“When I discovered YouTube, I didn’t work for five days. I did nothing. I viewed ‘Cookie Monster Sings Chocolate Rain’ about 1,000 times.”
One of my favorite things to do when I don’t want to do anything I’m supposed to is watch how-to videos on YouTube. How to style hair, knit, do origami… typical things, for me. The origami stuff is helpful because written instructions are usually confusing, and my favorite hairstyling videos are the ones by teenage girls doing their own hair in their moms’ bathrooms.
Because of all this, YouTube has taken it upon itself to recommend more how-tos. I usually ignore them because they’re things like, “How To Bench Press By Yourself Without A Spotter.” Or, “How To Kiss With Passion.” I already know how to do one of these things, and have no real interest in the other (just guess)—but sometimes the recommendations are interesting, such as “How To Get Into Any Club.” I click to watch, and I learn that what you have to do is dress like you’re the DJ. Genius, right?
And then we have the suggestions that aren’t instructional, but are supposedly somehow related to my other interests, like the trailer for The Thing.
I don’t really see how it’s relevant, but I can’t argue that it’s not when the rest of my favorites are videos like these, both of which I’ve shared on Facebook before:
This was a joke but I love how spot-on some of these suggestions actually are. Ooh, swish, they probably didn’t expect that would happen. I’m really interested in that adaptable sleeve, too.
Graphic designers may also act like this, but we’re not [all] murderers like Bale in American Psycho.