I legit was in meltdown and felt like I couldn't calm down. I decided to watch a RUclips video and eat a pear... and now i feel much calmer... I think I'm cool to clean up the dishes, before the gnats multiply from leftover food stuffs.
2025: "Did you know Noah used to do something called video essays? To think he went from such humble beginnings to the worlds most popular dishwashing streamer. Anyways, wanna go blow up some more pipelines?"
I love this. As a fellow ND, the amount of "motivational" or "That Girl" content online is insane, but there's absolutely none for people like us. I'm happy that you're on this platform, bro
I like the self help stuff. I get lost in my mind palace & forget i cant have praxis if im bed rotting. The world i dream of needs someone to bake the bricks or at least be speaking the dream into reality. Thanks for doing the dishes with me :)
Sometimes it can be so difficult to “create things in reality”, so that’s actually pretty cool to be making the effort. It is so amazing to just interact with our communities at all and really it does make an impact
omg noah i have been wanting to do stuff like this for years! i will join your plight. watching leftist content during chores legit helped me so much for the past 7 years after i quit heroin and had really bad self esteem issues. i think that this could genuinely be helpful
I swear I was just thinking yesterday about whether self-help videos could ever be created in a way that didn't also get into a kind of reactionary, "personal responsibility" ethic, which i feel can be discouraging for some (including myself). I've been pretty depressed this past week as i dealt with some medication issues. I saw this video and decided to do the dishes while it played. Now, i feel like i've accomplished at least one thing today. Thank you!
I also run my water at a low pressure while I wash my dishes because I feel like dipping them back into water they are all soaking in doesn't give a clean rinse, like it re-dirties them 😅
@@mightymeatymech me and my mum do it because it washes our dishes well, not because we are lazy. Lazy is a non word BTW and not very friendly 😅 Please just don't
In two sided sinks like these I like to fill one with soapy water to soak dirty dishes in as like a pre-rinse and then I'll actually clean and finish rinsing them in the unfilled side so I don't have to have the water constantly running.
I personally like the para-social thing, in so far as like... you share your thoughts while doing tasks. It functions similarly to body-doubling. I am incredibly more productive in ways that don't force me to dissociate through my tasks, when I have even 1 other person around to interact with simultaneously. I often ask, 'Can you help me do dishes later?" and that actually just means, "will you sit in the kitchen with me while I do dishes?". Now I do have like... adhd, dpdr, asd etc... and with dpdr especially, I find engagement helps keep me grounded. Even when the other person isn't actively engaging with me, like, go ahead and scroll insta hun, you are giving me life by being present and letting me talk at you (or listen to you). Idk, I'm ND and that encompasses a wide range of things, so maybe this is too specific an experience to be broadly helpful.
i like what you said about online community. i’m disabled so it is much easier for me to build community online rather than in person. (i still build IRL community, it’s just much harder.) i also agree that a lot of content is very individualistic but if it keeps someone like me (a mentally ill person) alive and continuing on with life, then it has value. we can’t dismantle if we’re dead. great video:)
I like this idea! Maybe a weekly 'clean my house with me' would be a step towards a consistent schedule? I try and do a Big Clean once a week, tidying and hoovering/sweeping and laundry and stuff.
This was such a nice video to come home and watch after my shift. Just chill out and eat my soup and watch you wash dishes and talk. Genuinely lovely homie
Hi! Very new subscriber here. From a Black Feminist perspective, self care always has been vitally important to revolutionary causes. Angela Davis talks a lot about how self care kept her sane during prison. Of course, self care has become more about what you buy rather than what you do. That being said, I’m enjoying watching you DO so far! Of course, there is monetary incentive in making content of it, but the same could be said in writing a book or being hired for a lecture. We all gotta eat! I love self care/self help that relates to specific communities ex. adhd, Black revolutionaries, artists, etc, and includes educations and action. I’m excited to see how your channel fits into all that. ✊🏽
I think self help content works well when you have a specific goal. like you are always gonna make stuff unique to you, you don't have to follow a template other people made. you can do things your own way
I don’t think self-help is objectively bad but a lot of it is approached from a “I have all the answers and I’ll tell you what to do” type of way which sucks. Everyone is a work in progress and there is no real end point where you can truly fix all your problems. But we do all have stuff to work on. Even in the best possible future utopia, the need for some types of chores and doing silly little tasks will not disappear. I have trouble with executive functioning and stuff like this serves as a kind of “body doubling” that helps me get stuff done. I constantly slide in and out of having a super messy space depending on what else is going on in my life. I’m always trying to remind myself that cleaning for 10 minutes is better than not cleaning at all. So I got some stuff done while this video played :)
people think self help is tony robbins, or jp. but self help can be therapy, or sobriety, or researching your mental health problems, or going on hrt. it shouldn't be your sole focus, but every organizer says you can't effectively help others if you're not taking care of yourself.
