I've been down so many holes

80s commercials, Saturday morning cartoons, so on and so forth

isn't it wild how that works sometimes?

somehow finally kerjiggered the algorithm to find me some ancient nickelodeon Pinwheel and holy fucksing shit

I remember this one

last night I watched hbomb's 5 year old like, personal and philosophical vlog about the 1980s transformer's film and was completely fascinated - and also it suddenly clicked as to why all 80s cartoons are the way they are

the absolute batshittery of random european experimental animation is clearly where I got my entire vibe

.....wwwwhhhh omg Lauren what

reagan removed restrictions on advertising lengths on tv? ok well now we can run entire shows that are ads for kids toys

transformers! mlp! all to sell ads because of reagan

er, sell toys but they were ads

and lmao meanwhile wow you really have gone on a journey

I remember THAT I just can't figure why they all had the same forumla

because it was cheap and easy probably

narratively I mean...Hanna Barbara and Ruby/Spears were not different at all

tonight I've found myself watching a documentary on neutrinos (normal for me) and now an interview with an actor whose stuff I've never once seen, I just use him as a pb for an npc and somehow now I'm watching him talk for a half hour about his struggles with depression

what is youtube even

Lauren plz

lmfao

you can't plz me look at you

I tend to usually just watch walkarounds from Japan but this was uh

I KNOW I watch 1989 Weather channel rips ok

I own this

there's too much on the internet and some of us have wormhole brains that just suck up weird information and weird videos we never needed

moths to a flame

I actually found a rip of the weather channel from 1993 that was recorded the weekend I was at an outdoor music festival, the very hour the severe thundersrm warning happened

that's amazing honestly, that that's a thing that exists

weather channel rips from 1993

'and over here in western Minnesota' UM

yes the amount that people recorded entire hours+ of the weather channel in the 80s and 90s keeps me alive

this actual episode of Pinwheel is fucking with my head ho

tho

no hoes here

I don't understand why the weather channel but I'm glad for archival purposes

like I understand recording movies/tv shows with fiction and plot you might rewatch but it never occurred to me people would watch weather reruns

but! again, very glad that people have, ultimately, like

that's just cool that it's available

idk either, I'm just glad 20-30 years later that they did

I had to google pinwheel because I didn't have cable as a kid so never saw it

I do have VHS that I want to digitize but it's like...episodes of The Young Riders and maybe some anime from 2004

that is some wild 80s shit for real

omg it so is

why is so much early kids' tv so deeply surreal that it's borderline horror now

like just looking at screencaps, I'm creeped out

it was a weird conglomeration of PBS-level videos of factories, bizarre indie animation from Europe, and puppets.

IT SUPER IS OMG

like I had a childhood thrill seeing the OG Fraggle puppets as the grand masters of the DragonCon parade this year, in person, and yet this shit is bonkers

I guess if you ever wonder why I'm like this, I'll just show you Pinwheel, it explains a lot

hahaha I love that though

lmfao fuck I confused the algorithm. it's lke 'ummmmmm....weird anime videos now? idk!"

that always cracks me up lmao

watch one thing and youtube is like ..... ok! 30 more like that

oh god I hate that

my youtube algorithm is so deeply eccentric now that it's mostly useless but it's very funny to me

"you watched 1 video by this person, how about 40 MORE??" no thanks honestly

what makes me mad is when it starts giving up and recommending videos to me that I already watched like 2 years ago

and now we're a week out from November sumo basho so it's really trying to pimp unsubbed sumo news

like "well I don't know but you liked this once, here it is again!!"

UGH that's me with Maru's channel. yes, I did enjoy watching a cat be goofy, I don't need to see it again

he's a good boy but let's not

LMAO I just ... looked at my youtube homepage and why on earth are some of these things recommended right now, it's really reaching

a livestream from the meeting of the governing body of the city of santa fe???

why the hell would I watch that?

omg

I get those once in a while too

why the fuck would anyone watch some rando city's council meetings online???

why are you reccing me a slate of nintendo let's plays? no. now it's european trains? hell the fuck no.

or an hour and fifteen minutes of someone roasting the 2021 musical dear evan hansen??? why?

when have I ever watched anything remotely related to that as a topic?

what in my history makes you think I want to see the Tachibana marching band perform live??

anyway it's usually mostly food videos and then youtube struggling to figure out what kind of music I want to listen to

it's almost always wrong these days

oh god the music is a joke

it was surprisingly good at suggesting things I might like about.... idk 3 years ago

I feel like it got really bad at that

it really did, you're not wrong

I do watch a lot of Japanese content but for the love of satan why do you think that means I want K-pop??

I did like The HU once but please no Indian bollywood pop that is not the same

lmfao

why yes, I do watch a lot of people walking around Tokyo and Osaka. That does not mean I want to see the same in NYC or Switzerland

I wish you could actually block keywords

yeah and the do not recommend this channel thing isn't even reliable at not recommending that particular channel

it is not!! it expires after an unspecified amount of time

I'm going to guess maybe 30 days? since that's also the maximum amount of time it'll remove the shorts or those godawful mobile-style games it keeps trying to push

I have literally never watched anything Disney-related, and yet every 4-5 months I'm blocking 57 channels of people who have no life except to livestream themselves at Disneyworld

FUCK SHORTS omg

everyone trying to be tiktok

if I wanted tiktok I would go to tiktok

fuck off with the shorts

agreeed 100000 percent

never mind I followed Lindsey Sterling for music and all she posts now is fucking shorts.

I'm so annoyed when one of my subscriptions has that little dot that means there's a new upload and I go and NO! there is nOT there is just a short

UGH SAME

points to eyes points to Charlie Berens

his midwest comedy is on point and I've seen him live but jesus fuck dude

I say that and then check to see he's got a new Manitowoc Minute awesome

and it's FUNNY AS SHIT thanks Charlie

A long time ago, there was a live action kids' show on ABC - I can't remember the name right now, I might have to percolate on it - and I would swear they had a very short clip used as a sort of beat, or punctuation for a gag that was my father probably the last time he went to the beach with me. (He was around after that, just never the beach.)

I've never looked on the internet for it....