This is an awesome comment! Thank you for writing it. I sincerely mean that. It helps me maintain my tenuous grasp on faith in humanity, haha. You seem super cool. :)

I get you. <3 It’s all about finding a good balance. Just do what you reasonably can when you reasonably can without harming yourself, and you’ll be better off than most people. Like a sort of harm reduction approach, ya know? There’s only so much we can do with the way the world around us is set up.

Try to be kind and understanding to yourself. You deserve that. This life is hard enough without us being so damn hard on ourselves like you and I seem to! We don’t have to be perfect. Doing what we can to be good enough is better than trying to be perfect and inevitably imploding in the process.

You’re not incorrect, but I doubt you’re telling OP anything they don’t already know. It sounds like they’re not able to and/or are struggling to. Maybe you didn’t mean it that way, but replying like this came off kind of mean and shitty. You could’ve just scrolled on by and kept it to yourself. OP is clearly suffering, they deserve kindness.

I totally understand. I dont think you’re a bad person for toying around with the idea if it’s hurting them.

I’ve thought about doing the same thing to my mom’s phone on her ReVanced app and then just go "huh, I guess YouTube broke something for everyone in ReVanced again. Sorry! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " since I’m the one that sets it all up for her and researches and fixes it when it breaks. She has super bad untreated ADHD and she gets sucked into them super easily and ends up spending tons of time watching and getting worked up about nonsense, harmful, ‘conspiracy theory’ garbage made to target, upset, manipulate, and take advantage of people like her… It’s concerning me. It’s wrong.

But it also feels wrong to lie to her and make changes to her phone without her consent, ya know? I don’t know…

I’m curious to know if you end up doing it, and if so, how it goes.

*Edited to add: oh god I didn’t realize how long and rambly this comment ended up until after I posted it WHOOPS! 😅 My apologies. I guess if any community will understand, it’s this one, ha!

I love that painting on the wall behind them. It’s so damn pretty and well done! Anyone here know anything about it, by any chance?

This post and it’s comments are likely helping lots of people either way! :) I know I’ve learned some things from it.

I hadn’t heard about this or the Ubisoft thing (but I’m not at all surprised, ugh.) Thank you for spreading the information!

Thank you so much for sharing this link - and for the post! I appreciate you :)