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I haven't watched yet but I've always said kids these days don't understand how lucky they are to watch shows on demand all the time instead of waiting for commercials and certain times to watch em, it built patience too.

I love the ritual of taking a DVD out of the case and placing it in the tray to watch a movie or show! I even miss the sounds and feelings of putting VHS tapes in the player.

To your comments at the end of the video: I feel that the context of the physical experience is exactly what's missing that turns art, movies, music, and to an extent games, into just content. Personally, I didn't appreciate museums and physical pieces like classical and modern paintings and printed photography until I worked in a museum myself. I was never an "artsy" guy, but after those few years I feel that going to the art and making the tactile, social, and physical aspects front and center is more important than ever. The parts of those experiences we took for granted and removed for the sake of convenience are what hold the majority of the humanity in our experiences.

This is such an amazing video. I found your channel through you fysical media video and i'm so glad I did. I dont think I've ever been this moved by any form of art. Thank you so much for making this. You're amazing.

I remember when they made this argument against records! It completely ruined the ritual of playing music. The record killed the social spaces of lounges where people would once congregate, as people retreated to the convenience of listening to their same 5 favorite songs in their bedrooms.

i see your point, and I fully get it. i miss buying movies with my parents when i was a kid, and though i never got the vinyl and CD experience as a 2006s kid, the idea of it sounds like a good opportunity to meet people who like the same stuff as you. however, as someone who has lived in the global south for my whole life and grew up without much money to go around, there's one thing that the internet provided for me and my friends that would've been impossible otherwise: accessibility. as soon as the internet became a thing my dad learnt to pirate movies, shows, music and books, and a whole entire world that was fully out of our reach was suddenly right there in my dad's old ass laptop and my low quality phone that worked as an ebook for me, i learnt global politics and english mainly through RUclips and free online courses, which would've been impossible without the internet. I think the problem isn't the accessibility itself, because the accessibility makes it so people with no resources and no other way of accessing knowledge, books, movies, finally can do so, instead (I'm going to sound so much like i watch video essays for a living but stay w me here) i think the physicality of things allowed for a connection to happen that is missing, there are no third spaces to hang out in, its practically impossible to meet someone who coincidentally likes the same music as you do unless you're at a listening party, or at a concert. there's less and less chances for us to meet other people organically in real life, which these things (buying movies, vinyls, stuff like that) used to give, and the part of the world that has never really struggled with accessibility will of course miss that more than appreciate the accessibility that the internet provided for millions in the global south (not that the internet's accessibility doesn't have its issues, of course it does, but for a lot of the people around me the benefits outweighed the costs, at least while i was growing up)

The point you make about algorithms making all the decisions strikes me, as it is the "ending" to Persona 5. The thing that you must destroy in the end is in some ways the idea of the algorithm

Aw man. What a throwback. I still have the app downloaded even though it's worthless. I'm glad I once said "favorited for your comment" so I could get a taste of microfame.

I started gravitating back towards physical media in high school (~2012) because the process of consciously making an effort to pick out a record/DVD/CD and set aside time to enjoy it made the whole experience a lot more meaningful.

I miss having to leave the comfort of the couch to change the game disk on the play station 2

ok boomer

Take a moment to visit an actual museum if you haven't. I recently visited one after probably 2 decades. You can see pictures of art like paintings or sculptures easily every day, but seeing the works in person is always a different feeling. And yes, i have a turntable, too.

So #petwallet was mostly people posting pictures of their pets like what you'd keep in your wallet. It was mostly liked for a while until it was hated by just about everyone but so many people tried to upload it became backlogged

There is a discord server still alive! When we started noticing the app was going under we created a server to keep the community alive!

A comment i saw on funny pics that aways stuck with me is. "It's like a show with lame comedians and hilarious hecklers"

You don't find Funny Pics, Funny Pics finds you. You have summoned the cult of Spoons to your channel from the FP discord server. Not everyone hopped ship to the server when FP was discontinued but we have many familiar faces and some lurkers from the app who appeared. It's still a welcoming, fun community (speaking as a former app lurker) P.S. The hatred of iFunny is not in past tense. It is still going strong lol

We were the Straw Hats, and FP was our Merry. :(

FP lives on in the hearts and minds of those who used it, and in the hearts and minds the ones who migrated to the Discord server that just happened to find your video just now

Near the end of 2022, StuckPixel came out of hiding to deliver one last message. A single pic, stating that they had had a blast, but the servers would be shutting down. The community lives on in a new home, with many of us jumping ship to a discord server before the app gave its last breath. It was one person who was a mod for that discord, commenting the discord link on every picture that made it to featured, so that everyone who saw it had a chance to keep in touch. I'm actually here because one of the members of that discord found this video and shared it with the rest of us. Although, The Last Roman seems to be unaware of the discord's existence.