People with ADHD and other neurotypical challenges often need "body doubles" in order to execute tasks big and small. Doubling is just like being in the same space as another person, bonus points if they're also doing the kind of things you need to do like cleaning, reading, writing, etc. I think that is at the core of what you're trying to describe here! And even people who ID as neurotypical probably find comfort, hence the popularity of this vloggy content!
Lifestyle content has become some of my absolute favorite, and i don’t think it has to be “self help” unless you are actively trying to make it that. Your gym content was really motivating when I was starting my fitness journey, and with love Kristina’s content helped me figure out a house cleaning schedule that I can actually stick to. But neither of your content has ever come across as self help by any means
I like this kind of content mostly cause of the people I listen to. I could honestly hear you talk about anything for minutes on end. It's rather relaxing and perfect for putting on in the background while I do stuff. It doesn't have to be something profound or really motivating. Just something to pass the time and help remind us that we're not alone in this. There's alot of videos I watch where I already know most of the points they're gonna make but I still like to watch it anyways since it's a good break from the constant gaslighting we experience irl. Please do more of this if you like!
I’m very politically active and an organizer! When my mental health isn’t there and I’m not taking care of myself I am less able to do my activism! You are spot on imo and I personally benefit from your videos
Wow, glad I found this. Always felt that even when I critique some self help stuff (in particular, ppl selling b.s products), sometimes, motivational content does what it sets out to do
I just got home from work and was about to avoid the dishes and then this video came up as recommended. 15 minutes later my sink is empty. Thanks Noah! I fully support this type of content in whatever way it works for you. It was like we did the dishes together.
see i don’t like traditional self help stuff, but this reminded me to get out of bed, wash my face, and brush my teeth before sleeping. so thank you :)
I don't think self help and lifestyle content have to be the same thing. I responded to your self help question saying I really only like it from professionals, but i also do consume lifestyle content. Lifestyle content to me has a different purpose. It's very soothing and makes me feel calm and like I can get out of the ruts and maladaptive patterns in my life because somebody else is living differently than me
Love the shoutout to Pleasure Activism! I’m developing a one-time event for my fellow DSA chapter members to facilitate a workshop on how to find pleasure and joy even as we’re working together to build a better world, and it’s based off of that book. Great video Noah, and enjoy your time in Thailand 😊
Videos like these are helpful to someone like me who doesn’t have a solid routine, it makes me want to actually get up and do things. Specifically, I find that cleaning up my room or even just my desk relieves stress and it puts me in the mind frame of wanting to work on my video editing because, when my work space is clean, I’m able to focus easier. So thanks for these. I also like that this is a lot more candid, it feels more genuine if that makes sense.
I think its important to have a present self improvement resource for leftist online politics actually, especially in the 2020's now that we're inundated with doom and pessimism. We've strayed too far from the swagger and cohesion the 60's and 70's offered with hippie and punk aesthetics. they're a rallying cry for us. we tend to instinctively dismiss optics and its value on the left (somewhat justifiably) cause to its social violence against minorities but i think we made a bit of an overcorrection, the 2010's evolved the alt rightoid from skin head bozo to composed 'intellectual', and with zoomers slowly making up the forefront of online and irl socio-politics we have a chance to capitalise on this new wave. the early to mid 2020's will be and is 100% defined by a pull to the community offered by aesthetic, and a more nuanced approach to self help (especially working out, which is refreshing to see how appreciated and compassionate our take on exercise is). I doubt it'll be taken too openly cause it is kind of adapting right wing communing tactics for our own, but it does work.
I might catch some flak for this in the comments, but honestly a countertop dishwasher completely changed the game for me. Even though they're not like CRAZY expensive as far as appliances go, I still couldn't afford one for a really long time, and as much as I don't like using Amazon, a buddy of mine recommended the Prime Store card, which you can use to split large payments into 6 monthly ones with no APR, and I hate to say it, but it did help a lot. If you have the money, or you can finance it without worrying about your credit score, I would strongly recommend getting one. My kitchen has never been cleaner, and I have more energy to do other, better things with my time
Self-help has to be tailored to each individual and the person making is content often just speaks on what helped them. Most of it has not aligned with me, but that doesn't been it's not good information (or helpful to others). i just enjoy your voice haha. keep up the good vids, Noah.
This was really great - as someone that doesn't have the ability to do much in the US or the UK physically as I live in Japan, a part of me always felt hypocritical for being a leftist that doesn't do much active on-the-ground work. But it's good to remember that every little helps, and even the random videos can help towards a bigger change. I've been wanting to get into some health and beauty stuff more on Instagram, but didn't think it made sense. This has given me the final kick I needed - so there ya go, that's one more thing you've inspired. Keep doing what you're doing, Noah. You're helping a lotta peeps. X
I love this! I like the body doubling aspect. It also makes it easier to start a task cause someone else basically did the hard part to start already! The discussion was also nice. It's the same way I talk so it made my brain happy!
