What If I Just Stopped Caring About Keeping Up With Media?
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I’ve mentioned my massive media backlog before, the little time I have to watch it all and how it stresses me out. What if instead of feeling that I have to be on top of everything, I…wasn’t?
The biggest part of the backlog was 1TB of YouTube videos I had. I planned on not watching YouTube until I caught up but I then realized that I had 1 year’s worth of video which I can never get through. Since I had already downloaded the videos and I can always watch them on YouTube again, I decided to just delete all them. While I remember a number of creators I’d liked, it wasn’t the end of the world.
With that experience, why not liberate myself from having to be on top of everything? Not consuming it won’t end the world. I guess the best thing to do would be to subscribe to a lot of sites and consume very little of them. It can be hard for the human brain to process a glut of information, but I’m sure I can make something that won’t be as cumbersome to read.