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screen time on phone 4 hours ( but i run companies and do a lot of telecalls to my managers) per day generally speaking. Most of the times its less. tv not that much, about an hour in a gym. A lot of people are buried in their phone. Look at public transport
if we do not work hard to stop it in the U.S it will be a reality as well, look at what this government in America is like as well as the dim wit president. A 1984 is more likely than a lot of people think
@@stoneneils No, that's just a disaster. In a few months, we will see the US disconnect from the world and everything the West is built on could very easily fall apart. Are you prepared?
I agree 100% with you on short-form media, it's a cancer of the mind. I don't have TikTok or Instagram, but I use CZcams for the medium to long-form content and I dislike that it includes Shorts. After realizing they were an absolute SINK of my time, attention, and ultimately of my life, I removed them from my browser's CZcams using an extension. I can't do the same on my phone, but since I'm a coder, I wrote a script to go through my CZcams history page and remove every single instance where I watched a short. Now on the surface it looks like my account never watched a single short, so I don't get recommended them as aggressively. Whenever they pop up, I ignore them or click on the X "don't recommend shorts for 30 days" or whatever UI bullsh*t option they make available. Avoid short form media, people.
short form media is desiged to waste your time. I too avoid it. Once you get hooked, you just watch another one and another one and you don´t even notice how time passes. That can happen with other things too but short form content usually provides no value, nothing you will remember.
I reccomend using the app stayfree, it an app that monitors your time usage and you can set limits on how much time you use phone and will block out the app after ( you can use pin to turn this off or adapt usage based on what your goals are) but they have an option in their setting to block all shorts. It helps me so much :)
Unless you use an iPhone (there are options still out there), you can use other CZcams frontends like NewPipe, LibreTube, etc. to not only block ads, but also avoid training their insane algorithm.
While I haven't gotten rid of CZcams Shorts from my view, I've built the self-regulation and control to prevent it from wasting too much of my time, if any had my interest in the first place.
@@lilblackduc7312 Do you really think that this comment is news to anyone? the word "film" is commonly used as a verb for recording. just like how people will call any vacuum a hoover even if it was not made by hoover.
@@beezowdoodoozoppitybopbopb9488 it give boy a dream they improve themselves in order to get girls, get better 😁 go out try to date good-looking sexy girl and if got lucky she might be your wife. Or imagine CCP want all women look like our mom or something. (While most of CCP can got hand on some beautiful celebrity 😜) Anyway CCP plan to throw women who can't merrier to theirs solder in army to make child thought
Free Tibet Free Inner Mongolia Free Xinjiang/East Turkistan Free Northern Vietnam Free Manchuria Free Hong Kong Free Jimmy Lai Free the good people of China Free CZcams Free Pooh Bear And keep Taiwan and Indo Pacific region Free Free from the evils of the CCP Chinese Criminal Party
they can try all they want, Winnie the Pooh is unstoppable. He steals honey from live bee hives with NO PANTS ON, no fear at all… that’s freedom of mind AND body 😂
They are both awesome together and on their separate shows I personally prefer watching the separate shows because they tend to streamline the Contant into a digestible sized video but then again I also like watching clips from china fact chasers
Yep. While both are good on their own too, it's more enjoyable to laugh at the CCP with them for two hours every week. Serpentza is definitely funnier with CMilk around
I stopped watching short term content last october. It was hard at first, because I had gotten so used to always checking my phone, but OH MY Lord, how much more productive I've been ever since!
This is terrifying in its worldwide implications. As someone who has been battling depression for over 30 years, I realized a while ago how much social media exacerbates my mental illness. I stay away from it as much as I can. Even so, I see how much it affects those around me and how almost everything in my life is altered by it regardless. I'm okay with feeling out of the loop sometimes, but watching that loop spin faster and faster is disturbing.
im gen z who abandoned social media well before many others have, its really hard forming deep relationships with others my age, but the few that i made regardless of the circumstances mean everything to me . I really hope others my age wake up soon, I miss the kind of energy we had when we were kids before social media was a new thing.
I never went for Facebook and I didn't got for TikTok, but I used to be a Twitter addict. On CZcams I do check out shorts at times, but when they were introduced I decided I would never scroll and I never have. The algorithm may recommend me things and I'll click on them. But goddamn I will not outright start watching the next one.
When I was hearing about the numbers for Chinese TikTok, I couldn't help but think of this very website and just how little 'wrongthink' can make you lose your channel, or be demonitized.
While I can agree that the way platforms like youtube or twitch enforce policy can be inconsistent and frustrating, it's definitely a far cry from a place like China where messing up can lead to being thrown in a concentration camp or worse.
@@RootigaAre we talking about the media now or privately owned platforms? And there's actually a big difference between the media in America and China. You either don't know much about the world or you're intentionally spreading nonsense.
your right and to me personally it already feels like it has. the content from when it came out to now is drastically different. its a kids app now at most
I agree with that thing on short-form media. I've had several instances of wandering onto one interesting vid, only to end up losing consecutive hours of my evening. It's different than normal videos maybe in the background or every once in a while. Short form vids capture so much attention, and it doesn't feel like that with the short duration of each vid, but the next vid and the next vid and the next vid. Then, it adds up
This is like the gamification of human behavior and external interactions in the world. It is so so dystopian on a level I have never imagined. The horror of giving AI language calculators to determine human rights....... "It is unfair that you have advantage XYZ as a living human being to group XYZ, therefore you are fined 100 points for existing." It is clear this is arbitrary - but arbitrary law making + a machine learning data system = horror.