A man who does his dishes and doesn't wait for his girlfriend to come over and do them. Gold. Noah I'd love to hear your thoughts on Bill Hicks. Or even a movie review of American the Bill Hicks story. Thanks
I used to live in a small illegal apartment and got a counter top dishwasher. Was lifechanging and my water bill went down. But had to find a place to hide it when I didnt need it.
This morning I looked at the state of my kitchen and turned away because watering my plants have been on my to do list for 3 weeks now so why not procrastinate the kitchen instead. Once I put your video up I started to clean up my kitchen because "we're doing this toguether". So thank you 💕
I've just finished my dishes while listening to this. And I'm absolutely behind more leftist self-help content, or hell, more leftist content that isn't inherently political. This can be a good way to a) bring more people into lefty ideas indirectly, and maybe in a way that is not as intimidating, and that humanizes us as people. I don't think anyone of us is ONLY their ideology. b) make it a nice space for people who enjoy that content, especially if the biggest creators in that market are right wing or scummy (sigmarxism, for leftists that enjoy Warhammer 40K is a great example) c) Just helpful/entertaining in general. So I'm behind lefty self-help. Might not be for everyone, but no content is.
i have been struggling with chores since past few months, i forget to eat or have no motivation to leave my room... i've been trying to get my life on track. I put it on just because i love your content but this was such an effective call to action, it gave me that push that i struggle so much to find daily, so thank you so much
I find that this content gives me motivation to clean when I need to which can be super helpful when I'm in the pits. I suppose when someone else has already said "I'm struggling with this and having you here helps" it feels easier to share in that and do your cleaning tasks too.
Refilled my humidifier, changed my furnace filter, folded some laundry, decided on the book I'll start reading tonight, and absolutely CRUSHED the subscribe button
Realistic self-help content from a fellow ADHD haver? I would consume. Noah, you are right in that these things could evoke something big; giving people some tools to help take control of their lives is important not only in a health sense, but also in gaining confidence. There is a lot of "self=help" like content that is unobtainable or unrealistic. Some is also just straight vibes and we watch it during sadboi midnight snacktime hours. I think you would do very good self-help content, so I am all for it.
I used to be a depressed "guy" and I would've probably fallen for self help grifts before I was 16 but then I figured out It was dysphoria, and now I've got tibbies and I'm watching the latest in leftist content. what a way to be
I will say, I watched your general cleaning up the apartment video, and it helped me to clean my room for the first time in a long time. This kind of thing works well for me. Thank you so much for posting.
yeah makes sense, i listened to this on sunday morning while doing chores, also helped me get back into the swing of listening to stuff and doing chores. thanks!
i'm not one of your long time viewers or anything, i just saw this video on my recommended, but i find self-help content pretty helpful. i think it really depends on the person- for some people it does nothing or maybe even makes them feel worse, but for people like me, it's exactly what i'm looking for, and i both enjoy and learn from self help. i get why some people don't like it, but i am motivated to "help myself" i guess so i really like this stuff. also i agree with your point about community.
This just so perfectly helped me with my complicated feelings loving semi soullless productivity motivation aesthetic videos and my awareness that it’s just preying on continuing the delusion that our struggles are individual and we can both be fulfilled and have our 9-5 if we just have a 5-9 before etc etc
I loved this video, it came to my recommended videos at the right time. I managed to start to clean my apartment, still feel like crap but at least I've done something today
I like hearing your thoughts somewhat unfiltered. I don't really need the motivation stuff, but clearly others in the comments section do so I say go for it.
As someone who has consumed self-help content in the past it definitely can make an impact but the person has to actually want to change their life. Ignoring the "self" is something that happens a lot and instead of improving yourself you're consuming the content and just talking a big game. These gurus validate that by saying how great the community is and how there's so many people improving their lives. But they're mostly the same, just with a bigger ego. Those who actually take the advice and improve their daily lives don't stick around because it doesn't really take that much to improve your life when you're motivated to do so. I hope you get some motivated people looking to learn and improve. Because you can give a good left perspective.
i think this is a vid i needed, i have been hoarding dishes and been really ashamed of talking about it to people because i thought it was just me with a counter that stacked, its in a way very nice seeing that noah also has dishes stacked and i'm not a total degenerate
I don’t know what it says about me that I got distracted, and was focusing on his cleaning techniques. 9/10. cleaning the sink is so satisfying. 🤦♀️ this reminds me of old RUclips, and is wholesome as shit, but also keeping it real. Also loving the humble brag about Fiq. I loved everything about this. Saved my week.
This is adorable and makes me happy and motivated to do my own dishes. You're a cool person with a beautiful personality and I'm excited for more content like this. I'm mostly just happy to hear the ramblings, it's just kinda cozy.
