TheComfortCorner | V.9

[nickjr]

This is a GIF of a short (1 minute and 14 seconds) YouTube video's "Audience retention" section in Analytics. There's a graph with time on the x-axis and percentage of retained viewers on the y-axis, and it also displays the average view duration. The image is a GIF because the cursor hovers over "Audience retention" to show the following information: "How well your video keeps people watching. Viewership data for each moment of your video can help you to understand how to keep viewers engaged."

So according to this, YouTube tracks which seconds in a video people view.

I am extremely disturbed.

I see nothing about consenting to this kind of tracking in the Terms of Service. And, of course, there's nothing about whether this is purely information or if it impacts anything like whether the video is recommended to others.

This is CS, so I will limit my rant to just this.

On a slightly lighter note, I wish I saw this earlier, because this would definitely prompt some serious discussion among my classmates in one of my classes last semester.

(edit: just to clarify, I'm not surprised. But that doesn't mean I'm not disturbed.)

[astraf]

idk why I just got,, really sad all of a sudden. am I not good enough? do I not make people happy? am I actually really bad at what I do, and I just get pity smiles? will I ever be good? have I ever been good? does my art make others wince or laugh? am I looking at a golden mirror, while others are looking at a broken one? I know I'll never be as good as them, but will I ever be good at all?

[Woebegone]

God, what am I doing here?
What am I doing here?
I don’t deserve to be here.
I don’t want to be here.
I shouldn’t be here.
I’m so tired of this.

[ford]

my dysphoria is so bad.

so so so so so so bad.
i really am just a stupid, delusional girl, aren't i?

(everyone knows it anyway.)

i make no effort to look like a guy. none at all.
long hair. dyed hair. i still like skirts and pretty shirts and it's not helping my case, is it?

never had much of a case to begin with.

i'm never going to pass. always just a silly, silly little girl.

[venti]

I need everyone to read this.

You deserve love!
Stop thinking you don't.


I know this is short, but if you need to talk, my PMs are open ^^

[bubbaberriboo]

x

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[Spearow]

just got the news that a friend i went to school with
is dead, and i don't know how to process it. that's the
second classmate this year

[.bluejay.]

the last 24 hours or so have just been comically terrible, like the kind of day you see in a cartoon where just everything that can go wrong will go wrong. it sucks.

[Howl's Moving Castle]

love having a mental break down on my birthday and crying because im such a bad person apparently according to my bf.