[OwlsParlay]

AS someone who watches a lot of YouTube, like the Let's Play content mentioned, I recognise and sympathise with the OP. But I think the problem isn't necessarily YouTube - thats just the drug of choice. It could be Twitch, it could be podcasts, or television, or any other form of entertainment offering a parasocial relationship. One that fill the gaping lonely hole in so many people's lives.

[toyg]

Yeah but television doesn't give you the choice that YT provides. If it's 2am and all available tv programs are shit, you go to bed. With YT, there is always a decent video a search away.

(This obviously changed with streaming sites - but that's tv turning into YT rather than traditional broadcasting)

[411111111111111]

That's true for online media in general, it's not specific to YouTube

[remify]

YouTube is definitely trying to make you watch the absolute most they can.