I keep considering CZcams being an authoritarian government simulator. The same with getting invested in any online game, where the company running the game would suddenly have just about total control over your life. It's why I'm detaching myself from all that shit, but CZcams is a really hard addiction to break.
🤣😂🤣😂 Great analogy. I don't mind YT, because most of what I watch is all informative, historic, or scientific...but....you still don't want to be watching hours of "TV" per day anyway.
His content isnt short-form either, which was mostly what he was talking about here. You can actually learn and retain things from this length of video, but not from a short
The Concrete Confessional blog guy has some insane stories about being an educational consultant for the children of China's elite politicians / businesspeople/ celebrities. The first part is called "I Was Simon Song," I think, and Vice did a feature on it. It's def worth checking out. He was in Shenzhen during the COVID lockdowns, the A4 protests, and the pro-democracy riots in Hong Kong, as well.
Short form content ruining memory rings pretty true. Back in my college days my psychology 101 professor tasked us to target studying for 30 minutes with no single mental distraction that fully removes your attention. Very difficult. He said if you started out at 3 or 4 minutes, that's really damn good. Most couldn't get past 2. Get it to 30 and you can achieve any goal you want. Yeah that wasn't gonna happen to most with how many students even used the book search computer for their social media addiction (which was Facebook at the time).
I quit Reddit when you uploaded that last video asking for screen time. I had about 1-2 hours a day and now it’s basically nothing. I’ve felt much better and can sleep much better.
When a streamer, someone who actually makes a part of their living from media says he thinks that shorts are unhealthy, one probably should listen. Thanks for your honesty and perspective C-Milk!
He is not joking when he says he remembers things more when he stopped using short-form media. Months ago it was hard to remember brief thought, but now it's much more easy.
Wow, you’re right. I’m done with short form videos. I knew it was a problem and that I needed to reduce screen time but this is the tipping point for me. No more.
I swear TikTok in America gives extra credit to people who are extra weird or extra good looking? It seems like those are the people who blow up on TikTok. At least that's what I see from watching content covering TikToks. I never gotten the app
I’ve been watching content about China. In 2009 I almost moved there but my son was born and so I stayed state side. You and Winston have been the only CZcamsrs I still watch. I always wonder how my life would be if I moved but ultimately I’m happy I didn’t go.
Can’t wait for you to follow up the short video dilemma, it’s ironic that is contributing to CZcams’s downfall trying to follow TikTok while sites like Spotify are embracing podcasts and are succeeding because of it. And instead of reflecting this, CZcams is now starting to think they can branch out to become the new msm news site 🤦♀️
Here's the thing about short term media. They (I don't know who they are, honestly) found that people have now got a shorter attention span, on one subject. So, they found that if people made video's that were only a few minutes, people would watch, but ironically were left wanting more. It's a new phenomenon that sites like CZcams have created. Since each video is only a few minutes long, and it doesn't satisfy your need to watch stupid shit, then you start watching more and more to get that video "high". Hence, you spend more time on it. They then get even more money in add revenue. Think of it this way. When you watch a video that is 50 minutes long, you see what, round 3 or 4 adds. So, with the short form, you watch 2 adds in say, 5 minutes. That works out to the equivalent of 2 times 10 adds in the same amount of time compared to 4 adds in that time. That's 20 adds compared to 4 adds.
Doesn't apply to everyone. I gave a couple hours to Insta, never installed tiktok, got bored, rarely visiting it today. I prefer proper stuff, documentaries, dog groomings, some comedy and filter out hyperbolic titles and most AI thumbnails. Too much fakery out there. Not worth of my time. And I have no time for ads either. Skipping even sponsoring.
short term media, reels, tiktok, shorts, facebook posts... they are cancer Its ok to watch 2 hour long movie that won't ruin you like 5mins scrolling, I avoided using facebook for years but i am forced to use it for work and I can see how my time is being wasted, its like you can't control it best to avoid it from the start
Nice to finally see a deeper dive into the Chinese Social Credit System. If you want to go a step further, maybe a video about how it is influencing changes in US government and business in the last decade, though you still need to dive deeper into the Chinese system, since they've been trying to build the system since the 1980's.
Life is quite tough in China. Can't protest or criticize the Government. If you do, you might end up in jail or some reeducation camp. You can also end up with negative social credit scores.