I definitely find this type of thing helpful for me. I think the honest discussion about balancing wellbeing with doing stuff like organising is important. It can really hard sometimes and just being able to hear someone else put words to the thoughts feelings I have is grounding. It helps give me permission to take care of myself without devaluing the importance of trying to make change and take part in political action.
Hi! Just wanted to share this helped me do my dishes as well, and because I watched some of your others you have posted later on this channel first (ie breadtube bedroom cleaning bonanza) I was also able to make myself lunch and take out my trash! Loved these videos!
You should get a countertop dishwasher! It hooks right into your sink and it honestly helped me so much because washing dishes makes me feel like I'm gonna die so if I can just pop them in there, I actually get clean stuff!
Also, check out Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha's book the future is disabled. She has a chapter on pleasure activism that talks about this kinda stuff (and all her work is massively slept on by mainstream folk)
idk about self help channels but videos like these help me a lot, watching just a cool guy yap and clean his dishes makes me want to do my dishes as well (thats probably that sense of community you were talking about, sharing our struggles and taking baby steps together) or posting a videos of you in the gym and talking about how it can get hard sometimes but youre here, seeing you make progress makes me want to take that first step as well and to your point about activism and politics, ive been wanting to do more for the world and community since 2020 but ive been in a constant burnout for a few years and only now, bcuz of watching content like yours or hasan's etc ive slowly built the courage to work on myself and in turn have the mental and physical capacity to make actual change and organize at the end of the day its always nice to have content like that to fall back on
This is great and more people should do this to help others with chores, having buddies is the best way to do these type of menial tasks. But as someone who has taken care of dishes since prepubescence I'm having a hard time watching you do them in single file, one fork at a time. Props for cleaning your sink, a surprising amount of people don't.
hey noah, this is the first video of you that im watching, im from Argentina (thats why my english sucks lol) n the economical situation is very difficult for us and also i am struggling with a lot lately, but your video just appears in time i guess. i have the same thoughts you talk abt in the video, kinda strange since i didnt know you till now, but im glad, i mean you give me in just 12 minutes a kinda feeling of relief. thank u man. i dont usually coment on videos, but i wanted u to know that u are doing something good for us n i hope this comment do something good (virtually at least) for u and for anyone reading it. thats community
Homie, this may be more of those anecdotal unquantifiable comments but I can't tell you how much I have been wanting and honestly NEEDING content like this. It helps me a ton but I hate the reactionary nature of most of the channels that make this type of content, so seeing this content from someone who has good politics I agree with and acknowledges what the real problems are and that this individualistic approach won't fix the issues, BUT it can and does help some of us that need and want this content is super helpful. Seriously thanks dude. If you consistently post videos I will consistently watch them and it will GENUINELY help me out. So just another vote for more of this community.
i like to hear noah yap while he does his small little tasks
I like to hear him yap while I do my own small little tasks
i like ur funny guzzling name
The little moustache man doing the little moustache man stuff, quality content ™
ikr look at him live his life
I legit was in meltdown and felt like I couldn't calm down. I decided to watch a RUclips video and eat a pear... and now i feel much calmer... I think I'm cool to clean up the dishes, before the gnats multiply from leftover food stuffs.
Dude I needed a dish buddy so bad today. I literally had no plates or cutlery left. Please make this a regular thing.
2025: "Did you know Noah used to do something called video essays? To think he went from such humble beginnings to the worlds most popular dishwashing streamer. Anyways, wanna go blow up some more pipelines?"
I love this. As a fellow ND, the amount of "motivational" or "That Girl" content online is insane, but there's absolutely none for people like us.
I'm happy that you're on this platform, bro
I always find some I like but after a few videos they start upholding patriarchal norms or talking about the grind.
We’re making it into a healthy conducive daily routine with this one boys
We doing the dishes we’ve been putting off since last night to this one
I like the self help stuff. I get lost in my mind palace & forget i cant have praxis if im bed rotting. The world i dream of needs someone to bake the bricks or at least be speaking the dream into reality. Thanks for doing the dishes with me :)
“Cuntry girls make dew”
-Noah, 2024
Sometimes it can be so difficult to “create things in reality”, so that’s actually pretty cool to be making the effort. It is so amazing to just interact with our communities at all and really it does make an impact
omg noah i have been wanting to do stuff like this for years! i will join your plight. watching leftist content during chores legit helped me so much for the past 7 years after i quit heroin and had really bad self esteem issues. i think that this could genuinely be helpful
Leftist recovering addicts unite! 🤜
I swear I was just thinking yesterday about whether self-help videos could ever be created in a way that didn't also get into a kind of reactionary, "personal responsibility" ethic, which i feel can be discouraging for some (including myself). I've been pretty depressed this past week as i dealt with some medication issues. I saw this video and decided to do the dishes while it played. Now, i feel like i've accomplished at least one thing today. Thank you!
