@TechConnectify@mas.to This is how I find a lot of stuff I didn't know I wanted to know. Even - or especially - when I'm doing something else and it's just background noise, I can absorb the gist of a topic and if I want to know more I can either pay closer attention or look it up later. Or both if it's really fascinating! Wikisurfing is also discovery, but it's a far more interactive route that requires active attention. I get that some people feel like YouTube is just sponsors and mindless hype content, but that's writing off an entire medium, like saying TV or radio are/were pointless because you could get just your news and entertainment in print. It's fine to prefer a medium, that's why books and CDs still exist. However, as someone who used to eg. blindly hate Apple, all blind hate does is blind *you* to a thing's strengths and your own weaknesses. For me, it meant not knowing how to fix or set up Macs in my IT/computer repair jobs. To write off YouTube is to remove a means of discovery and passive learning.