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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
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I am disagreeing with the video, not you. I agree advertising is dehumanizing and such. My concern is just... I didn't watch the video, because I really don't want to subject myself to another thing basically telling me I'm a moral failure, but I do not like the Vibe of victim blaming takes like that have. I was referring to the video and not you with my previous reply, I have no beef with anything you said
Edit: for all I know the video could include none of that, I probably should have just ignored this post instead of commenting and stuff
I understand what you're saying here but
I mean? I guess I do the same thing? But I really really do not view it that way. It's more like distracting myself with things I know are safe and happiness inducing. I try to avoid advertisements and social media, I just focus on interacting with actual friends and doing normal fun activities.
I really, really don't want to watch the second half of a video explain to me how I need to change my lifestyle and self-flagellate. I've come to realize there are external reasons I have the habits I do and no matter how much I'm worried I'm hurting myself by being a computer nerd or being a furry I'll always fall back on these things as long as they actually serve me, as long as I have genuine reasons for it.
Pathologizing that seems extremely harmful. Viewing, say, the usage of this site, as rotting myself or being a failing of character that I haven't stopped, can't be healthy in and of itself. To constantly do things and then hate oneself for it, repeatedly unable to change anything because of an individualistic perspective of choice and behavior, feels immensely unpleasant and the fact so many people think that way scares me. I think the chance of such self deprecation being unhealthy is way worse than the chance that enjoying playing video games is actually part of a capitalist plot to destroy my sense of self to stop me from revolting.
I understand where you're coming from but stuff like the "45 second silence" absolutely infuriates me. I refuse to subject myself to listening to someone with that level of condescension and infantilization of their own viewers. It's unbelievable. I'll continue building in Minecraft and they can fuck off with their weird gotcha attempt. I don't enjoy being bored. Who does? I'm not going to purposely torture myself just so I feel more morally pure about my hobbies.
And also, I think the whole not having a sense of self in the way people usually describe it is just a common autistic thing. There's a reason "kins" are so popular among autistic people as well as an inability to describe one's own feelings in words. Our experience with identity is simply vastly different from a neurotypical person's, it has been before computers were as frequently used, too.
Ah ok. Sorry I kind of interpret negative adjectives as moral judgements very easily.