's an active detriment to branding or building an active fanbase though
@noelle this is also where signing letters with XX comes from!! people would kiss the X as a sign of a sworn oath, so it came to mean kisses
it's XOXO in the US possibly by jewish influence
@aescling like for real kids are really good at taking random shit and slamming it together and getting something new but oftentimes that isn't actually … a good way of thinking about a problem
@aescling there's more to thinking than inspiration
a lot of thinking is just familiarity with good processing algorithms
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