Dateline 7-20-2016

YouTube seems to be attempting to thwart my efforts to avoid anxiety-inducing content. Whether its election coverage, conspiracy docs, or even tales of a false history, I decided to take a break from having these videos play in the background as I work. Though I'm truly fascinated with the topics, the overall tone is too troubling in these times of world chaos, so I'm opting to add more comedy back to my life.

It's been about a week since I've made this conscious effort to change the tone of my passive entertainment. Since then I've been watching a lot of videos of weirdos playing old NES games, grumpy film fans ripping apart movies and reality competition shows that focus on skills over drama and dating.

I've already found that I have a bit of a better outlook on life. The problem is that it is much harder to find fun content that creates consistently entertaining content for the autoplay feature of my streaming device. When watching bad news my standard drop rather low. That and since these videos are just supposed to be background noise I prefer the documentary format as they are easier to listen to without causing me to feel the need to look at the screen.

It's still a new change so I'm getting used to it but it's been long enough that my YouTube recommendations should be a little more helpful. No, instead of recommending similar videos like the ones that I've been watching nonstop for a week, the YouTube know that I am craving the crazier content that keeps me feeling insane.

Oh well, I'm still fighting the urge even though I have to give in every now and then, like when "The Queen Mother claims to be non-human" or when CERN is up to something weird but I have avoided falling into any rabbit holes that send my mind into dark what-if daydreams.

Now it's time to fire up a playlist of the dry British guy real-time driving digital semis across the land.

Talk to you tomorrow,

- The Wicker Breaker