Saturn726

I'm making this post now to announce that I will be participating in the YouTube boycott starting on 8/13/2025. I would also like to make this post to make one thing very clear:


I've been on this platform ever since I can remember.
I would be lying if I said that YouTube wasn't like a parental figure to me.
I would be lying if I said that YouTube wasn't an easy way to learn a wide variety of topics, and has enlightened me on many of those topics.
I would be lying if I said that YouTube didn't help shape who I am as a whole. As a person.

I would also be lying if I said that I didn't know what it felt like to see old friends turn sour.

I'll save my rants on how "old YouTube good new YouTube bad", because that's been done to death. But I will say one thing:

I've swapped browsers, I've downloaded addons, all in an attempt to continue enjoying this platform for what it is, but I just can't do it anymore. This new ID verification is the final straw for me. Until this gets removed, I will not be using YouTube for the foreseeable future.

Additionally, I would like to thank Brody Foxx of all people for highlighting the initial comment I'd made on penguinz0's video on the topic, called "It's Hitting YouTube Now", which gathered a total of (at least) 126,000 accumulated likes. The fact that so many people are in support of my comment, even if it's making light of a genuinely serious situation, means the world to me. I cannot thank each and every one of you enough.


Finally, I'd like to end my post with this:

I will not run out of things to do.

YouTube: A multi-billion dollar website that prioritizes your eyeballs being glued to the screen with a majority of its videos relying on multiple sound effects, fast transitions, horrendous AI, sponsorships, un-skippable advertisements, excitable false personas that lure you in like a siren's song, and complete control over its entire userbase.

All of that to say that YouTube is a single item. A single, dominating item. With pieces and parts that puts the world to shame, yet can be as easily discarded as throwing out the trash. Funny how irony can work.

I will still exist on the internet, I'll just be occupying my time with something better.

Something more tolerable.
Something less hypnotizing.
Something less agonizing.
Something more creative.
Something that I can put effort towards and be rewarded fairly.
Something more *fun*.

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