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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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My partner does this, I will never understand how she can fall asleep with something playing in the background
Trauma
I grew up in a pretty messed up family. We're indigenous so my parents and grand parents went through residential school, I went through boarding school in high school, everyone including me was an alcoholic, people did drugs, messed up shit since before I was born ... but somehow I and my family survived through it all.
But a common thing with me and my siblings was to fall asleep listening to music. Pop songs, rock songs, whatever and I never understood it for a long time .... it was just comforting. Later on after my journey into recovery from alcoholism, I learned it was just a coping mechanism for us ... a way to just distract ourselves to stop us from thinking about sad, depressing, frightening, disturbing or traumatic things.
Oh yeah that makes sense, she went through some shit
Oh damn. I never realized that's why I cannot sleep in quiet.
I do that, for me it’s a form of white noise. There are certain content creators/ panel shows that send me right to sleep. I have issues with racing thoughts and I’ve found out helps quiet that.
Related to the OP post I have to be really diligent on vetting new (to me) content creators. So I end up just rewatching content.
almost the entirely of Britain over a certain age falls asleep to the shipping forecast.