Cable subscriptions around the country are
in decline as internet streaming services take the place of expensive channel packages. In many ways it makes perfect sense, after
all why should you pay for hundreds of channels when you only like watching a few dozen? Yet many households in the US have both streaming
services and cable, but with the explosion of internet tv we find ourselves asking, is
the net enough to satisfy our entertainment needs? To find out we once again turned to your favorite,
and our least important, staff writer to challenge him to give up an entire day of his life that
he'll never get back and watch YouTube for 24 hours straight! Hour 0: A 24 hour challenge, this is so much
nicer than the typical month-long nightmares I have to endure. And for once the challenge doesn't involve
something ridiculous, dangerous, or my personal favorite: ridi-angerous, a combination of
the two. The rules to this one are simple: watch YouTube
for 24 hours straight. What I watch doesn't matter, I just have to
physically watch it pausing only for bathroom breaks and I guess emergencies such as the
house burning down around me. Although with youtube streaming on smart phones
nowadays even that probably wouldn't qualify. Short of a zombie apocalypse that also knocks
out the internet, I have to watch YouTube non-stop. I admit that I already get most of my watching
done online, I haven't had cable for at least a decade and life has been perfectly fine
with just streaming subscriptions. Less ads, and you get exactly the content
that you want without paying for a hundred channels dedicated to rural soccer leagues
in the amazon rainforest- it's a pretty damn good deal if you ask me. To be honest I don't even know why people
still pay for cable, although I guess maybe there's a few shows on tv you can't get on
streaming as fast as you can watch on tv, but even most of the best tv shows are available
on streaming anyways. Like Game of Thrones, although after that
disastrous finale I'm not even sure HBO Go exists anymore, do they even make other shows? So I hesitate to say this, but this might
actually be fun for once. I'll check in in a few hours and record my
experiences. Hour 5: Five hours down, a little over a fifth
of my challenge complete- this is a cakewalk. At first I thought it might be difficult to
get through because despite there being billions of videos on youtube, I honestly didn't think
there would be anything I really wanted to watch. I'm not big on internet celebrities or watching
streams, probably because I'm not twelve years old, and meme videos are entertaining for
about ten minutes because again, I'm not twelve years old. I do love animal prank videos though, so I
watched a few of those and just kind of let it autoplay from one video to another. An hour later I was watching animal fail videos
which somewhere around hour two segued to human fail videos, which was fine until those
led to some very annoying internet celebrity videos at which point I stopped watching. We get it, you're cool online. I decided to rewatch some of my favorite movie's
trailers and found a bunch from way back in the day loaded online. Watching the original Alien trailer gave me
the chills, as well as the original The Thing trailer. They really don't make horror movies like
they used to. I just let it autoplay again and realized
I'd spent almost three additional hours watching trailers for old movies, which got me to thinking:
who the hell uploads these? Youtube is like a huge virtual library for
video, but who in the world actually takes the time to upload all of these videos? Whoever you are, you're doing a hell of a
service for humanity. Keep it up. 5 hours down, 19 to go. Easy peasy so far. Hour 9: There's a lot, and I mean a lot of
movie trailers on youtube. I watched trailers up until an hour ago and
I realized that trailers may be my favorite part of a movie. I always hated getting into a movie theater
late and having missed the trailers, and if I'm being honest there's some times when I'm
disappointed that the trailers are over and the actual movie is beginning. I feel like I've watched every trailer for
every movie ever, from Caddyshack to the latest Pacific Rim. Girlfriend finished work early today so she
came home and has joined me for at least part of this journey. My ass is sore and my eyes are a little fuzzy
from staring at a big screen TV all day, but I am definitely still entertained, and I still
cannot think why anyone would need a cable subscription with all this media at your fingertips. I've decided to let her pick what we watch,
and I'm curious if she can be as entertained as me by Youtube. Hour 13: Girlfriend made it four hours, although
to be fair, she did have to leave for one of her classes at the gym. She said she felt kind of worn out from just
sitting and watching, and when she did I realized that I'm pretty worn out too. Even though I work from home and spend a lot
of time on the computer, I still try to make sure I stay somewhat active, and I've definitely
never sat on my ass for thirteen hours straight. My eyes are kind of fuzzy and my brain feels
just a little bit mushy, which is ironic because we just spent the last four hours watching