Well wasn't expecting to see a video about FP in 2025 lol. Also there's a community discord that's still pretty active even after the app finally shut down

I know this turtle. It was a constant companion for over ten years. RIP Spoons.

I appreciate accessibility and convenience due to me being both mentally and physically disabled both of it making it much harder to get out and do things whether I need to or just want to. The internet has also helped me via making it easier to identify symptoms and contact healthcare professionals. But I do think that the accessibility of the internet has made me more disabled in a way. While sometimes it helps me get outside, I know I would go outside much more often without it. My social skills would probably be better without it as well as my vocabulary and grammar. Accessibility is important until it starts hurting more than helping, and now the hurting has gone too far. Convenience of the consumer should never override the creativity and craft of the human mind, and somehow people have grown to ignore that and rather harm both human, animal, and the earth. I hope these people that continue to harm our world have a wake up call soon.

Thank you for articulating the sometimes ephemeral notion of engaging with something physically. I agree with everything you presented, and honestly I'm good with convenient options being available, but it shouldn't come at the expense of physical.

I LOVE YOUR LITTLE CREATURE SONA THING..........

This is why I like burning CD-Rs and MiniDiscs. Interacting with my music directly, making custom labels for my collection, and deciding what to put on them rather than an algorithm makes me connect with music on a more personal level.

Ok I gotta give you a massive like for showing Phobia by Breaking Benjamin :) One of my all time favorite albums and bands!

It’s the casual human connection in a place and deliberate choosing of physical media for me

Love the video, and appreciate your POV. I think most tech is packaged and sold to us with the promise of improving our lives. With time, you often realize that it creates an entirely new set of problems. There are very few real improvements, only trade-offs.

Absolutely beautifully made video, but I'm going to have to VEHEMENTLY disagree with your thoughts on this topic. I hope you and anyone who thinks like you are able to read this. I agree with your doubts you voiced at the end of your video, have you placed too much importance in the physicality of moments? I think yes, yes you did. Let me ask you, if you were a human who for some reason could not partake in these "rituals", but instead found your own "rituals" online, would that make your experience worse than someone who experienced them in person? No right? They're both real experiences, real rituals... real feelings. The turntable spinning isn't important to someone who can't feel it's touch, but the music played by it can be enjoyed all the same. These little rituals that you miss, they still exist. Transformed to fit the digital landscape we currently live in. For example, there's a concept album, made by Jorge Rivera-Herrans retelling the tale of Odysseus in musical form. It has no physical existence, save for the people who made it with tender care. It's "life" is on the internet. Every single time a new "saga" aka album is released, telling a new chapter of Odysseus's trials, it isn't a lonely experience. Far from it. People make videos of it, reacting to it. Edits of various works of entertainment using the music in said saga, threading the line between various communities and making people have these bonding experiences that blur the lines of a community. Animations of the saga, art of what transpires in the words sung beautifully, odes and poems, writing. People talking and in a buzz, all sharing their love for this arguably niche thing. I know for a fact, I would have never found this piece of work without it's life being predominantly in these convenient places you have disdain for. I found it out via TikTok, and was able to easily access every saga at a moment's touch with little trouble. I found people talking about it just as easily, and found the work of fans to revel in just the same. It's existence itself, is due to the convenient time we live in. This isn't a traditional musical, there are no tapes, no recordings to be sold. This was an indie project that garnered attention that far exceeds anything it could have hoped to achieve when constrained by the chains of the past you find so loving. This is just *one* example. I could go on and on about these experiences that can only exist due to the convenience, not in spite of it. Indie games like Doki Doki Literature Club, Undertale. ARGs like the SCP of the flesh pit. Pages and pages of community chatter, fan creations and loving recreations of even the most niche of subjects. This channel itself, this video itself is a testament to that idea. I don't know you. I would have never had a chance to meet you, let alone sit down and listen to you talk about this kind of topic so passionately. And yet, here I am, fervently responding to your video because you lit a fire under me to do so. These things aren't dying, far from it. It's just changed to fit the age we live in. Old rituals won't die, it still exists between friends and neighbours. Instead, the advent of convenience has open the doors to more of these cute rituals we partake in, not close them.

