With over one billion users, Youtube has taken a title as one of the most popular forms of social media, and entertainment. This means that there are many, many people who count on Youtube to cure their boredom and fill their free time, which drives creators to do some... stupid things. To put it nicely.
Here are 12 times that Youtube made me question... a lot of things.
1. Cinnamon Challenge
Honestly, at this point, everyone is sick of hearing about this and has been sick of hearing about it for years. Yes, years. There have been people filming themselves choking on cinnamon for years.
I never really understood why this became so popular so fast, and it still makes no sense to me. Why are we watching people eat spices?
2. Chubby Bunny Challenge
Again, sick of hearing about it. This, too, has been going on for years.
Initially, it was kind of funny. Kind of. But it only takes one video of someone stuffing their face with marshmallows for you to be able to predict what will happen in the rest of these videos.
3. The Knife Game Song
WHY. Just why. Why would anyone think it was a good idea to take a really sharp knife and stab it into the table in between your fingers really quickly?
Are you trying to lose a phalange? I just wanna talk.
4. Rainbow Milk Challenge
This is literally so disgusting to me. I have never been able to watch one of these videos from start to finish.
As someone who is already disgusted by dairy milk in the first place, the idea of watching someone chug unreasonable amounts of it makes me want to combust. The fact that it's rainbow does not make a difference.
5. Cheating Pranks
I really don't understand the humor in this. It's not that funny to make your significant other believe they've been cheated on. In fact, it's honestly just obnoxious.
It's definitely not funny enough to film and upload to youtube, and not funny enough for this many people to have hopped on board.
I just don't get it.
6. Dark Web Mystery Boxes
I... I'm just??? Why would anyone think this was smart?
When one of these videos came up in my recommended the other day (who knows why this was suggested), I really didn't know what to think. Out of curiosity, I watched it, and it was.. just as disturbing as I expected it to be.
I'll admit it. They're relatively interesting videos, but that doesn't mean they aren't stupid. It is quite stupid to venture onto the dark web and buy a suspiciously expensive, suspicious box from a suspicious person who has clearly done things so bad that they don't want any of this information to be traceable or recognizable in any way whatsoever (which is what the dark web is, if you were unaware).
How you even get to the dark web, I have no idea. I don't think I really want to know.
Picture a bunch of teenage/young adult Youtube creators sporting latex gloves and surgical masks and opening a giant box with "Sorry" written all over it, and that's exactly what you'll find with this challenge. This is just a disaster waiting to happen.
7. Texting My Crush *insert wildly popular song here* Lyrics
IT IS A SONG ON THE TOP CHARTS, OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO RECOGNIZE IT
8. Cutting Bangs
I would never trust myself to cut my own bangs. Kudos to all the people who gave it a shot, but it didn't turn out well for really anyone.
Also, these videos only take about two seconds, and in my opinion, are pretty boring and relatively anticlimactic.
9. Pregnant For A Day
I don't understand the entertainment factor of watching someone go about their daily activities with a fake baby bump strapped to them.
10. Playing "Episode"
I can't be the only one who's tired of seeing videos pop up of people playing that video game "Episode". I don't really care what your animated character is doing with their life. I just don't.
11. Food ASMR/eating raw honeycomb
Ew????????? Ew.
12. Trying ________ Workout For A Week
Come ON. Realistically, doing a 10 minute workout every day for a week probably won't have enough of an effect to post a video about doing the workout for a week. There are so many factors involved that the majority of these videos don't place emphasis on, and therefore I just can't bring myself to think of them as anything other than useless.