I have never had any social media and barely spend time on trends. I am always astonished that people can scroll shorts or tik tok or any of these type of videos. It is mind numbing. I hate it even more when someone tells me I have to watch something because they always want to show me some stupid video that piqued their interest but that I have zero interest in. I tend to love reading or understanding tech, science, math, etc. I think social media is destructive. I actually think the internet is too. There are constructive uses, but most people are just using it to feed dopamine and their attention issues. I think the internet has hurt society more than helped and it was planned by the companies of course. Oh well, I am just a tiny tiny spec in the world. Each second that Facebook has, they can influence millions with whatever they want. I can help show my Sister a piece of propaganda, find all the receipts and evidence, but in that time, Facebook has brainwashed another billion. lol
Fact's that's what happens when people let social media get too them .they get so obsessed with the media ofc we have the big tech companies that spread misinformation and other things that ruins social media. China is up there as a country that think they can control everything that's not how it works. Eventually people is going to get angry and start protesting
1) 4 hours a day is an education certificate in a new career or hobby. You can learn a new language, job ready skill or learn to knit, sew, garden or cook. Wow. 2) Short form can be really fun- but it is literally designed to be like potato chips- pure snacks without any lasting value.
A relative worked with a nurse who thought aubergine/eggplant was just a phallic like image. She didn’t know it was a vegetable! How scary is that, a nurse in the UK can’t identify common vegetables. My relative thought she was joking, she wasn’t
Why would somebody from the UK know what all the tropical vegetables are? Y'know, the entire world isn't lardass land, where everything can be cheaply imported from Mexico or Californa.
KIDS - please go touch grass, read a book and say 'hi' to a neighbor, everyday. When SHTF and all the "things" are down, YOU won't go crazy like the rest of the world will be. ❤Thanks Matt!❤
@@jrobbin24 The ccp people have no sense of humor, that's how we recognize them in chats. They even seem to have no hope other than that of being a civil servant. Friendly
I think you and Winston are doing a fantastic job of educating people. But can you find a sponsor with less dodgy products that might be addictive or harmful? Thanks.
I do agree, but that product isn't actually addictive like you might think. These things came out years ago, by a different company. It only last a short time because they aren't that good. I'm a cigarette smoker, and I tried them many years ago. I got nothing out of them. All they give you is taste. They might have nicotine in them, but it doesn't go to your lungs. They suck, big time. (forgive the pun). The reason people smoke is to get the nicotine. This is the thing people are addicted to. No one is going to give up their cigarettes or vape for them. It's just a waste of money.
The fum ads kinda piss me off too. i quit after 22 years of smoking cigs, and the *only* way i was able to was by vaping. At first i smoked and vaped, but after a couple weeks i couldnt put up with the taste of cigs anymore so i pitched them for good. The difference in addiction between the two is huge to me, i know i can stop vaping with little to no withdrawal effects, at least compared to cigs. I had to smoke every 2 hours, no matter what, or even more than that. With vaping, its more of an afterthought. Im never stopping everything im doing to go and hit my vape, but when i smoked i was outside every 2 hours like clockwork. And if i couldnt get out to smoke i was not a pleasant person. I dont get that with vaping, at all. The fum ads are BS to me because vaping got subverted by tobacco companies and demonized. In many peoples minds vaping is even worse than smokimg, which is complete and utter bs. It can be bad or worse for some people, bit the frequency is incredibly low. Especially compared to cigs. Creators pretend fum is some perfectly healthy and very functional cessation device when its not. If they were more honest and just said i got paid to say this i would be cool. But they act like theyre trying to help, and that they actually care about you. Its gross
Agreed, TikTok and these clips are absolutely awful. I only spend some time on here watching 20-30min videos on DYI stuff or real news. Cheers, this is terrifying nightmare fuel.
I find it so ridiculous that CCP watched that one black mirror episode and thought to themselves "hmm, ya know wat imma copy" and made their social credit nightmare system
0:19 🇨🇳📉 China's TikTok equivalent now has strict government rules on appearance and behavior. 1:02 🌐 Chinese government's new rules target content creators, impacting their income and popularity. 4:29 📉 China introduces a six-tier health points system for online behavior, affecting influencers. 5:24 🚫 Banned content includes anything deemed unhealthy, vulgar, or challenging the government's norms. 7:07 📊 Ranking down in tiers results in reduced visibility, limited features, and severe consequences for streamers. 9:20 🚫 Falling to F tier leads to being banned, impacting livelihoods of Chinese streamers. 11:12 🧠 China's AI-driven control aims to know and monitor every aspect of citizens' lives, both online and offline. 13:40 ⏰ Reduced screen time, especially avoiding short-form media, positively impacts mental health. 14:46 📉 Reflecting on the negative impact of excessive phone use and the need for awareness.
Re memory: when you stop bombarding your brain with stuff, the brain will come out again... like with the toys: the creativity in kids develops when having minimum toys and no screen time. They willl find out how a stick can be a horse to ride and make a train from boxes and shoe laces (if you don't disadvantage their dexterity skills with velcro) .
Many of the terms are simply weasel words - that is, they can use them in any context and interpret both the word and the context any way if it suits them at the time. if challenged, then you misunderstood the context. Words are given extremely broad meanings as a specific one has limits applied. The vaguer it is, the broader the potential usage of the term. For example, "social order" does not need to have anything to do with social order in any meaningful way. It means whatever they want it to mean the time. Again, as contexts change, they say the issue (whatever it is) is now covered by the term. Same as "weird" or any other term that is coined today.
