The YouTube Challenge

So I got the Idea of this Challenge by SergioEduP, and he suggested trying it myself. While January is over and we are already a week into February I am doing it a week shorter, but my Goal is to see a Permeant Improvement anyway.

So, unlike Sergio, I decided to not got full on cold turkey on me, and still allow some YouTube. In particular a List of YouTubers I already Subscribed to via RSS. This list was initially Started with previous attempt to reduce my YouTube dependence that failed. But the RSS Feed remained and was continually maintained by me. But as Preemptive protection against falling into Algorithm Hell and just continue Watching, I am going to Block YouTube on my Browser, and only watch my Videos via my RSS Reader.

Why tho?

Similar how Sergio Described in his blog, please give him a read, I spent an eye watering amount of Time watching YouTube. So bad that my Muscle memory when opening a Browser is to type in youtube.com. This has begun to effect me in other segments of my Life.

• My Attention Span is getting shorter
• I am less Creative and Motivated to work on Projects
• I am Socially less active Overall it is harming me Physically and Mentally. And this became especially apparent when I was compiling the Data of my Week before the Challenge. Where I collectively watched 95.38 hours over 493 Videos. And I can barely remember 5 of those.

This Graph is not 100% accurate, as Videos were Removed or weren't watch to completion

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                  label: "hours",
                  data: [11.84, 13.36, 16.32, 18.37, 14.88, 14.55, 6.06],
                  yAxisID: "y"
              },
              {
                  label: "Videos",
                  data: [181, 49, 57, 87, 60, 47, 12],
                  type: "line",
                  yAxisID: "y1",
              }]
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