I also run my water at a low pressure while I wash my dishes because I feel like dipping them back into water they are all soaking in doesn't give a clean rinse, like it re-dirties them 😅
same and if it makes you feel any better, i washed dishes professionally for years lol. never would i ever rinse them off in the soak sink
@@mightymeatymech me and my mum do it because it washes our dishes well, not because we are lazy. Lazy is a non word BTW and not very friendly 😅
Please just don't
@@Potinthepocket i use lazy as a word because i am learning to accept my 'lazy' habits as healthy for me, i'm sorry that it offended you though
In two sided sinks like these I like to fill one with soapy water to soak dirty dishes in as like a pre-rinse and then I'll actually clean and finish rinsing them in the unfilled side so I don't have to have the water constantly running.
I personally like the para-social thing, in so far as like... you share your thoughts while doing tasks. It functions similarly to body-doubling. I am incredibly more productive in ways that don't force me to dissociate through my tasks, when I have even 1 other person around to interact with simultaneously. I often ask, 'Can you help me do dishes later?" and that actually just means, "will you sit in the kitchen with me while I do dishes?". Now I do have like... adhd, dpdr, asd etc... and with dpdr especially, I find engagement helps keep me grounded. Even when the other person isn't actively engaging with me, like, go ahead and scroll insta hun, you are giving me life by being present and letting me talk at you (or listen to you). Idk, I'm ND and that encompasses a wide range of things, so maybe this is too specific an experience to be broadly helpful.
Also ND and my favorite way to clean my room is to have a friend just sit on my bed and talk to me and watch videos while I clean lol
Honestly, I'm starting to believe that a lot of neurodivergents aren't really sick but not made for our modern world
i like what you said about online community. i’m disabled so it is much easier for me to build community online rather than in person. (i still build IRL community, it’s just much harder.) i also agree that a lot of content is very individualistic but if it keeps someone like me (a mentally ill person) alive and continuing on with life, then it has value. we can’t dismantle if we’re dead. great video:)
I like this idea! Maybe a weekly 'clean my house with me' would be a step towards a consistent schedule? I try and do a Big Clean once a week, tidying and hoovering/sweeping and laundry and stuff.
Omg. I was looking for something to watch while doing my dishes! Thanks for the morning distraction. Another chore complete!
"hey HEY stop [eating that]!"
'meoW'
i'm very familiar with this song and dance
This was such a nice video to come home and watch after my shift. Just chill out and eat my soup and watch you wash dishes and talk. Genuinely lovely homie
Hi! Very new subscriber here. From a Black Feminist perspective, self care always has been vitally important to revolutionary causes. Angela Davis talks a lot about how self care kept her sane during prison. Of course, self care has become more about what you buy rather than what you do.
That being said, I’m enjoying watching you DO so far! Of course, there is monetary incentive in making content of it, but the same could be said in writing a book or being hired for a lecture. We all gotta eat!
I love self care/self help that relates to specific communities ex. adhd, Black revolutionaries, artists, etc, and includes educations and action. I’m excited to see how your channel fits into all that. ✊🏽
I think self help content works well when you have a specific goal. like you are always gonna make stuff unique to you, you don't have to follow a template other people made. you can do things your own way
I don’t think self-help is objectively bad but a lot of it is approached from a “I have all the answers and I’ll tell you what to do” type of way which sucks. Everyone is a work in progress and there is no real end point where you can truly fix all your problems. But we do all have stuff to work on.
Even in the best possible future utopia, the need for some types of chores and doing silly little tasks will not disappear. I have trouble with executive functioning and stuff like this serves as a kind of “body doubling” that helps me get stuff done. I constantly slide in and out of having a super messy space depending on what else is going on in my life. I’m always trying to remind myself that cleaning for 10 minutes is better than not cleaning at all. So I got some stuff done while this video played :)
people think self help is tony robbins, or jp. but self help can be therapy, or sobriety, or researching your mental health problems, or going on hrt. it shouldn't be your sole focus, but every organizer says you can't effectively help others if you're not taking care of yourself.
People with ADHD and other neurotypical challenges often need "body doubles" in order to execute tasks big and small. Doubling is just like being in the same space as another person, bonus points if they're also doing the kind of things you need to do like cleaning, reading, writing, etc. I think that is at the core of what you're trying to describe here! And even people who ID as neurotypical probably find comfort, hence the popularity of this vloggy content!
