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I don't frequent video hosting sites anymore, 
though I can't deny their potential usefulness 
when it comes to very specific information 
that seemingly doesn't exist elsewhere. Which 
is very rarely the case, as I dare say 
everything that exists in a video format has a 
written and more elaborate form somewhere on 
the internet. One could argue for the few 
obscure music pieces and old movies that no 
one cared to get removed yet, but even those 
are usually just mirrored or blatantly copied 
from archiving sites that aggregate such 
content.

One is quickly able to realise that most of 
the `useful' information, often condensed into 
3 minute chunks for the benefit of the ever 
diminishing attention span of the common 
digital person, only exists to profit of the 
inability to designate more time to learning 
that became so normalized. Some could say it 
has to do with the decline of literacy, but I 
daren't poke that bloated cow today.

Not a long time ago, perhaps it's still 
ongoing, tech channels began propagating the 
`free' alternatives to mainstream video 
hosting sites with attractive names like 
bytechew, lyebarry, or homer's epic. Sites 
promising the raw, unfiltered experience of 
unbiased information and powered by 
experimental money laundering practices.

I was naturally tempted to explore these 
heavenly places, but I was soon diverted from 
the tech folk that sent me there, onto a 
curious journey into the realm of alternative 
media that promised to flee the proverbial 
hell and finally shed light on all the 
realities behind the wrong realities I thought 
real, with faces cherishing the newfound 
paradise, ready to speak their mind without 
the muzzle imposed on them by their former 
overlords.

To my surprise, most of those calling for the 
massive exodus have only been mirroring their 
content, so one would end up watching the same 
`I can't say that here', albeit on a platform 
claiming to advocate for freedom.

It was an interesting experiment. Alas, I 
don't frequent video hosting sites anymore.