Also, I told myself, it's like watching sport instead of playing it, but something seems different.
I never could grasp the former, so maybe that's why I don't get the latter.
I browse youtube anonymously and so I get the neutral youtube experience, with what it things the average user wants.
Today I say a video suggestion with kids in the pics and a title "we made a blind test to distinguish frozen food from real one".
It's a really easy thing to do with your friend and family, unlike the soap opera scenario. It's typically stuff I have done, and actually still do.
So there must be a component I miss.
Many of these shows were the pillar of people's evening ritual - the whole family would gather around the TV to watch a fictional family experience life.
It's not something you can replicate every day with just having a drink with your buds.