There's also Internet Shaquille's seminal work, "How to Wash Dishes Without Hating Every Moment of It"
I got out of my desk and did the dishes while watching this. Thank you
Lifestyle content has become some of my absolute favorite, and i don’t think it has to be “self help” unless you are actively trying to make it that. Your gym content was really motivating when I was starting my fitness journey, and with love Kristina’s content helped me figure out a house cleaning schedule that I can actually stick to. But neither of your content has ever come across as self help by any means
I like this kind of content mostly cause of the people I listen to. I could honestly hear you talk about anything for minutes on end. It's rather relaxing and perfect for putting on in the background while I do stuff. It doesn't have to be something profound or really motivating. Just something to pass the time and help remind us that we're not alone in this. There's alot of videos I watch where I already know most of the points they're gonna make but I still like to watch it anyways since it's a good break from the constant gaslighting we experience irl. Please do more of this if you like!
I’m very politically active and an organizer! When my mental health isn’t there and I’m not taking care of myself I am less able to do my activism! You are spot on imo and I personally benefit from your videos
Please keep making these videos. Thanks so much. So relatable.
Wow, glad I found this. Always felt that even when I critique some self help stuff (in particular, ppl selling b.s products), sometimes, motivational content does what it sets out to do
I just got home from work and was about to avoid the dishes and then this video came up as recommended. 15 minutes later my sink is empty. Thanks Noah! I fully support this type of content in whatever way it works for you. It was like we did the dishes together.
see i don’t like traditional self help stuff, but this reminded me to get out of bed, wash my face, and brush my teeth before sleeping. so thank you :)
I don't think self help and lifestyle content have to be the same thing. I responded to your self help question saying I really only like it from professionals, but i also do consume lifestyle content. Lifestyle content to me has a different purpose. It's very soothing and makes me feel calm and like I can get out of the ruts and maladaptive patterns in my life because somebody else is living differently than me
Love the shoutout to Pleasure Activism! I’m developing a one-time event for my fellow DSA chapter members to facilitate a workshop on how to find pleasure and joy even as we’re working together to build a better world, and it’s based off of that book. Great video Noah, and enjoy your time in Thailand 😊
Videos like these are helpful to someone like me who doesn’t have a solid routine, it makes me want to actually get up and do things. Specifically, I find that cleaning up my room or even just my desk relieves stress and it puts me in the mind frame of wanting to work on my video editing because, when my work space is clean, I’m able to focus easier. So thanks for these. I also like that this is a lot more candid, it feels more genuine if that makes sense.
i broke all the dishes and am fully invested
this is the stuff i didn't know i needed in my life
i was skeptical until you said "country girls make do", and now im all in.
Gonna wait to watch this till i want to do my dishes
you: haven't watched my alwsome video
the fruit fly that's been feasting on the leftovers from your sink dishes for two days straight: 🤰🏻😋🤤🍽️
I think its important to have a present self improvement resource for leftist online politics actually, especially in the 2020's now that we're inundated with doom and pessimism. We've strayed too far from the swagger and cohesion the 60's and 70's offered with hippie and punk aesthetics. they're a rallying cry for us. we tend to instinctively dismiss optics and its value on the left (somewhat justifiably) cause to its social violence against minorities but i think we made a bit of an overcorrection, the 2010's evolved the alt rightoid from skin head bozo to composed 'intellectual', and with zoomers slowly making up the forefront of online and irl socio-politics we have a chance to capitalise on this new wave. the early to mid 2020's will be and is 100% defined by a pull to the community offered by aesthetic, and a more nuanced approach to self help (especially working out, which is refreshing to see how appreciated and compassionate our take on exercise is). I doubt it'll be taken too openly cause it is kind of adapting right wing communing tactics for our own, but it does work.
I've been sick all weekend with the flu, so... no thanks, but I'll still watch your video while freezing to death in a hot room
I don't struggle with dirty dishes in the sink cause I invested in a dishwasher. I instead struggle with loading and unloading my dishwasher
I might catch some flak for this in the comments, but honestly a countertop dishwasher completely changed the game for me. Even though they're not like CRAZY expensive as far as appliances go, I still couldn't afford one for a really long time, and as much as I don't like using Amazon, a buddy of mine recommended the Prime Store card, which you can use to split large payments into 6 monthly ones with no APR, and I hate to say it, but it did help a lot. If you have the money, or you can finance it without worrying about your credit score, I would strongly recommend getting one. My kitchen has never been cleaner, and I have more energy to do other, better things with my time
Dude you reminded me strogonoff exists. I'll have to cook strogonoff now, good job.
Self-help has to be tailored to each individual and the person making is content often just speaks on what helped them. Most of it has not aligned with me, but that doesn't been it's not good information (or helpful to others). i just enjoy your voice haha. keep up the good vids, Noah.
It’s nice to see self help content that’s not misunderstanding the point of ‘Fight Club’.
This was great fun! More of these please. Also, the vulnerability was endearing.
This was really great - as someone that doesn't have the ability to do much in the US or the UK physically as I live in Japan, a part of me always felt hypocritical for being a leftist that doesn't do much active on-the-ground work. But it's good to remember that every little helps, and even the random videos can help towards a bigger change. I've been wanting to get into some health and beauty stuff more on Instagram, but didn't think it made sense.
