Join the NYFF Challenge (No Youtube Fabulous February)

That amount seems excessive, but I'm not to judge.

The only time I watch it is at night, after work. I play about 5-9 short comedy videos (a few minutes a piece), then fall asleep to longer videos, that play through the night.

Maybe an idea to try is not to turn on You Tube during the day. Just have a set window of 1 hour, and force yourself to stick to it. That way you are taking care of important stuff during day hours, and you limit You Tube to your "chill out time".

Also, an idea to try is if you have to budget your You Tube time, you could make a playlist with one hour's worth of videos. Put the videos in it, then watch it. After the last one, quit.

Another thing is you could just block off a certain day to not watch it. Maybe next week, don't allow You Tube all day on Monday. Force yourself through that day, and plan out the week after how long to stop. Just some ideas.

If you say, I won't watch it all month, that is too much to start out on at first. Take baby steps. Make small cutbacks. Because you are going to have to develop self-control on this sooner or later.

 

30 Day is amazing! Wow! And good job on learning the coding!

 

Would anyone like a challenge in avoiding all moving pictures alltogether?

 

I like the idea, but I personally don't need it so much. I just don't watch that much tv/you tube.

I never turn it on during the day. I usually get home around 9-10 pm, I like to watch about 30 minutes. Then I go to bed, where I put on a you tube video to sleep to.

I am not like I used to be, watching tv or you tube all the time. After I lost 100 lbs, I lost interest in idle activities. It was a blessing.

 

I've been thinking about quitting youtube for 2 years now and never had the courage to do so, this is my chance! I can finally break free from the curse of recommendations!

I'll join you as I've wasted waay to much of my time on that damn site, it's a great site but I'll use it only for academic or anything that is related to learning,

youtubers are starving to get our attention, and I'm fed up with it. I've deleted the app from my phone 4 months ago, It's time to step up!

I CAN DO THIS!

Day 1 let's goo

 

Day 2
I opened youtube habitually over 10 times today, it's mind controlling,

cmon people, fight the damn algorithm! It's the right step to a better, more focused life

 

I'm on Day 74 of No Youtube now. I can only recommend this. I hate the jumping from video to video for hours, the constant advertisement, or just watching a video during breaks, it clutters my mind. Now since I quit my brain is way less foggy and the days feel longer and more focused and productive also my screen time generally decreased. For some odd reason I didn't miss it at all. I just quit and surprisingly nothing happened I had no withdrawal symptoms at all, and now I just think what the hell was I watching on Y? At the moment I don't feel like I'm going there ever again and I mean it, with PMO its different, you might be on a long streak but you can always end up in that toxic spiral again. But Y seems gone for me. If you feel like this could be interesting for you, I encourage you to try it. Good Luck Guys!

 

Good luck, i'm doing a dopamine detox rn and about 4 days in. I still watch youtube, but only educational podcasts or educational videos that may be linked in articles I'm reading. While on paper completely limiting youtube sounds harder, i find it easier to avoid things altogether vs saying i'll just watch one entertaining youtube video. Same with gaming, its been a lot easier to just not game at all. But those times when I said "well i'll just game for a couple hours" are the times when temptation strikes the hardest. Its been getting easier as I've kept myself occupied with web development and reading. Those things are slowly becoming more interesting.

 

About 80 days in, still no difficulties so far. How are you guys getting along?

 

first week done, it's honesty such a good feeling to leave the circle of recommendations for the first time!.. I'll make it to one month!

 

Great going man! Yes we free ourselves from that stuff. It is indeed a huge improvement of life in general.

 

I know right?

although I didn't replace the habit of watching videos with anything productive or clear at the moment, for example most my free time that I would've used on youtube, was used on random stuff like playing chess or browsing whatsapp, or even just going on multiple apps on my phone for no reason, but all that combined is surely better than the never ending attention grabbing soul demolishing black hole that we all know as youtube


anywho.. keep it up everyone! we're making our future selves proud!

 

Day 1 of no YT

 

I think I'm on Day 94 No Y. Still going how are you guys getting along? Is it hard?

 

I've reached 21 days, so far so good, although I still have the urge to watch random crap like I used to, but I'll fight

 

Very good! @BrighterFuture 3 weeks is a good amount. Of course one needs to adjust to this new life and fill the free time with new stuff. It's tough but worth it. Can you already feel some effects?