Advertising Fum as “good” and “natural” is so silly + false !!! It’s just another Juul - like the way they said it’s not smoke - it’s ✨vapor✨. As if that makes it any less toxic !!! Really speaks to the lack of integrity and honesty on this channel.
If you cannot buy beer because of excessive drinking. I wont be surprised if brussels will start to use this at one point to pressure people to buy less gasoline...
That is what we think of America's credit scores..Dystopian!!! They can't rent a home if they were 5 days late paying their phone bill two years ago. ;P
You are absolutely right I deleted all my social media except for CZcams. Deleting CZcams is so hard for me because I love watching your videos and music. But I feel much better about my self after deleting them.
I have never had any social media other than Twitter which I don't use much and I don't watch any shorts on youtube. My time online is some shopping, paying bills and mostly consuming news or long form youtube videos that I can typically learn from in some way. I have never understood the social media obsession and feel like from my outside perspective that I have watched it destroy society. I'm so grateful that I got to live my childhood and up through high school just before the internet era really took off.
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screen time on phone 4 hours ( but i run companies and do a lot of telecalls to my managers) per day generally speaking. Most of the times its less.
tv not that much, about an hour in a gym.
A lot of people are buried in their phone. Look at public transport
at some point, it will fail, no goverment that punishes there citztens can keep running.
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I wish I could comment, but you know,........western censorship.
China is "1984" in reality.
No, 1984 on steroids and other performance enhancing drugs
It's 1984, but with the state-sponsored addiction from Brave New World.
And Animal Farm.
if we do not work hard to stop it in the U.S it will be a reality as well, look at what this government in America is like as well as the dim wit president. A 1984 is more likely than a lot of people think
The world should be in 1980 in tech and living quality.
CCPs rules are super super weird. One of their rules are you're not allowed to be weird, but they don't apply that rule to themselves.
Of course not - the CCP is China, after all (it isn’t), so whatever the Party says and does is completely normal.
@@JFJD Only by their own standards, which is really weird. 😂
They also have a law against portraying sadness. Have you ever seen Xi really smile? 🤔
@@aaronmicalowe I seen him smile and its terrifying that mf have no soul
yeah cuz 70 million magas running around in the same ugly hat praying to be saved by a real estate developer is not weird. :)
@@stoneneils No, that's just a disaster. In a few months, we will see the US disconnect from the world and everything the West is built on could very easily fall apart. Are you prepared?
I agree 100% with you on short-form media, it's a cancer of the mind.
I don't have TikTok or Instagram, but I use CZcams for the medium to long-form content and I dislike that it includes Shorts. After realizing they were an absolute SINK of my time, attention, and ultimately of my life, I removed them from my browser's CZcams using an extension. I can't do the same on my phone, but since I'm a coder, I wrote a script to go through my CZcams history page and remove every single instance where I watched a short. Now on the surface it looks like my account never watched a single short, so I don't get recommended them as aggressively. Whenever they pop up, I ignore them or click on the X "don't recommend shorts for 30 days" or whatever UI bullsh*t option they make available.
Avoid short form media, people.
short form media is desiged to waste your time. I too avoid it. Once you get hooked, you just watch another one and another one and you don´t even notice how time passes. That can happen with other things too but short form content usually provides no value, nothing you will remember.
I reccomend using the app stayfree, it an app that monitors your time usage and you can set limits on how much time you use phone and will block out the app after ( you can use pin to turn this off or adapt usage based on what your goals are) but they have an option in their setting to block all shorts. It helps me so much :)
I must be the only person who has instagram and only follow accounts of sports teams and animal documentaries
Unless you use an iPhone (there are options still out there), you can use other CZcams frontends like NewPipe, LibreTube, etc. to not only block ads, but also avoid training their insane algorithm.
While I haven't gotten rid of CZcams Shorts from my view, I've built the self-regulation and control to prevent it from wasting too much of my time, if any had my interest in the first place.
Really easy to monitor people when they…constantly film themselves.
... don't worry your (notso)smartphone tracks everything even your heartbeat. So filming is not necessary.
Once Video Tape was introduced around 1980, people stopped using 'film' altogether. No one 'films'. It's all done with electronic storage.
@@lilblackduc7312 Do you really think that this comment is news to anyone? the word "film" is commonly used as a verb for recording. just like how people will call any vacuum a hoover even if it was not made by hoover.
Tiktok is self-reporting
@@lilblackduc7312Semantics !
CCP : make a child!!
Also CCP : stop being sexy!!
these are not connected ...
Lol
Those dont conflict. What was the birthrate in the very unsexy 19th century?
@@beezowdoodoozoppitybopbopb9488 it give boy a dream they improve themselves in order to get girls, get better 😁 go out try to date good-looking sexy girl and if got lucky she might be your wife.
Or imagine CCP want all women look like our mom or something. (While most of CCP can got hand on some beautiful celebrity 😜)
Anyway CCP plan to throw women who can't merrier to theirs solder in army to make child thought
Then, they're not make more babies 😅
They banned Poo Bear. But they still have a leader with a similar look.