This has given me the final kick I needed - so there ya go, that's one more thing you've inspired.
Keep doing what you're doing, Noah. You're helping a lotta peeps.
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Oh I love this! This is basically a form of body doubling! So smart!
I love this! I like the body doubling aspect. It also makes it easier to start a task cause someone else basically did the hard part to start already! The discussion was also nice. It's the same way I talk so it made my brain happy!
A man who does his dishes and doesn't wait for his girlfriend to come over and do them. Gold.
Noah
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Bill Hicks. Or even a movie review of American the Bill Hicks story. Thanks
i need this but for cleaning my room or my car, i love this 💗
I used to live in a small illegal apartment and got a counter top dishwasher. Was lifechanging and my water bill went down. But had to find a place to hide it when I didnt need it.
I recommend dishwashing gloves. They add thermal protection and also go farther up your forearms.
This morning I looked at the state of my kitchen and turned away because watering my plants have been on my to do list for 3 weeks now so why not procrastinate the kitchen instead. Once I put your video up I started to clean up my kitchen because "we're doing this toguether". So thank you 💕
I've just finished my dishes while listening to this. And I'm absolutely behind more leftist self-help content, or hell, more leftist content that isn't inherently political. This can be a good way to
a) bring more people into lefty ideas indirectly, and maybe in a way that is not as intimidating, and that humanizes us as people. I don't think anyone of us is ONLY their ideology.
b) make it a nice space for people who enjoy that content, especially if the biggest creators in that market are right wing or scummy (sigmarxism, for leftists that enjoy Warhammer 40K is a great example)
c) Just helpful/entertaining in general.
So I'm behind lefty self-help. Might not be for everyone, but no content is.
a+, great ideas, would wash dishes again
can we have a cat care ramblings video next
i have been struggling with chores since past few months, i forget to eat or have no motivation to leave my room... i've been trying to get my life on track. I put it on just because i love your content but this was such an effective call to action, it gave me that push that i struggle so much to find daily, so thank you so much
I find that this content gives me motivation to clean when I need to which can be super helpful when I'm in the pits. I suppose when someone else has already said "I'm struggling with this and having you here helps" it feels easier to share in that and do your cleaning tasks too.
Hey, I just did my dishes. Thanks for body-doubling me
Refilled my humidifier, changed my furnace filter, folded some laundry, decided on the book I'll start reading tonight, and absolutely CRUSHED the subscribe button
Realistic self-help content from a fellow ADHD haver? I would consume. Noah, you are right in that these things could evoke something big; giving people some tools to help take control of their lives is important not only in a health sense, but also in gaining confidence. There is a lot of "self=help" like content that is unobtainable or unrealistic. Some is also just straight vibes and we watch it during sadboi midnight snacktime hours. I think you would do very good self-help content, so I am all for it.
I used to be a depressed "guy" and I would've probably fallen for self help grifts before I was 16
but then I figured out It was dysphoria, and now I've got tibbies and I'm watching the latest in leftist content.
what a way to be
I will say, I watched your general cleaning up the apartment video, and it helped me to clean my room for the first time in a long time. This kind of thing works well for me. Thank you so much for posting.
yeah makes sense, i listened to this on sunday morning while doing chores, also helped me get back into the swing of listening to stuff and doing chores. thanks!
i'm not one of your long time viewers or anything, i just saw this video on my recommended, but i find self-help content pretty helpful. i think it really depends on the person- for some people it does nothing or maybe even makes them feel worse, but for people like me, it's exactly what i'm looking for, and i both enjoy and learn from self help. i get why some people don't like it, but i am motivated to "help myself" i guess so i really like this stuff.
also i agree with your point about community.
actually insane this video was the perfect length for me to get my dishes done to
This just so perfectly helped me with my complicated feelings loving semi soullless productivity motivation aesthetic videos and my awareness that it’s just preying on continuing the delusion that our struggles are individual and we can both be fulfilled and have our 9-5 if we just have a 5-9 before etc etc
The way ur cat yells at u when ur scolding her is so silly
I loved this video, it came to my recommended videos at the right time. I managed to start to clean my apartment, still feel like crap but at least I've done something today
I like hearing your thoughts somewhat unfiltered. I don't really need the motivation stuff, but clearly others in the comments section do so I say go for it.
As someone who has consumed self-help content in the past it definitely can make an impact but the person has to actually want to change their life. Ignoring the "self" is something that happens a lot and instead of improving yourself you're consuming the content and just talking a big game. These gurus validate that by saying how great the community is and how there's so many people improving their lives. But they're mostly the same, just with a bigger ego. Those who actually take the advice and improve their daily lives don't stick around because it doesn't really take that much to improve your life when you're motivated to do so. I hope you get some motivated people looking to learn and improve. Because you can give a good left perspective.