documentaries. I didn't realize how many documentaries youtube
has, and I love docs so it was a pleasant surprise. I also didn't realize just how wide a variety
of docs they have- we watched one on the moon landings and then another on the hunt for
the giant squid. For laughs we watched one on bigfoot and another
on the Nazis. We went from moon landings to giant squids
to bigfoot to Nazis. Wow Youtube, is there anything you DON'T have
uploaded? I am feeling pretty tired already though from
just sitting here, so I think I need to energize myself and I have just the idea. With the girlfriend gone for a few hours I'm
going to watch a bunch of old, really cheesy music videos on full blast, and I mean super
cheesy but energetic stuff like Barbie Girl by Aqua. That should wake me up. Hour 15: Girlfriend came home and caught me
singing along to Spice Girls songs at the top of my lungs. I don't have anything else to report other
than my humiliation. When she went to the kitchen and asked me
what I wanted for dinner I blasted out the opening to Spice Girl's Wannabe, belting out
“Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want!” She stuck her head out of the kitchen and
just glared at me. Hour 20: Ok, things are getting a bit rough-
but I don't think YouTube is to blame. To be perfectly honest there is literally
no end to the entertaining crap I've found on youtube all these hours. But sitting here on the couch and just watching
tv is killing me. Funny because I'm getting paid for it, and
it's basically eight year old me's dream job. My ass hurts from sitting though, and I've
had to get up and pace around the living room just to wake my legs up. Honestly the biggest challenge here is not
finding things to watch for 24 hours on youtube that make the experience bearable, it's just
physically watching for 24 hours. I watched some redubbed old-school cartoons
like Captain Planet, G.I. Joe and Transformers, and almost busted a
gut laughing. Then I went back to watching some really obscure
music videos, like really, really obscure stuff and discovered hillbilly metal- yes,
that is a thing and yes you should go watch it immediately after this video because you
won't regret it. I also found Mongolian throat singers rapping,
which is also pretty mindblowingly awesome. If you don't know, Mongolian throat singers
are men and women who sing directly from the back of their throat and have really deep,
scratchy melodies, and some younger mongolians have learned to rap while singing in that
style and it's the best thing I've ever heard. Maybe even better than hillbilly metal. Then for some reason I started watching a
bunch of old Enrique Iglesias music videos. Don't judge me, the girlfriend already has. Hour 24: That's it, an entire day of watching
youtube done. I've watched everything from movie trailers
to redubbed cartoons to the weirdest music videos humanity has ever created, and there
are some real headscratchers out there. So what have I learned from this experience? Well, the most obvious is that humans are
weird. Like, really, really weird. I don't know how strange aliens will be when
we finally meet them, but I have a very hard time believing that any intelligent life we
ever encounter is going to have an online repository with literally millions of videos
of people scaring their cats with cucumbers. Or... their space-cats I guess. I also confirmed though that you can in fact
watch twenty four hours straight of youtube and never, ever run out of content to keep
you entertained. I stand by my original position on owning
cable- and if any of you do still own cable subscriptions, why? Cable is expensive and forces you to take
packages with a ton of channels you don't like, while the internet literally offers
you whatever you want right up front, and most of the time the only cost is your internet
subscription. Honestly the hardest part of this challenge
was the physical element of it. Not moving from the couch for twenty four
hours is incredibly exhausting, more so than just staying up. I've worked over twenty four hours before
on film sets and when hitting writing deadlines or even my time in the military, but when
you're just not doing anything, now that's hard. Even if you're being entertained with people
failing in hilarious ways, cats being scared with cucumbers, or very loudly watching embarrassing
music videos you secretly love. Honestly though, far as challenges go my brain
feels fried but at least this one was entertaining. I feel like you could watch youtube straight
for a year and never get bored. By the way, for my sake don't suggest that
in the comments because I'm pretty sure The Infographics Show will totally think that's
an amazing challenge idea and immediately make me do it. So keep on suggesting they send me to Hawaii
for a month, because it totally rocks that you guys have my back! All my suffering feels like it's not for nothing! See you guys on the next challenge. Think you could watch youtube for 24 hours
straight? What would you watch to spend the time- other
than Infographics Show of course! Let us know in the comments, and as usual
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