Peeves about clickbait titles in YouTube? There must be more categories besides this example.

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Title says, "Friend/family Reveals What We Suspected about (insert celebrity here)". And the first 10 seconds of introduction are, "But FIRST... and stay to the end..." - and then ensues gory detail by gory detail of cradle to grave of bio and career. And, silly me, imagining to outwit the clickbait by fast-forwarding to the last 5 minutes, nah who knows when the big secret was revealed but the end is only the funeral attendees or summary of legacy impact. ARrrgh.

Another type, " (So-and-so) Has a Total Meltdown" or "Has Career Ending" - and what follows is some underwhelming bit.

*** But I've been enrolled in The University of YouTube for a couple of years and it's been mind blowing. The myriad of How-To for any imaginable tool or project, fine. But mainly all the historical gossip, which unfortunately has washed away ALL the illusions of our academic indoctrination - knocking down all the "Great Man" version of history, main lesson being that every single "hero" is nothing more than feet-of-clay. Yeah, gullible-me not to have outgrown idealism at this late date.

A couple of benefits of the videos: 1- Endless variety of subjects and Always-Open (no dependency on t.v. and somebody else's Menu. 2-Short Attention, I mostly stick with 20-minutes' lengths, only seldom/occasionally go to hour-Plus.

My main topics have been of the History-is-gossip type, besides the usual gossip of the Hollywood variety. The pyramids. In the early '70s when I was in my main academic quagmire, the fads were: 1-Forget about the pyramids, the Way is touchy-feely, and 2-Forget about "Prescriptive Grammar" the Way is "Deep Meaning" (Descriptive Grammar) of whatever word-constructions (grammar nazis are GONE). And my academics experience was a dreary quagmire. Now I'm *fascinated* by, what? The pyramids, Greeks, Romans, and the stand-outs Alexander, Caesar, Cleopatra, and scads of whoever pops into my Recommended-for-you feeds.

* Oh, forgot my main one (this past year), the origins of Early Christianity, rooted in Greek and other myths. I fell into being a Lapsed Catholic starting in my adolescence, and stopped attendance by age 18, thinking it was because of my growing Secular Humanism in my later academics. In YouTube I've been immersed in videos of the history, how the main issues in the "religious scriptures" were the events of Greek culture and Roman power and the Jewish reactions. The "mystery religions" of the Greco-Romans, the DRUGS. But most of all, my latest realization was that the *core* of my past Lapsed-ness and secular humanism is that my Catholic doctrines just NEVER MADE SENSE, NEVER REGISTERED with me - "virgin birth," resurrection, walking on water? Even now, when the videos have taught me how the shifts went from *bodily* resurrection to *spiritual* resurrection, my bell just don't chime. Or toll. What *does* make sense was the gigantic Power Struggle, how the "new" religion was aimed towards Roman funneling towards a defusing of native nationalistic opposition/resistance, with Roman recruiting of Collaborators/traitors.

I mourn my ex-heroes and refuse to trash some of them. Like, academics indoctrinated that Andrew JACKSON was a rough dude, but didn't show me how genocidal. And what came through about Woodrow WILSON was his "nobilty" with the end of WW I and the League of Nations, but what didn't come through the indoctrination was his racism and how the Winners divided up the world in ways that sowed the seeds for WW II but also some of the problems we have today. YouTube has knocked down just about everybody. The veil on JFK and the KENNEDYs was torn down long before YouTube, and for the past scores of years I just started blocking out that whole era (Missile Crisis, assassination, Vietnam, LBJ), but lately some videos have led to gasp about just how much JFK's libido (and drugs) made Bill CLINTON's one main event look like nothing, not to mention all the other videos exposing the libidos of just about everybody.

The ones I refuse to throw away - I don't care about FDR's and Eleanor's love lives, will always adore them. As for the Hollywood "secrets' - uh, so *gullibly* I fell for the images, and just about all of them are clay about every conceivable character flaw: Think of a Name, there's a video exposing it.

* One small thing, all of the Podcast 15-Minutes-Famers - I've figured out that "stars" like ROGAN and the commentators are doing the same thing, "learning" their slant from YouTube videos, finding something that reinforces their slant and passing it off as their very own insight and profound knowledge. When ROGAN discovers some "amazing" almost-conspiracy-thing, he *PEELS* his eyeballs and has the mouth breathing face. And in one 30-seconds monitoring the Dana LOESCH wingnut, she mouthed off about "the Palestinians" and I said, "I know which video she saw!"

There must be more peeves than these.