Free Tibet
Free Inner Mongolia
Free Xinjiang/East Turkistan
Free Northern Vietnam
Free Manchuria
Free Hong Kong
Free Jimmy Lai
Free the good people of China
Free CZcams
Free Pooh Bear
And keep Taiwan and Indo Pacific region Free
Free from the evils of the CCP Chinese Criminal Party
You're insulting Winnie! At least he's got a soul 😅
What came first?
they can try all they want, Winnie the Pooh is unstoppable. He steals honey from live bee hives with NO PANTS ON, no fear at all… that’s freedom of mind AND body 😂
Social credit system in China is a big rumor! It's financial system, same like everywhere in the world.
It’s always weird seeing you and Winston apart. Like seeing Siamese twins in different rooms. Stay awesome Matt. Love the content.
They are both awesome together and on their separate shows I personally prefer watching the separate shows because they tend to streamline the Contant into a digestible sized video but then again I also like watching clips from china fact chasers
Ikr!
Yep. While both are good on their own too, it's more enjoyable to laugh at the CCP with them for two hours every week. Serpentza is definitely funnier with CMilk around
LOL great analogy!
Winston's still connected to him, he's just leaning just out of view.
Watching a futuristic dystopian society of billions forming.
What a time to be alive.
New World Order - The Great Reset
Taiwan number 1
Taiwan is officially the Republic of China I don't care what you people say.
不是、一个中国。
@@Hellohellohello803no, it's Taiwan.
@@Hellohellohello803usa number 1 mother fucker 😂 keep playing with us we dare you to
@@Hellohellohello803Taiwan is a sovereign nation!
This is straight Dystopian
we're getting there really really fast in the west because people keep voting away their rights for "safety"
No, its worse . it is REAL
I stopped watching short term content last october. It was hard at first, because I had gotten so used to always checking my phone, but OH MY Lord, how much more productive I've been ever since!
This is terrifying in its worldwide implications. As someone who has been battling depression for over 30 years, I realized a while ago how much social media exacerbates my mental illness. I stay away from it as much as I can. Even so, I see how much it affects those around me and how almost everything in my life is altered by it regardless. I'm okay with feeling out of the loop sometimes, but watching that loop spin faster and faster is disturbing.
im gen z who abandoned social media well before many others have, its really hard forming deep relationships with others my age, but the few that i made regardless of the circumstances mean everything to me . I really hope others my age wake up soon, I miss the kind of energy we had when we were kids before social media was a new thing.
I never went for Facebook and I didn't got for TikTok, but I used to be a Twitter addict. On CZcams I do check out shorts at times, but when they were introduced I decided I would never scroll and I never have. The algorithm may recommend me things and I'll click on them. But goddamn I will not outright start watching the next one.
Its all tripe
(Banning beautiful people) me: Safe!
(Banning "weird" people) me: 😰
😂
Aww 😂
Glad I never let myself get started on the whole short-form media thing… great video sir! Very enlightening and informative.
When I was hearing about the numbers for Chinese TikTok, I couldn't help but think of this very website and just how little 'wrongthink' can make you lose your channel, or be demonitized.
While I can agree that the way platforms like youtube or twitch enforce policy can be inconsistent and frustrating, it's definitely a far cry from a place like China where messing up can lead to being thrown in a concentration camp or worse.
@@MrCobalt The only thing separating media in America and the Chinese government is that they are companies and not the government
@@RootigaAre we talking about the media now or privately owned platforms? And there's actually a big difference between the media in America and China. You either don't know much about the world or you're intentionally spreading nonsense.
" ..... i'm too sexy for this app 🎵 too sexy for this app 🎶 too sexy it hurts!"
🤣
🎶"And now I'm starving, you know what it means, because I shook my sexy tush under the ccp"🎶
🎶"And now I'm starving, you know what it means, because I shook my sexy tush under the ccp"🎶
🎶"And now I'm starving, you know what it means, because I shook my sexy 🎵tush under the ccp"🎶
🎶"And now I'm starving, you know what it means, because I shook my sexy 🎵tuzh under the ccp"🎶
Someone should make a song bout it💯
They're regulate the platform right into the ground.
your right and to me personally it already feels like it has. the content from when it came out to now is drastically different. its a kids app now at most
Thank god
good.
They need to regulate TikTok out of existence in the US and Europe.
I agree with that thing on short-form media. I've had several instances of wandering onto one interesting vid, only to end up losing consecutive hours of my evening. It's different than normal videos maybe in the background or every once in a while. Short form vids capture so much attention, and it doesn't feel like that with the short duration of each vid, but the next vid and the next vid and the next vid. Then, it adds up
1:03 Why does the Chinese sickle have such a small knob? The Russian one had a proper handle.
Coz Chinese men have small knobs.... on their sickle handles
small hands
We all know the answer to this question
@@N330AA Commie knobs!😆
Small hands.
Reminder: Taiwan is a free country
And I hope it stays that way
This is like the gamification of human behavior and external interactions in the world. It is so so dystopian on a level I have never imagined. The horror of giving AI language calculators to determine human rights....... "It is unfair that you have advantage XYZ as a living human being to group XYZ, therefore you are fined 100 points for existing."
It is clear this is arbitrary - but arbitrary law making + a machine learning data system = horror.