Funny thing about this is how in Star Trek Voyager one of the characters on Voyager is into an ancient Earth TV show and has a TV that he watches it on and goes out to the holodeck to act out stories from. Maybe there's something there for us to think about! Heck, I'm older than you and I find myself between worlds, so to speak. I still love my CDs and have a receiver I need to set up so I can play my records on my old Technics SL-DL 5 linear tracking turntable. I also have my old cassette tapes and the 4 track reel-to-reel deck I recorded my Folk Rock 2 piece Red Hound on back in the early 90s. And while I might find the cassettes and LPs interesting as I try to get going again on my music I have decided to go digital and faced the steep learning curve of an over 32 year space between to learn how to do it. Here the convenience makes sense to me, especially with all the things I can do with free plugins that would have been electronic boxes costing hundreds of dollars back when. I think it's more a question of pick and chose. Granted, our overarching economic metaphor doesn't always give us the FREEDOM of that choice (because they can't always make a profit that way now can they!?) but it's best to take that option when and where we can and maybe that could be a way of taking choice back into our hands on a larger scale and living more fulfilling lives.

I always been into vinyls until when I move to the house I was in before where I live now. After the move, I never set-up the turntable, and it stayed tucked away for 10 years (I never intended to stay there that long). Now, I moved in a new place and did set-up the turntable and I haven't listen to so much music in a decade. Once I relied on digital media, I slowly stopped listen to music. I would spend too much time choosing what to listen to from endless options, and then, when I finally settle on something, I would skip songs midways, or skip multiple times in a row until I reach the one song I wanted to listen. With vinyls, I do have a large collection, but it is still quite limited (now, expanding again). I can choose what I want to listen to in seconds, and then, I can just put the disc on and relax. I don't feel the need to micro-manage my listening experience song by song. Also, the album has a nice finality to it; you let one side play, flip it over if you want more music, and then, it end. You can out another album if you want, or you could decide you consumed enough music for now.

We are physical people who really live in a physical world. Today I was building a model glider out of balsa wood, I could have bought one ready made. Instead I interacted with it, cutting the wood and glueing it together, I may eventually fly it. When I first heard of the virtual world I was horrified. How can an image on a screen replace visiting somewhere or picking up an object? I have a turntable too and enjoy owning an interacting with the art, even cleaning the records when they get dirty and won't play properly. We seem to be obsessed with innovating ourselves out of existence. We need to step back and take stock.

This is a great conversation and set of insights. To dig deeper, think about how the unconstrained primacy of the profit motive and the will to power of the few has driven the addiction to conveniences. As everyday things have gotten "easy", the number of people making massive profits off it has shrunk. For example, thousands of local record store owners and video rental places were first replaced by a few corporate behemoths owning them all ... then the behemoths figured out how to do away with the physical locations and the local employees all together and just have a handful of technology people somewhere running a vast attention and money generating network for them. Reed Hastings at Netflix ends up with the power and wealth concentrated in his hands which once would have been spread amongst thousands of local shop owners. Jeff Bezos has accumulated to himself the wealth and power which once was distributed amongst hundreds of thousands of local, regional and national store owner/managers. "Convenience" for the many has taken the souls and socials lives of the many and given unimaginable wealth, influence and control to a very few.

I have similar feels about YikYak, RIP.

1:00 AMAZING 🤣

I want to sincerely thank you for making this video, as soon as you mentioned the game was free i played it all in one sitting, and i appreciate that you left out enough that someone playing the game after watching the video would still get a few surprises. The game and your video spoke to me as it has quite a few others and i find your interpretation interesting, especially so given the information about yourself given at the very end, how your interpretation was seemingly shaped similar to your experiences. As someone who has not yet found their way out of the depressive pit, i realize that my interpretation; that being that ollie is an imagined person, a desperate fiction of jon's mind to try to keep himself going, and a personalization of the motivation and clarity that jon could have possessed earlier in life, which ultimately fails to stave off suicide. Has also been shaped by the existence i have witnessed, and i wonder that if i find a way out of the depressive pit my interpretation would change. (i would also want to make it clear that this isnt a cry for help, and that whomever is reading this should feel obligated to offer aid) (im also sorry for dampening things with my rather downtrodden interpretation) I also relate greatly to the feeling of ruining a piece of art by relating it to themselves ( 53:55 ), and the evny of someone else having, seemingly effortlessly, the capacity to create something beautiful and meaningful. (though maybe that envy part is just me projecting, it probably is) Final part of this overly long comment, promise, i would like to know your interpretation of the hidden "sad fantasy" book, which is found in chapter 10 by returning where you first appeared in ollie's world when ollie goes to make hot chocolate.

