James Finn
1 min readMar 27, 2024

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Me too! I watch YouTube videos about people who sell their homes, buy a sailboat, and travel around the world off grid. My viewing is not just fantasy indulgence; some of these amateur filmmakers are super talented. As I get ready to drift off sleep, I can enjoy a lovely scene of tropical rainforest or desert-island beach. I can swim with manta rays or sharks in crystal waters.

Or maybe I'll watch some music videos by groups I enjoy but who are not mainstream. Very nice wind-down, really.

That is, until YouTube interrupts with messages from Donald Trump, ads for gun paraphernalia (!), drop-dead ridiculous snake-oil medical advice aka conspiracy theory, and other such right-wing nonsense.

That's not even to mention my main YouTube feed ... which, well, let's just say I try to browse only in my subscriptions feed, which spares me a lot of angst.

Talk about broken!

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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