Hold still.

What?

Attention's dropping.

Attention's shot.

Oh no.

Oh no.

You got algal brain.

Hit him with our Reddit story with Minecraft parkour in the background.

Is that helping?

Still?

Hit him with one of those crafting videos where you just go, Hey, what the heck are they doing over there?

Still dropping.

My God.

You're worse than I thought.

Five TikTok instances.

Autoscrolling.

Three autobooks playing at the same time.

And seven memes.

Feet-related memes.

Oh, okay.

Now I have your attention.

Okay.

We found your baseline.

Thank you.

Hello.

Now that I have your attention, I can finally give you the cure.

Your brain has gotten messed up from the algorithm in ways you don't even understand.

I know because I used to be the same but I managed to escape the algorithm Touch my computer That's right You may touch Disgusting Yeah, and I get it who cares another one of those What's interesting about this isn't that it happened is that it happened by mistake I didn't mean to do it.

It just sort of did and you know what that means That means there's a cheat code.

There's an easy way out and I will share this cheat code with you That's not so fast Always instant gratification, huh?

You gotta wait hit him with more feet.

No, I'm just kidding We all have Algo brain and to certain degrees.

It's okay I call it Algo brain, but in reality, it's just that I think being online messes with your head I think it's just a prize that we have all come to accept, but I say no more.

No more.

Because we all know the internet is bad for you, but then why are we here?

Just to suffer?

I'm standing here, stress levels down.

Are we stressing?

Do I look like I'm stressing right now?

What are we stressing about?

Huh?

What's so goddamn important?

My brain synapses are firing again.

All three of them.

I feel like I'm six foot right now, not to exaggerate or anything.

I am me me, but I feel like I have something to share for once okay, and I will yeah Just so just so we're clear, but I have the sheet code.

I have the sheet code.

To get to the cure we have to understand the disease so what's the problem then?

I think the problem lies with our limitation in our brain or should I say not limitation?

I read a book about our brain one time I learned that there are certain elements to your brain that are just hard-coded, okay?

There's no way to get around it But there are also elements that can be trained like your attention span and because of that that also means it can degrade And because tech companies these goddamn tech companies Their metric of success is how much attention they can suck out of you and that means it's a race to the bottom That's why clicking a YouTube video is like getting shot at a little shotgun Point-blank range like bro chill.

That's why the more time you spend online The more agg-brain you got the more sucking has happened to you 5,000 engineers just go Optimize his retention and that job has been passed down to me I didn't ask for this The whole success of this YouTube video is how much I can keep you engaged What happened to just simple little clickbait?

I gotta engage people now.

I was ready to give you the cheat code right away, but the algorithm says no It's not my fault But I'm telling you you gotta free yourself before it's too late I'm standing here 6-11 practically not to sound like a boomer dad again But I am concerned for how this is affecting especially the kids Did you know that Gen Z has the lowest cognitive performance ever?

Or the first time it went down.

We would always become smarter.

Who can blame them?

Look at the environment we're in.

I get the argument, the counter argument is like, Well, they're better at playing Minecraft.

It's like, okay, cool.

Games when I was a kid was fun.

Now look at Roblox, the biggest game for children, has microtransaction in it.

That's weird.

Now there is short form content.

Hooray.

Yippee.

And just to be clear, I am a fun person.

I like a meme.

I like a But now what I'm not okay with is AI generated shorts, which is being created So we got consumed with no intent created with no intent Congratulations, we've industrialized nothingness and it's just getting worse.

You gotta free yourself before it's too late I'm like a Morpheus smorpheus right now.

This is your moment, bro.

I'm here for you, bro I want to make it clear that everything I say in this video is okay to indulge with if you want to play Roblox all day knock yourself out but the key is intent that's what matters intent matters if you go around your life not making your own choices then who the heck are you you are your choices and your actions that's what shapes who you are we understood this from philosophy thousands of years ago but if you don't even make a choice and just let algorithm dictate your life you got Like the MIB alien in your brain Steering classic example I used to catch myself all the time being on my phone without intending to and I get so pissed off I'm like I forgot it's like you open in the fridge to me same thing I find myself just spending wasting time and I'd be like I did not want to do this if you want to do this That's good for you, but I don't want to do this But I found the cure I found a cure and a lot of it is going to sound crazy, but you gotta hear me out It's a step-by-step process and I'm not saying you have to do all of it But you should do some of it for me the solution started with my de-googling video That's not to say Google is the whole problem with everything clearly.

I failed with my de-googling.

I'm still on YouTube and full Transparency I still use Google Maps.

It's too good.

It tracks traffic too good Okay, whatever I was supposed to do I tried using like a rapper for it, but then they banned that so thank you Google for schmuggling again I can't I wanted to remove all the tracking and telemetry So I put all those apps that I didn't really trust in a second profile social media anything attention hungry It went on the second profile and I swear to God I cannot understate how much that has changed my life those five to six seconds that it takes for me to switch over to the other Profile stops me every time from going hey is this is what I want to be doing doing people get dumb phones to stop themselves from wasting time on the phone but really that's all you need you just need a little bit of friction now my phone is what I want it to be a device that serves me not the other way around I'm not the product when you do head over to the other side the dark side or I should call it the rainbow sucking attention side it's so obvious what's going on like everything is so desperate for your attention since it's my phone and text messages and email and all that is on the main profile I always have to swap back anyway you should do this You should do this The second thing I did was self hosting you gotta stealth host man They're coming for you.

The effect that self hosting did on me was that I am NOT the product anymore What the things I use are mine and because they're not free.