Capitalism flattens all, it blends all spaces and invades and commodifies every facet of human existence. Until we overturn this system, this process of convenience and mass production will continue and we will be increasingly alienated from our work, our art, ourselves, and eachother. But overturning the system means getting off our asses and doing something: much harder than suckling at the slop hose.

"What would I gain if my phone could produce the smell of a rose without me having to visit a garden?" That sentence hit me HARD. I enjoy the convenience of modern times, but I miss that *je ne sais quois* that they did away with. Every thing, in excess, isn't as good as it could be - or so it's said. I think it's the same with convenience. That and probably I'm also a 30-something year old nostalgic xD

where did this original engaging new youtuber even come from? awesome stuff

I’m 20 I have the same thoughts. I’m not big enough into music to get a record player and records (by that I mean I spend too much money on other stuff) but I do prefer to get my video games physically I know that with some of the more powerful consoles that they still can’t just be played on their own but i feel like I own the games I have physically more than the ones I have digitally. For example I feel like I own my copy of ff XVI but more that I just have access to tales of arise if that makes sense. I also prefer some of my shows and movies to be physical like I prefer to have the blu ray releases of InuYasha even though it’s all on RUclips at the moment.

14:40 I spent hundreds on my records/turntable just so I could physically own the music that got me through hard times. I cherish them more than Spotify

Every level of separation from the act of creation and of experiencing a work usually removes an aspect. A painting usually has 3 dimensionality, the colors change depending on where you stand and can't ever fully be captured by a digital picture of one. A concert sounds and feels different than on your phone, the sounds are more nuanced and you feel the bass, an analog recording like a record is more faithful than a digital one but still loses nuance. To most though it doesn't matter, we can't see the nuance, feel the difference. We can't tell that a record has better sound quality just from hearing it, see what makes a painting special.

Ironic my algorithm suggested me this 🧐

dude as a 16-year-old you articulated a lot of the problems i have with modern tech very nicely. i grew up with CDs and DVDs alongside the early iPods and iPads and it’s so odd to have seen everything be slowly phased out. i kind of hate streaming services and almost never watch movies because the doomscroll aspect drives me mad. i’m trying to kick social media a bit too just because i’m so tired of that “convenience” aspect that genuinely disconnects you from everything. People have got to learn to care more

Hi Meckles, I wanted to say thanks for the video. As a lot of people have already said, this one hit close to home. I think you did a great analysis on it and cant wait for your next video. You've quickly become my favorite RUclipsr to watch. I think your videos are extremely well-made and tragically underrated. Rant aside, thanks for making the great content that you do and i look forward to the next one ❤

Bro, there's so many 10/10 quotes in here.

8:16 holy fuck dude.. I'm literally crying real tears. fuck... 🌹

Sorry if my English is not perfect, I'm not a native speaker. However, this video has honestly reached me deeper (together with the one you made about the importance of inconvenience) than any other digital media I've seen lately. I love that you make this videos because you love to make them (although you obviously want the channel to grow too) and I hope that you keep the same passion for a long time. I'd also for your channel to blow up, both for the message and specially for you to enjoy it. Just keep making these, and just do them about what you like (you mentioned in one of your videos that you hadn't found your niche yet). And just to let you know, this all comes from a Spanish 24 year old who is currently struggling to see hope in the future of the world (at least the "western" or "global-north" countries). Both the themes on your videos and the approach you have to them are pessimistic and optimistic at the same time, but I find it very soothing to see that people have the same preoccupations as I do, and that despite you see a difficult future, you still focus on the things but why they are and what they take to do, and not only the end product. I probably got a bit lost while writing, but I mainly want to say that I'd love to see you keeping up the good work on these videos (at least while you enjoy it) and I hope that the algorithm will keep posting them on my feed.

29 year old guy here. This video nearly moved me to tears. It put a name and a description to something that's been bugging me for a while, and now I have a way to explain why some things nowadays just feel... Empty.