Freaking YouTube

I was doing so well.  So well.  My TV watching time was down, I haven’t played video games in over a year (because I so maturely and despondently sold my gaming system), and limited some of the excesses of social life to keep productive and studious until I get out of school and in a real job.

My weekends were also devoted to either church responsibilities or further practice and the like.  And this weekend, I blew it with YouTube.

Freaking YouTube!

Okay, it’s not all I did.  I went to a dance, I attended a fun church conference for single adults, got to meet new people, but Saturday afternoon, I felt under the weather, so I went home to rest.  Like, actually take a nap and make myself feel better.

I got no rest at all.  Instead, I’ve been watching those videos and some over and over and over, and while I felt better afterwards, I haven’t wanted to do anything else.  It was so hard to focus in class yesterday because of the overload.  I feel like I’m playing Minesweeper or FreeCell again; they serve no purpose but to kill time and months later, after beating your own high score ten times, you realize the world has passed you by.

And you know what?  This time, it was totally worth it.

Search for these videos:

“After Ever After” by Paint, which is the greatest parody of Disney’s princesses, all about what happened after Ariel, Jasmine, Belle, and Pocahontas had their “happily ever after.”

The Fine Bros. do a series called YouTubers React, which is a fun show of making popular YouTubers watch a series of viral videos and watching them react to it.  Videos I would normally never care about have made me laugh till I cry.  I’ve watched the “Rick Roll” and “Knife Song” videos over thirty times and I feel no shame.

Their Teens React isn’t as good but I can’t rag on them too hard because they’re the reason I discovered the good one.

And to top it off, I’ve actually seen a bit of Game of Thrones on here.  I have no desire to watch the series from the beginning (I have several reasons for that.)  But I have been curious to see how good a job they’re doing, and having just caught all the current clips of Jaime and Brienne (I watched the hour long “Supercut”) I am convinced that the creators have done a great job.  The bath scene was as emotional and intense as the storytelling scene in Jaws.  I can’t think of any better comparison and I think it speaks highly for the work of the actors and the crew that have put the show together.