Most YouTube influencer guides recommend at least 10 minute videos, and by god you will watch 10 minutes of someone describing information that could be read on a short table while they add sound effects, animations, jokes, and pogfaces.

When people tell me they don't watch TV, I ask them if the watch YouTube or Twitch, because these kind of services are what TV was before: something with low density of information, better used as distraction while you do something else.

Nevertheless, I'm uncomfortable with playing a video in the background, because that might give the platforms the impression that wasting my time is fine if it improves metrics.

These days, our attention is constantly being pulled in several directions at once, so I praise projects like this one, who try to wrestle control back.