Thanks. Got me up from the desk. Motivated me to clean the dishes directly after cooking some scallops for a midnight snack.
i think this is a vid i needed, i have been hoarding dishes and been really ashamed of talking about it to people because i thought it was just me with a counter that stacked, its in a way very nice seeing that noah also has dishes stacked and i'm not a total degenerate
I don’t know what it says about me that I got distracted, and was focusing on his cleaning techniques. 9/10. cleaning the sink is so satisfying. 🤦♀️ this reminds me of old RUclips, and is wholesome as shit, but also keeping it real. Also loving the humble brag about Fiq. I loved everything about this. Saved my week.
I did my dishes!!! Thank you for setting a good example for me today, it was hard to get out of bed.
Consistency is key-ryptonite for me
If it helps you and one other person you're doing A+ work. Definitely got me thinking of doing the dishes in my shower so I can take a shower!
I got home from work and was looking for a video to wash dishes to. This was great thank you
This is adorable and makes me happy and motivated to do my own dishes.
You're a cool person with a beautiful personality and I'm excited for more content like this. I'm mostly just happy to hear the ramblings, it's just kinda cozy.
I definitely find this type of thing helpful for me. I think the honest discussion about balancing wellbeing with doing stuff like organising is important. It can really hard sometimes and just being able to hear someone else put words to the thoughts feelings I have is grounding. It helps give me permission to take care of myself without devaluing the importance of trying to make change and take part in political action.
This is 100% my new favorite type of content
Hi! Just wanted to share this helped me do my dishes as well, and because I watched some of your others you have posted later on this channel first (ie breadtube bedroom cleaning bonanza) I was also able to make myself lunch and take out my trash! Loved these videos!
Doing dishes alongside my brother Noah, thank you for getting me through this 😭
thanks for pushing me to do my dishes 😊
You should get a countertop dishwasher! It hooks right into your sink and it honestly helped me so much because washing dishes makes me feel like I'm gonna die so if I can just pop them in there, I actually get clean stuff!
I don't watch lifestyle videos but I do love "clean with me" videos, so this was definitely up my alley
Also, check out Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha's book the future is disabled. She has a chapter on pleasure activism that talks about this kinda stuff (and all her work is massively slept on by mainstream folk)
this was so good it helped me go and finally clean the dishes (also worked as a reminder bc i literally forgot i had to do it)
idk about self help channels but videos like these help me a lot, watching just a cool guy yap and clean his dishes makes me want to do my dishes as well (thats probably that sense of community you were talking about, sharing our struggles and taking baby steps together) or posting a videos of you in the gym and talking about how it can get hard sometimes but youre here, seeing you make progress makes me want to take that first step as well
and to your point about activism and politics, ive been wanting to do more for the world and community since 2020 but ive been in a constant burnout for a few years and only now, bcuz of watching content like yours or hasan's etc ive slowly built the courage to work on myself and in turn have the mental and physical capacity to make actual change and organize
at the end of the day its always nice to have content like that to fall back on
This is great and more people should do this to help others with chores, having buddies is the best way to do these type of menial tasks. But as someone who has taken care of dishes since prepubescence I'm having a hard time watching you do them in single file, one fork at a time.
Props for cleaning your sink, a surprising amount of people don't.
i am applying to jobs but spiritually i am doing the dishes
the thread-of-water technique, approved
hey noah, this is the first video of you that im watching, im from Argentina (thats why my english sucks lol) n the economical situation is very difficult for us and also i am struggling with a lot lately, but your video just appears in time i guess. i have the same thoughts you talk abt in the video, kinda strange since i didnt know you till now, but im glad, i mean you give me in just 12 minutes a kinda feeling of relief. thank u man. i dont usually coment on videos, but i wanted u to know that u are doing something good for us n i hope this comment do something good (virtually at least) for u and for anyone reading it. thats community
TBH, this helped me wash the dishes right after having a major panic attack. So if it’s anything to go off by, this helped. Thank you. :)
the cat biting the cord was 100/10 my life
decided to get out of bed after watching this! finished knitting a sweater. love this video style
As someone with a lifelong hatred of doing the dishes, you really needed a trigger warning before "the delicious shot"
Homie, this may be more of those anecdotal unquantifiable comments but I can't tell you how much I have been wanting and honestly NEEDING content like this. It helps me a ton but I hate the reactionary nature of most of the channels that make this type of content, so seeing this content from someone who has good politics I agree with and acknowledges what the real problems are and that this individualistic approach won't fix the issues, BUT it can and does help some of us that need and want this content is super helpful. Seriously thanks dude. If you consistently post videos I will consistently watch them and it will GENUINELY help me out. So just another vote for more of this community.
You've inspired me to wash my dishes. Thank you.