I'm not paying with my privacy or or getting algo smugged.

I think the main difference is that ads and news don't reach me.

It's hard to explain the effect that this has on you without actually experiencing it.

I'm one of those people that believe how much the subconscious affects you.

Even if you are not actively processing information, just the fact that it exists in your peripheral messes with your head.

All these services going, It messes with your head, man!

How much- Like even if you're not actively clicking on all these bullshit, you still see it and I still think it messes with you.

Self hosting, I'm just here vibing.

It's me and the tools I use, nothing else.

No noise.

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Next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna disable shorts.

Poof, gone.

You don't have to do this.

I like YouTube, okay?

I don't have to de-google everything, okay?

But I hate how shorts is everywhere.

I can't escape it.

I search, there's shorts.

Homepage, shorts.

I go to someone's channel and shorts is just shorts.

Fuck, damn, I don't wanna watch the shorts all the time.

If I was running a website, I would want to empower my users.

Google CEO, hello?

Why can't I disable if I want to?

Why?

Well, I took matters in my own hands.

My last video, I trained my own AI, and I was testing out what it could do, and so I gave it a super simple task of just writing an extension to block shorts for me.

And bada bing bada boom.

Ah, beautiful.

And then I was like, oh, wait a minute.

Let's keep fixing YouTube.

No more homepage as default.

Are you seeing this?

This is so nice.

Let's watch Jacksepticeye.

It's gamed with some C4, so I have to get a detonator.

No sidebar with recommendations.

It's just the video.

Let me do a comparison.

Oh, this is good.

Oh, shorts.

You want to watch shorts?

Oh, you want breaking news?

You want breaking news?

You want more shorts, actually?

And a sponsor.

Oh, you wanted to go to the comments?

No, you have to scroll through all these fucking videos to get to the comments.

Look at this.

This is ridiculous.

Goodness gracious.

This is crazy.

I fixed YouTube.

My subscription box.

That's what I want to see.

Not just random algorithmic choices all the freaking time.

Not only this.

How to pick me.

Pick this video.

Pick this video.

No.

The subscription box, which I chose.

And then all of a sudden.

Oh, please.

YouTube as I enjoy it.

connecting with people, being entertained by them, learning from them Oh!

Not this sporadic schizophrenic experience to be online like, oh my god It's so jarring when I turn it off.

I'm like, oh god, is this what it used to be like?

Ugh!

Maybe this whole thing is just a me thing, okay?

I'm telling you, man.

Now, I found out someone has already done this, so I'm gonna link theirs and you can just instantly fucking do it.

But yeah, I fixed YouTube, you're welcome.

Next, I unfollowed everyone.

You don't have to do this.

This is definitely a me thing.

I just got really fed up and I do think it's kind of funny because remember the Congressional hearings with Facebook were Zuckerberg loved being a human.

Well what came out of that in case you didn't know already It was at 10% of all social media on Instagram is social 90% is this bullshit a bunch of information fed to you by a machine that don't know you and don't care to know you I'll take you I always had this idea that I had to be on social media I have to otherwise how am I gonna connect with my friends meeting up with them?

I don't do that either I'm just kidding.

Maybe just talking to them.

Maybe just ask them what they are doing Instead of stalking them like a fucking weirdo.

It's okay to share stuff.

That's fun.

I get it, but maybe not everything I don't know man It just had the effect that I don't even bother to go because like what am I gonna do look at memes Although I have delegated that task to Marzia.

She shows me memes now, so that's another way to do it You just find someone else and they do the work for you I do think it's funny cuz I quit Twitter a few years ago because I just thought it was getting too toxic and People would come to me be like yeah.

Yeah, Felix.

It's real bad anyway It's like why why no one's forcing you to be on this website I feel like everyone has this idea you have to be on social media you Next get a DNS blocker It's kind of the same as YouTube the thing that I did where you block a bunch of stuff only that it does it on a network level level so you can remove ads you can remove websites none of it even reaches your device i think that it's kind of insane now that i think about it you probably have done this too we grew up on the internet unfiltered and we are still unfiltered internet i'm not crazy man but that's crazy i forgot to mention you can also host a dns on your own so if you're using hosting there for example they make it easy for you to set it up you'll have a dns blocker anywhere which you should have anyway last but not least i'm not a productivity person believe it or not i don't even think it's real it's just a feeling that you give yourself it doesn't matter what you do if you want to play games all day browse social media all day whatever it doesn't matter but i think what matters is that you choose to do it and i think a lot of times we don't want to admit that maybe it's something isn't our choice i still doom scroll Because sometimes I'm just fucking tired.

But I replace it with my own list.

I host my own RSS feed.

It's what I pick to do scroll.

Okay?

I can still make that choice.

Different websites that just isn't that bad to me.

Bookmark, blog post, whatever.

I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence.

That's what I'm calling this.

Tech fencing.

These tech companies don't care about you.

So you're going to have to start caring about yourself.

I care about you.

That's why I'm making this video.

So the cheat code is basically build some friction.

It's that simple.

Let your brain catch up and make the choice yourself.

And also filter out the noise.

That's your defense.

And that's your cure.

Now you understand the disease.

You are free.

Bon voyage.

That's my new outro.

Just kidding.

Routfest.

Sure.

Let's get real for a second.

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Free apps, free services.

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Your name, your phone number, your address, your relatives, your shopping habits.

They trade this and sell this.

And you might be like, I don't really care.

Whatever.

They make money off your data.

And it's not just like a little bit either.

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