Have you ever had that feeling when there’s suddenly nothing to do online? There you spend your days (and nights) happily surfing along, reading your favourite blogs, obsessively checking Twitter, but then something happens. You’re bored. The internet turns into a vast empty nothingness. You try reading the news, looking at trailers on apple.com, googling for childhood photos of Lady Gaga, but nothing works.
Some people might suggest that you go out for a walk or maybe meet up with some friends. I know a much better solution. Youtube. It might be sort of old school, but it still works. Whether you get kicks out of watching talking cats or people playing piano very badly, it has it all.
Here are five Youtube-shows that have something extra and will suck you back into spending even more hours in front of your computer.
Ever wanted to see a Ninja answer random questions while talking REALLY FAST? Yes of course you do! Ask a Ninja will definitely jolt you out of your state of boredom. It’s very internet, which means you’ll enjoy it if you spend too much times on forums. Actually it is a bit like reading the comments to some random post about even more random Korean superstars on Ohnotheydidn’t, but BETTER. And with less sparkly gif graphics.
There are a lot of awesome creative people out there on the internets. The girl behind Easy Bake Lovin with Piper is one of them. This “cooking show” on Youtube is definitely a breath of fresh air. Piper’s a sort of hysterical 50s housewife on acid on the look-out for eligible bachelors. Funnier than Bridget Jones. Good for people with short attention spans.
Five awesome girls was a video project between five online friends. Every girl got assigned a day of the week to upload a video and then kept on doing it for a year. Part online reality show, part dialogue between friends, it’s really interesting to watch, especially if you’ve run out of seasons of ANTM. If you want an alternative to traditional reality shows then go back through the girls vlog posts and start watching their show from the beginning.
I’ll keep this section short because you can not not have heard of The Guild. This is one of the first internet shows that bridge the gap between online production and traditional media. Buffy alumni and WoW-geek Felicia Day writes and directs the show about a guild of World of Warcraft players. Funny. But probably only reaches the right levels of awesome if you’re either a WoW-player, Felicia Day-fan or just a regular geek.
5. Will it Blend?
Are you bored? Are you really, really bored? Then there’s nothing better than Will it Blend, a show where... er, different things are put in a blender. It will not challenge your bored brain too much, but you might learn some interesting things. Who knew it was so easy to blend an iPhone. Ah, mindless destruction, sometimes there’s nothing better.
What are your favourite Youtube time killers?
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