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Why Don't You Want To Do Anything After Binging 4 Hours of YouTube Videos...

HealthyGamerGG · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Mental health & neurodiversityPsychology & human behavior

What it is

Dr. K of HealthyGamerGG explains why people feel unmotivated and unable to start tasks after hours of YouTube or similar distractions. He frames it as a result of how social media is designed to capture attention, and says not to blame yourself.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in Ask HN threads on motivation and internet addiction as an accessible explanation of why screen time dulls drive.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “watch these two vids”

    Explains why you feel unmotivated after binging videos.

    faeyanpiraat, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How to do that you need to do but not motivated at all?”

  2. “the video has a more scientific explanation of this phenomenon.”

    Scientific explanation of how screen time dulls awareness and motivation.

    sph, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: procrastination, internet addiction, mental health, attention, motivation

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