"Watch Me Study" Videos on YouTube. They are Everywhere.

[Mai72]

I don't get the infatuation with watching people study. Is it motivational? Calming? These videos are quite popular.

If you'd like you can watch this person study for 12 hours.

Too long? What about a 4 hour study sesssion with this guy7.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Intense. I guess you'd want to monetize your study time.

 

[SKORPI0]

Any "watch me sleep" videos? Too lazy to check.

Found one.....

 

[ultimatebob]

How many attractive women are doing these?

 

[brianmanahan]

How many attractive women are doing these?

 

[brianmanahan]

i'll admit it, i've always liked those ASMR videos are pretty relaxing even though it's kind of dumb

but at least in those, people are actually doing or saying something

here people are just doing nothing.

you can't make a youtube video about nothing! who would watch that?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lol people will really make videos of anything. I need to get covid again so they let me do a night shift from home, then I can record myself working for 12 hours.

Maybe I can even stream it!

 

[Kaido]

If you'd like you can watch this person study for 12 hours.

I'm curious what the approach is here:

* You have to go to class sometime, so is this like a weekend thing?
* Is this for kids who don't have jobs to pay for school?
* Is it 12 hours of non-stop studying? How does the information gel in your head?

I did really horrible in school (undiagnosed ADHD growing up). It took me until the second half of college to figure out HOW to actually study:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/li4gi3

Now, I take the polar opposite approach: I typically study in very small bites. Sometimes as little as 5 or 15 minutes. Once in awhile I'll do an hour or a few hours, but for me, it's all about consistency over time. I do a lot of studying for ongoing professional development, for my hobbies, etc. but I just use an X-effect chart to help me stay consistent & making progress every day, even though my brain fights me over doing simple things all the time lol. The secret to success is incredibly consistency!

 

[Mai72]

I'm curious what the approach is here:

* You have to go to class sometime, so is this like a weekend thing?
* Is this for kids who don't have jobs to pay for school?
* Is it 12 hours of non-stop studying? How does the information gel in your head?

I did really horrible in school (undiagnosed ADHD growing up). It took me until the second half of college to figure out HOW to actually study:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kaidomac/comments/li4gi3

Now, I take the polar opposite approach: I typically study in very small bites. Sometimes as little as 5 or 15 minutes. Once in awhile I'll do an hour or a few hours, but for me, it's all about consistency over time. I do a lot of studying for ongoing professional development, for my hobbies, etc. but I just use an X-effect chart to help me stay consistent & making progress every day, even though my brain fights me over doing simple things all the time lol. The secret to success is incredibly consistency!

This is the description for the 12 hour video. "A student in amazing Scotland! Data Science MSc at the University of Aberdeen. International Relations MRes student at University of Glasgow, swinging freely between Energy Security, Pipeline Politics and International Law!"

He has a TON of 6 plus hour watch me study videos on his channel. My guess is he's making some serious bank from his YouTube channel, and is doing this a) because he likes long study sessions and b) to make money. I've also seen studies that have shown that working or studying intensely over 4 hours can become unproductive. That you start getting into diminishing returns, because the brain can only take in so much before most people just tire out. Maybe he's the exception? This reminds me of people who go to the gym, and they tell me that they've spent 4 hours doing cardio and weights. 4 hours is a HUGE waste of time in the gym. Concentrated focus 45-1.5hrs (max) is all that y6ou really need,. and tbh 1 hour a day should be enough. A good book on this is Cal Newpot "Deeep Work." He is a tenured college professor, and a professional writer. He gets everything completed by 6pm, and has made it a point to never go beyond this. We have enough time to get stuff done as long as we stay focused.

 

[snoopy7548]

I like these videos, because they don't make me feel so lonely. I have about 10 monitors all around my desk, and each one has a different video of someone studying, so I feel like I'm part of a group.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I recently discovered female body painting videos. Talk about explicit and sexy! Oh man, how do these get past the content police?

 

[KidNiki1]

I like these videos, because they don't make me feel so lonely. I have about 10 monitors all around my desk, and each one has a different video of someone studying, so I feel like I'm part of a group.

not sure if you are serious but..

exactly this. for people who don't have a study group, or want to maybe feel like they are in a library or other study setting, but have anxiety or health issues or any limitation to actually going to a study place, these videos are super helpful. it helps set a mood, it has nice ambience.

 

[Mai72]

Any "watch me sleep" videos? Too lazy to check.

Found one.....

lol, over 9000 comments. There are great educational videos on YT that might get 100 comments. Videos that could help in so many ways. But Nope.

Lets watch some random girl sleep.

 

[IronWing]

One could stream their nanny cams to youtube and let random strangers babysit. The parents would only have to glance at the comments to see what the kids are doing. Heck, set a agent that notifies them when the comment frequency hits a threshold alerting them that the kids are up to something.

 

[pmv]

i'll admit it, i've always liked those ASMR videos are pretty relaxing even though it's kind of dumb

but at least in those, people are actually doing or saying something

here people are just doing nothing.

you can't make a youtube video about nothing! who would watch that?

It's art, don'tcha know?

 

[pmv]

Empire is a pretty well-known Warhol product. I remember when Blue was shown on UK TV, but I didn't watch it because I only had a black-and-white TV then.

 

[Fritzo]

Hey, if people are watching, it's an untapped market.