All the best from Poland :)
I keep considering CZcams being an authoritarian government simulator. The same with getting invested in any online game, where the company running the game would suddenly have just about total control over your life.
It's why I'm detaching myself from all that shit, but CZcams is a really hard addiction to break.
🤣😂🤣😂 Great analogy. I don't mind YT, because most of what I watch is all informative, historic, or scientific...but....you still don't want to be watching hours of "TV" per day anyway.
i think as long as you’re smart with the use of your time on youtube you should be alright
C-milk: "cut down on your screentime!"
also C-milk "thanks for watching please subscribe"
I was thinking the exact same thing.
You need to eat, but not all food are equally nutritious.
His content isnt short-form either, which was mostly what he was talking about here. You can actually learn and retain things from this length of video, but not from a short
Confucius once say:
“Crowded elevator smell different to midg*t”
@@JimTesty what is nutritional value of cleaning grout from backside?
I too am feeling the effects of screen dementia. I am beginning the process of cutting down on screen time.
The Concrete Confessional blog guy has some insane stories about being an educational consultant for the children of China's elite politicians / businesspeople/ celebrities. The first part is called "I Was Simon Song," I think, and Vice did a feature on it. It's def worth checking out. He was in Shenzhen during the COVID lockdowns, the A4 protests, and the pro-democracy riots in Hong Kong, as well.
I've never tried tik toc, or wanted to in the past but the urge to score zero in a system designed to program the population is a bit overwhelming.
Short form content ruining memory rings pretty true. Back in my college days my psychology 101 professor tasked us to target studying for 30 minutes with no single mental distraction that fully removes your attention. Very difficult. He said if you started out at 3 or 4 minutes, that's really damn good. Most couldn't get past 2. Get it to 30 and you can achieve any goal you want. Yeah that wasn't gonna happen to most with how many students even used the book search computer for their social media addiction (which was Facebook at the time).
I've seen this movie before, it was an episode on Black Mirror. I highly recommend you all watch it. Apparently, in Chine life truly imitates art.
Love the idea of FUM, will definitely try it. First sponsor I really feel a connection with.
Matt is almost to 1, million guys we gotta make sure we’re subscribing and sharing the videos for friends and family to see
Damn I remember him saying he was almost at a mil a year ago and asking people from the stream to go sub LOL
Stuck at 971k going on 3 weeks now. Gotta get it back into gear to hit ‘Gold Play’ my 3Q24 projection.
The China Show + Serpentza + Laowhy86... what more do I need?
Oh, yeah... the Monday show....
Add China uncensored, with Chris Chapel.
China Observer and Free China too.@@kurtwinslow2670
I donnu what more do u need, but I'm 100% sure what u don't need are going to china and watch tourist video
I quit Reddit when you uploaded that last video asking for screen time. I had about 1-2 hours a day and now it’s basically nothing. I’ve felt much better and can sleep much better.
Yeah bro, I wonder what people expected. I stopped using Facebook when I realized it was the future. What an ugly future. “Progress” my ass.
And everybody clapped...
When a streamer, someone who actually makes a part of their living from media says he thinks that shorts are unhealthy, one probably should listen. Thanks for your honesty and perspective C-Milk!
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this.
Excellent reporting 👍
He is not joking when he says he remembers things more when he stopped using short-form media. Months ago it was hard to remember brief thought, but now it's much more easy.
Matt and Winston rule!!!
Wow, you’re right. I’m done with short form videos. I knew it was a problem and that I needed to reduce screen time but this is the tipping point for me. No more.
I swear TikTok in America gives extra credit to people who are extra weird or extra good looking? It seems like those are the people who blow up on TikTok. At least that's what I see from watching content covering TikToks. I never gotten the app
I’ve been watching content about China. In 2009 I almost moved there but my son was born and so I stayed state side. You and Winston have been the only CZcamsrs I still watch. I always wonder how my life would be if I moved but ultimately I’m happy I didn’t go.
Well i'm not hot, so i'm ok.
Unfortunately i'm weird though.
Yeah it's pretty much one or the other.
Love ya❤
Can’t wait for you to follow up the short video dilemma, it’s ironic that is contributing to CZcams’s downfall trying to follow TikTok while sites like Spotify are embracing podcasts and are succeeding because of it. And instead of reflecting this, CZcams is now starting to think they can branch out to become the new msm news site 🤦♀️
Here's the thing about short term media. They (I don't know who they are, honestly) found that people have now got a shorter attention span, on one subject. So, they found that if people made video's that were only a few minutes, people would watch, but ironically were left wanting more. It's a new phenomenon that sites like CZcams have created. Since each video is only a few minutes long, and it doesn't satisfy your need to watch stupid shit, then you start watching more and more to get that video "high". Hence, you spend more time on it. They then get even more money in add revenue. Think of it this way. When you watch a video that is 50 minutes long, you see what, round 3 or 4 adds. So, with the short form, you watch 2 adds in say, 5 minutes. That works out to the equivalent of 2 times 10 adds in the same amount of time compared to 4 adds in that time. That's 20 adds compared to 4 adds.
