To not want to sit and watch YouTubers all night?

[Miserableat29]

Been at work all day cooked put the DS to bed who is a pain for bedtime takes me a good 45 minutes to get him to sleep. Finally come downstairs to relax and have a cuppa DH is watching his fav YouTubers one after eachother. Really cringy childish stuff I can’t stand it. Had a huge argument about it and he’s gone upstairs in a huff and kicked the bin over!!

Am I supposed to just go along with what he wants.

oh its not, OP just seemed to not understand it so I was comparing to TV. But YTK definitely provides a false sense of security that it's being moderated or screened as if a dedicated network kids channel, and it isn't. Some dodgy stuff has happened on it. However I think the danger is more for parents who let younger kids on it unsupervised rather than older like yours.

Oh stop playing silly beggars. Unless you're 108 you know perfectly well what YouTube is. God help you.

@Wateroffacatsback I get you. But if there's only one large screen in the living room then it should be something mutually agreed. It's not anything to do with 'real' telly. Just it's bigger in a relaxing area.

Sometimes. But sometimes one of us is watching something on the projector and the other is doing their own thing. I couldn't give a damn if my husband has a documentary on the projector that I'm not interested in. I'll sit with him and do crosswords or catch up with friends on WhatsApp or whatever.

Sometimes our mutually agreed programme is from YouTube, sometimes Netflix, or sometimes BBC iPlayer. It doesn't matter which platform it's on.

I can’t believe YT is perceived as just a place for Andrew Tate lovers 😂

I’ve found this incredible female biker on there - who solo rides across continents. I think her name is Itchy Boots. So much interesting content on there!

Only by small-minded imbeciles with zero imagination or desire to try anything new.

I agree it's a fantastic platform. I subscribe to so many brilliant people.

You are being ridiculously intense about an opinion that a man watching YouTube is an ick

😄😄 it's not that serious???

My opinion is that YouTube should be watched on your phone, preferably earphones in, for a brief time. It's not tv material unless you're trying to entertain a child

Teenagers watch YouTube for their favourite YouTubers like Jake Paul and Andrew tate

Conspiracy theorists also watch joe rogan and think that they are more informed than everyone else

It's great for make up tips or diy or if you need a tutorial on something specific. Or for drunkenly searching up and old song that's not on Spotify

I'm sorry but its not something you put on and sit down to watch like you would do netflix.

Not only that but watching it on your main tv! If a man i was seeing (I am single now) put on YouTube on my tv, I'd get the ick and want rid because I would assume he's immature!!!

I stand by it - YouTube- only acceptable in certain circumstances, not for viewing in front of other people on the family tv

It was incredibly useful when I was doing my psychology degree. We learned about the Millgram experiment, want to watch video from 1962 of the actual experiment? Youtube. Struggling to grasp a concept and want it explained in a different way? Youtube. Want to see footage of the Stanford prison experiment and experts talking about it? Youtube. Want to see two psychologists with opposing theories having a discussion? Youtube.

I'm sorry but it's not something you put on and sit down to watch like you would do netflix.

Not sure what you're sorry about. People do sit down and watch things on YouTube despite your imaginary rules about it.

You seem quite intense yourself. You're very keen to assert the Ten Commandments of YouTube Viewing.

@slashlover

I agree. The sheer volume of history documented for posterity on YouTube is incredible. It's an amazing resource.

I also love it for language learning

A small minded imbecile????? FFS 😄😄🙄

@Wateroffacatsback your arrangement sounds fab. I guess OP is saying she's annoyed with the situation. And I can see why. And throwing bins?!

But in an ideal world your way is obviously good.

Ah the snobbery on this thread about YT 🤣

There are actual series on there but ok

So a documentary about a subject on TV is fine, but a documentary about the same subject on youtube isn't? What about programs which have previously been on TV but are then uploaded to Youtube?

I do know what YouTube is??? It was invented during my youth and should stay there!!!

You'd surely just watch the original programme?

I'd accept that it was trustworthy news if it was made say by the BBC and then uploaded decades later on YouTube.

