Reddit isn’t my biggest issue. Youtube is really my weakspot. I posted my 1 month and 3 years free on Reddit before (can’t link unfortunately).
Lots of folks use Youtube in moderation. Watch a half hour here or there, quit the video before it starts autoplaying the next one. I’m not one of them. My particular poison were VODs from streamers in strategy games such as Hearthstone, League of Legends, Starcraft II, etc.
I was burning through those recommended videos like Tic Tacs, losing myself in a rabbit hole every single day.The moment of realization happened during the pandemic when I got an email from Google stating I had watched 40 hours of Youtube in a week. Yikes
.A whole workweek not furthering my goals, not deepening my relationships, not furthering my overall purpose in life.Just watching other people play video games better than I could.Surely there could be better ways to spend my time.
Determined to stop procrastinating my life away, I broke the habit when I left for a vacation and never looked back. I started with pretty strict rules. Never visit the main page of Youtube. If buddies send me videos I “had to watch” or tutorials, I’d copy the URL and download the video offline to my device so I could watch it outside Youtube’s framework.
Normally, I’m pretty freaking hard on myself. Unnecessarily so. My entire life I have indulged in self-flagellation. So I thought, what if I do the opposite of that?
Hence the idea was born to celebrate my “one week sober” of Youtube by making a chip. I initially did it because it just made me chuckle. But when I showed the chip around to my friends, and on the previous two Reddit posts, and the response was strong and (mostly) very positive!
Hence why I’m going to make some additional ones. I started a little website called AlgorithmsAnonymous (dot com) where you can leave your email in case you’re interested.
Of course, there are much more dangerous and damaging addictions out there than Youtube, Tiktok, Reddit, etc. But if you make a promise to yourself and you keep it, why not celebrate it? Even the smallest personal win is a big one. And no win is too small not to be celebrated.
eaglespettyccr on
Amazing!!! Thought about mass production? I would do a 1 week challenge just to have one of these!
Beautiful_Walrus_262 on
Lol wtf
HurtlingThroughSpace on
Dayum. I need this. Thanks for helping me see the light. Off I go…. Wish me luck.
VoxulusQuarUn on
You were in Reddit. Reset the timer.
nobodyisonething on
Not these are coins that would mean something!
coolbreezeaaa on
Congrats! 👏
TacoKnocker on
one day at a time guys. we got this.
Felix_Von_Doom on
One week without reddit *Immediately breaks it by posting a pin for the thing you’re trying to stop using*
CanadianKushBush on
Beat that Al Gore rhythm
quickblur on
I have a love/hate relationship with Reddit. On the one hand I waste entirely too much time on it. On the other hand it’s introduced me to some of my favorite music, games, shoes, and movies…
I think the trick is really just blocking off times (like at work) where I don’t use it.
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Now I gotta get off 😉
OP here, to add:
Reddit isn’t my biggest issue. Youtube is really my weakspot. I posted my 1 month and 3 years free on Reddit before (can’t link unfortunately).
Lots of folks use Youtube in moderation. Watch a half hour here or there, quit the video before it starts autoplaying the next one. I’m not one of them. My particular poison were VODs from streamers in strategy games such as Hearthstone, League of Legends, Starcraft II, etc.
I was burning through those recommended videos like Tic Tacs, losing myself in a rabbit hole every single day.The moment of realization happened during the pandemic when I got an email from Google stating I had watched 40 hours of Youtube in a week. Yikes
.A whole workweek not furthering my goals, not deepening my relationships, not furthering my overall purpose in life.Just watching other people play video games better than I could.Surely there could be better ways to spend my time.
Determined to stop procrastinating my life away, I broke the habit when I left for a vacation and never looked back. I started with pretty strict rules. Never visit the main page of Youtube. If buddies send me videos I “had to watch” or tutorials, I’d copy the URL and download the video offline to my device so I could watch it outside Youtube’s framework.
Normally, I’m pretty freaking hard on myself. Unnecessarily so. My entire life I have indulged in self-flagellation. So I thought, what if I do the opposite of that?
Hence the idea was born to celebrate my “one week sober” of Youtube by making a chip. I initially did it because it just made me chuckle. But when I showed the chip around to my friends, and on the previous two Reddit posts, and the response was strong and (mostly) very positive!
Hence why I’m going to make some additional ones. I started a little website called AlgorithmsAnonymous (dot com) where you can leave your email in case you’re interested.
Of course, there are much more dangerous and damaging addictions out there than Youtube, Tiktok, Reddit, etc. But if you make a promise to yourself and you keep it, why not celebrate it? Even the smallest personal win is a big one. And no win is too small not to be celebrated.
Amazing!!! Thought about mass production? I would do a 1 week challenge just to have one of these!
Lol wtf
Dayum. I need this. Thanks for helping me see the light. Off I go…. Wish me luck.
You were in Reddit. Reset the timer.
Not these are coins that would mean something!
Congrats! 👏
one day at a time guys. we got this.
One week without reddit *Immediately breaks it by posting a pin for the thing you’re trying to stop using*
Beat that Al Gore rhythm
I have a love/hate relationship with Reddit. On the one hand I waste entirely too much time on it. On the other hand it’s introduced me to some of my favorite music, games, shoes, and movies…
I think the trick is really just blocking off times (like at work) where I don’t use it.