Doesn't apply to everyone. I gave a couple hours to Insta, never installed tiktok, got bored, rarely visiting it today. I prefer proper stuff, documentaries, dog groomings, some comedy and filter out hyperbolic titles and most AI thumbnails. Too much fakery out there. Not worth of my time. And I have no time for ads either. Skipping even sponsoring.
short term media, reels, tiktok, shorts, facebook posts... they are cancer
Its ok to watch 2 hour long movie that won't ruin you like 5mins scrolling, I avoided using facebook for years but i am forced to use it for work and I can see how my time is being wasted, its like you can't control it best to avoid it from the start
Hey! I'm on the video too!
Nice to finally see a deeper dive into the Chinese Social Credit System. If you want to go a step further, maybe a video about how it is influencing changes in US government and business in the last decade, though you still need to dive deeper into the Chinese system, since they've been trying to build the system since the 1980's.
Life is quite tough in China. Can't protest or criticize the Government. If you do, you might end up in jail or some reeducation camp. You can also end up with negative social credit scores.
I have never had any social media and barely spend time on trends. I am always astonished that people can scroll shorts or tik tok or any of these type of videos. It is mind numbing. I hate it even more when someone tells me I have to watch something because they always want to show me some stupid video that piqued their interest but that I have zero interest in. I tend to love reading or understanding tech, science, math, etc. I think social media is destructive. I actually think the internet is too. There are constructive uses, but most people are just using it to feed dopamine and their attention issues. I think the internet has hurt society more than helped and it was planned by the companies of course. Oh well, I am just a tiny tiny spec in the world. Each second that Facebook has, they can influence millions with whatever they want. I can help show my Sister a piece of propaganda, find all the receipts and evidence, but in that time, Facebook has brainwashed another billion. lol
Fact's that's what happens when people let social media get too them .they get so obsessed with the media ofc we have the big tech companies that spread misinformation and other things that ruins social media. China is up there as a country that think they can control everything that's not how it works. Eventually people is going to get angry and start protesting
When are we going to see a serpentzA vs. laowhy86 split screen PK face off? C'mon boys.
1) 4 hours a day is an education certificate in a new career or hobby. You can learn a new language, job ready skill or learn to knit, sew, garden or cook. Wow. 2) Short form can be really fun- but it is literally designed to be like potato chips- pure snacks without any lasting value.
I wish I could help you reach a million. Alas, I am already subscribed. Another good video.
13:04 you are right about short form media. Then I start on the 1.5 hour documentaries.
When you think it can’t get crazier…
Watching your videos 8 hours per day. 😇
A relative worked with a nurse who thought aubergine/eggplant was just a phallic like image.
She didn’t know it was a vegetable! How scary is that, a nurse in the UK can’t identify common vegetables. My relative thought she was joking, she wasn’t
Why would somebody from the UK know what all the tropical vegetables are? Y'know, the entire world isn't lardass land, where everything can be cheaply imported from Mexico or Californa.
Laowhy you gonna have to do something massive to get that last 30k to 1 mil subs 😮 promise to get a tat of your choice and you will get there! 👍🏻
I agree. Good warning!
Short format social media destroys your attention span... Something you need in real life, an important quality being lost...
God dang those are some serious filters. They should promote that instead of their "AI, 5G expertise"
KIDS - please go touch grass, read a book and say 'hi' to a neighbor, everyday.
When SHTF and all the "things" are down, YOU won't go crazy like the rest of the world will be.
❤Thanks Matt!❤
Glad to see they are as crazy as we are. Makes me feel kind of normal.
We are crazy
The CCP is diabolical
Don't touch her. Lol
She is not your age!!
@@jrobbin24 The ccp people have no sense of humor, that's how we recognize them in chats. They even seem to have no hope other than that of being a civil servant. Friendly
damn Laowai, havent watched your vids in a few years - you have changed loads. Be careful man
I think you and Winston are doing a fantastic job of educating people. But can you find a sponsor with less dodgy products that might be addictive or harmful? Thanks.
I do agree, but that product isn't actually addictive like you might think. These things came out years ago, by a different company. It only last a short time because they aren't that good. I'm a cigarette smoker, and I tried them many years ago. I got nothing out of them. All they give you is taste. They might have nicotine in them, but it doesn't go to your lungs. They suck, big time. (forgive the pun). The reason people smoke is to get the nicotine. This is the thing people are addicted to. No one is going to give up their cigarettes or vape for them. It's just a waste of money.
The fum ads kinda piss me off too.
i quit after 22 years of smoking cigs, and the *only* way i was able to was by vaping. At first i smoked and vaped, but after a couple weeks i couldnt put up with the taste of cigs anymore so i pitched them for good.
The difference in addiction between the two is huge to me, i know i can stop vaping with little to no withdrawal effects, at least compared to cigs. I had to smoke every 2 hours, no matter what, or even more than that. With vaping, its more of an afterthought. Im never stopping everything im doing to go and hit my vape, but when i smoked i was outside every 2 hours like clockwork. And if i couldnt get out to smoke i was not a pleasant person.
I dont get that with vaping, at all.
The fum ads are BS to me because vaping got subverted by tobacco companies and demonized. In many peoples minds vaping is even worse than smokimg, which is complete and utter bs. It can be bad or worse for some people, bit the frequency is incredibly low. Especially compared to cigs.