But I still would side eye a man who wanted to watch a years old, poor quality, documentary about something random that was uploaded to YouTube rather than something on a streaming service

It's still icky

Edited - a documentary on the iplayer or now tv would be boring but acceptable i suppose, I'd just go on my phone and zone out

Me and DH hardly watch tv together as we don't ljke the same shows. We have a tv in the bedroom and one in the living room for this purpose. I just finished rewatching the entire series of Motherland and he has been watching some gory drama about the American Civil War. Can you just get another tv? If he was watching his thing downstairs i would just go upstairs and vice versa.. much easier than fighting over one tv or being forced to watch something you have no interest in.

You realise that you're in the minority? Youtube is the second most visited website in the UK after google with 2.3 billion visits in December?

So if someone wants to watch a documentary about WW1 then only TV is allowed and anything else is trash?

Edit - my friend's son was studying 9/11 in history. Youtube had endless documentaries, news shows from the day etc.

@mumofoneAlonebutokay

The endless rules 🙄

I watch foreign language programmes and tutorials that I can't get anywhere else except on YouTube. I also watch programmes that were aired originally on television but now no longer are. I also love behind the scenes stuff about the making of programmes which I often find on YouTube.

So people can't watch something on YouTube because they missed their chance to watch it on terrestrial TV? Your interests sound very limited.

Absolutely crackers.

I think what's happened here is you're just talking utter bollocks and now feeling the need to double down. Why don't you think of something you like and have a little nosey around on YouTube to see what lovely things you can find to watch. It'll probably open your mind up a bit.

But why would it be poor quality? Sky News streams live on YouTube.

David Attenborough documentaries are on there. None of which are poor quality.

I think you’re thinking of the 2009 version of YouTube.

I feel your pain

DP and I go to bed early and relax with the heated blanket over us, the bedroom is the warmest cosiest room in the house and same size as the living room.
He usually watches Netflix or tv and I read on my kindle or doom scroll and it’s mostly nice and relaxed.

Occasionally though he watches videos for hours on instagram and sometimes the same one over and over. The different sounds drive me bonkers and he won’t wear headphones as he’s autistic and he can’t cope with anything in or over his ears for sensory reasons.

I’ve learned a good new trick though, if he’s been doing it for too long and I’m on my last nerve I make sure my book is downloaded and reset the WiFi and tell him he’s crashed it watching too many videos 😂. He’s useless with technology so it puts a stop to it. He did mention the other day that it only happens when we are in the same room, I said it’s just because we are both using the internet.

You could try that if you could get him to fall for it? Either that or I just change the WiFi password and say he can have it back on when he stops being annoying.

It sounds like we have a terrible relationship but it’s pretty much the only thing he does that winds me up. I could cope with YouTube, it’s the short clips that do my head in with manic laughter, the same bursts of song over and over or him constantly sticking his phone in my face saying “look look”. I feel like kicking more then a bin!

@RisingSunn

PP simply doesn't know the breadth of what is available on YouTube and is doubling down that it's a platform solely for conspiracy theories and fluff influencers.

Meanwhile my husband is now watching old footage of Who's Line is it Anyway on YouTube (on the projector!) in memory of Tony Slattery. We've also saved this documentary to watch tomorrow.

Conspiracy theorists also watch joe rogan and think that they are more informed than everyone else.

You don't need YT to listen to Joe Rogan (and if you did watch news coverage on YT you'd know a lot of his listeners are pissed with him at the mo) but he's useful to keep tabs on because the man has influence and managed to persuade a sizeable amount of his fanbase to vote for the Republicans in the recent election. So it's interesting that real politicians don't ignore him or dismiss him, but lay people do and yet think they have a better grasp on what is happening in the world!

It's not tv material unless you're trying to entertain a child

It has virtually everything TV has and more besides, so this comment is just not justifiable.

Like Instagram, if you have bad taste the algorithm will continue to show you rubbish. Upgrade yourself and it will give you amazing, big screen worthy, content.

I think that your weirdly aggressive tone suggests that you're a bellend with anger issues and no self control. You're probably chatting shit about your varied interests and are Andrew taters number one viewer 🙄

You're off your rocker.