The Girl
YouTube has completely changed my life. For better and for worse. I do learn and enjoy it a lot, but it is an addictive time-suck.
I watch YouTube and follow certain beauty/fashion gurus for makeup and hair tips. The beauty community is HUGE on YouTube and something I discovered a few years ago (2009) and have since, been addicted.
It is really useful for things other than the viral YouTube classic videos.
The Boy
First and foremost, YouTube is a photo album. It’s a place to relive old memories and jump right on the nostalgia train. Sure, you can use it every now and then to learn how to fix a sink, teach yourself to train a dog or listen to a popular song.
But most of that stuff is boring.
YouTube exists so that people like me can experience, once again, the beauty and wonder of Frank Dux’s epic victories in the kumite. It exists so that I can actually enjoy some classic episodes of Big Bad Beetleborgs. YouTube is there for me whenever I need another fix of WMAC Masters, one of the greatest pieces of Saturday morning television that has ever existed:
Don’t fuck with “The Machine”.
Of course, there’s also the evil, disgusting, how-the-hell-did-I-find-myself-here part of YouTube. We’ve all been there. It’s that point where you find yourself watching a Full House clip, which then leads to you watching some Bob Sagat standup, which is then followed by some Bob Sagat lookalike doing gymnastics, until you’ve finally found yourself lost and confused, watching a clip of an Indian midget dancing his little brown ass off. Oh, no?
So go ahead. Get lost in YouTube. Go watch clips of all your favorite shows from when you were a wee lad. Trust me, they’re on YouTube. From Small Wonder to Wonder Years, from Sesame Street to 21 Jump Street, it’s aaaaaaaaallll there.
With that, I leave you with some Muppet Babies. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, MUPPET-EFFING-BABIES.
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