Creators pretend fum is some perfectly healthy and very functional cessation device when its not. If they were more honest and just said i got paid to say this i would be cool. But they act like theyre trying to help, and that they actually care about you. Its gross
Agreed, TikTok and these clips are absolutely awful. I only spend some time on here watching 20-30min videos on DYI stuff or real news. Cheers, this is terrifying nightmare fuel.
I find it so ridiculous that CCP watched that one black mirror episode and thought to themselves "hmm, ya know wat imma copy" and made their social credit nightmare system
Thank you….it was a real eye opener.
Dystopia intensifies!
0:19 🇨🇳📉 China's TikTok equivalent now has strict government rules on appearance and behavior.
1:02 🌐 Chinese government's new rules target content creators, impacting their income and popularity.
4:29 📉 China introduces a six-tier health points system for online behavior, affecting influencers.
5:24 🚫 Banned content includes anything deemed unhealthy, vulgar, or challenging the government's norms.
7:07 📊 Ranking down in tiers results in reduced visibility, limited features, and severe consequences for streamers.
9:20 🚫 Falling to F tier leads to being banned, impacting livelihoods of Chinese streamers.
11:12 🧠 China's AI-driven control aims to know and monitor every aspect of citizens' lives, both online and offline.
13:40 ⏰ Reduced screen time, especially avoiding short-form media, positively impacts mental health.
14:46 📉 Reflecting on the negative impact of excessive phone use and the need for awareness.
Re memory: when you stop bombarding your brain with stuff, the brain will come out again... like with the toys: the creativity in kids develops when having minimum toys and no screen time. They willl find out how a stick can be a horse to ride and make a train from boxes and shoe laces (if you don't disadvantage their dexterity skills with velcro) .
Quality is better then quantity. I've always enjoyed your videos.
Many of the terms are simply weasel words - that is, they can use them in any context and interpret both the word and the context any way if it suits them at the time.
if challenged, then you misunderstood the context.
Words are given extremely broad meanings as a specific one has limits applied. The vaguer it is, the broader the potential usage of the term.
For example, "social order" does not need to have anything to do with social order in any meaningful way.
It means whatever they want it to mean the time. Again, as contexts change, they say the issue (whatever it is) is now covered by the term.
Same as "weird" or any other term that is coined today.
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Advertising Fum as “good” and “natural” is so silly + false !!! It’s just another Juul - like the way they said it’s not smoke - it’s ✨vapor✨. As if that makes it any less toxic !!! Really speaks to the lack of integrity and honesty on this channel.
Can u do another livestream about the UK piano incident?
Yes please do a video about this!
@@1979ikimus I heard some update on this incident ! I follow it all along!
Joe did one
There are so many videos already on it. Go watch the China show from yesterday.
@@AdamOBrien29 Joe who?? Joe mamma? Lol.
If you cannot buy beer because of excessive drinking.
I wont be surprised if brussels will start to use this at one point to pressure people to buy less gasoline...
PLEASE MAKE A WHOLE VIDEO ABOUT THE RANT AT THE END
That is what we think of America's credit scores..Dystopian!!! They can't rent a home if they were 5 days late paying their phone bill two years ago. ;P
You are absolutely right I deleted all my social media except for CZcams. Deleting CZcams is so hard for me because I love watching your videos and music. But I feel much better about my self after deleting them.
Please do a video about the cat abuser groups in China. China need to make a law to protect animals and jail the abusers!!
Great video. Wondering if you finished my book? Last chapter correlates well to this video.
The price of fum is a absolute joke.
That lifestyle must be keeping them impoverished and extremely stressed out. Those women look like they’re starving.
That's a good point. The days are not going faster.. we are just always on our phones so we lose track of time.
Complete insanity 😳
-100000 social credit points for you from Winnie the Pooh.
@johnhoward5954 Winnie 💩.. ok, lol.
Thanks for this vid, people really need to watch this very closely.
Nice Toyosa (citizen)!
Thank you for remind me how long I spend on CZcams everyday, and I will do something about it.
Great job!!
Thanks 🙏 😊Good luck hitting ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS 😅🎉
Good work! Keep it up!
Imagine pissing someone off to the point that they create a deepfake version of you to make you lose social credit points.
I have never had any social media other than Twitter which I don't use much and I don't watch any shorts on youtube. My time online is some shopping, paying bills and mostly consuming news or long form youtube videos that I can typically learn from in some way. I have never understood the social media obsession and feel like from my outside perspective that I have watched it destroy society. I'm so grateful that I got to live my childhood and up through high school just before the internet era really took off.
The smartphone was such a bad idea.
I feel the Chinese Government is the kid in class who liked getting Gold Stars even though they had no value...😂😂😂
Hello! I don’t know whether you’ve heard or not, there is now a problem with flayers in China. they torture cats filmed by the program Hello Street Cats! No one has been able to raise this issue for a very long time, we really hope for your help sorry for the mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker
Wow, this is truely bizarre! I didn't know that China's internet was this strange. And how does two people screaming at each other not qualify? WTH!
Funny that they call the competitive split screen thing PK as that normally means "player kill" in gaming.