Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.
People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring
This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.
If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.
This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.
To turn this off:
Go to your youtube app settings
Go to Privacy
Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"
Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.
Video sharing and messaging on YouTube is in select countries/regions. It is not available to everyone at this time. Messages may be
...and as far as I can tell is currently only an in-app feature, so this toggle doesn't exist in the website settings even if you're in an affected country. But still, definitely something to check.
Realized this yesterday when I tried to send my mom a short via text. Thankfully all I have on that old ass account that's still publicly viewable are some music and tutorial playlists.
I find it weird that they're doing it this way considering YouTube used to have a dm system way back in ye olden days. It was just a basic private message system like you'd see on forums. Idk why they thought making it this complicated and interconnected was a good idea.
Side note, I also HATE the new notification system when you're in the app. Here I am watching a video and suddenly a notification that takes up almost half the video space pops up to notify me that a music artist I follow posted something. Like thanks dude but I'm currently watching something can you chill just a bit?
I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive
The thing they don't tell you about dealing with ADHD is that sometimes when you really, really don't want to do something you absolutely need to do your brain will suddenly lift the barriers stopping you from cleaning or doing other chores you've been struggling to finish, and so you have to run around stopping yourself from doing all the dishes or laundry or deep cleaning the bathroom despite needing to because you do not have time for that right now, you absolutely have to do this other task, and the whole time it feels awful because you've needed to do all the rest of that too for a while and you couldn't, but you can now—only no, you can't—and yeah you can come back to all that after you do your thing you don't wanna do, but then you'll be back in "I can't do this" mode because you don't have another task to avoid, so you just have to accept it and it sucks.
Brought to you by me not wanting to make phone calls so badly I had to actively stop myself from doing like seven other chores, which felt like being hunted for sport.
Took me years to understand that boredom is not the enemy of writing. It is the raw material. Every good idea i have ever had arrived during a walk with no podcast, a train with no phone, a shower where i just stood there. The moment i fill every silence with content i stop generating anything of my own. I am just processing other people's thoughts instead of having mine. The empty space is where the work comes from. Protecting the empty space is the actual job.
It is funny with bigotry where people unaffected by it act like that somehow disproves it. At an old job, talked to HR about a co-worker who kept calling me a faggot, and the HR person was like "Are you sure? He's never said anything like that to me."
Gee, Hetero Jessica, he's never called you a faggot? Then I must have misheard him!
Sometimes you mention that progressives (liberals, leftists, whatever) have their own biases and knee-jerk reactions that make certain topics difficult, which gets misinterpreted as 'both sides are equally bad.'
No, there is an obviously, heinously, and indisputably worse side. But I think it's mature to look in the mirror and say 'yes there are things I do that get in my own way.'
unfortunately there are like 23 billion other things to worry about right now but just for the record: straight people who are trying to "rebrand" pride month as "national nuclear family month" are so fucking evil. positioning gay pride as antithetical to the concept of a family is evil. doing so in a way that is explicitly white nationalism is evil. acting like queer pride is the thing that destroys families is evil.
we are not just backsliding, we are back at the milquetoast assertation "love is love." for the record: when people ask us why we need pride this is literally fucking why. when other queer people ask me if we really need all the rainbow shit, this is why. when we make a fuss about so many shows not having any positive queer rep: this is why.
it has only been 11 years since it was nationally legal for gay people to get married. homophobia is still very much alive and well - and it is often the thing that ruins a family.
It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible
Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Some is better than none. Walking for three minutes, is better than nothing. Drinking a glass of water and eating a snack, is better than nothing. Wiping down the counter, is better than nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. Small things are not nothing. You don’t have to achieve grand things if all you’re capable of right now is the smaller things. They are still achievements. Don’t do nothing just because you don’t think you’re capable of doing bigger things, just do something you’re capable of today. 
People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.
CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks
My reasons on why I believe Bobutter (Bojack Horseman x Mr peanutbutter) works
Yep, I’ve hit rock bottom on ts
Disclaimer: This post is based on my opinion and interpretations of the characters and the show + some stuff based on video essays I binged(shout out to PosiTVy, go check out their stuff it’s super good).
Also this post will discuss sensitive topics such as substance abuse(drugs and alcohol), brief mentions of sexual activities, predatory behavior and bad mental health coping habits, alongside mental disorders and syndromes.
1- Character foils
Bojack and PB are very clearly character foils to one another. They’ve gone through a lot of the same experiences in their lives(Ex: Being a sitcom star in the 90s, hiding their true feelings with a persona, having HORRIBLE patterns with the women in their lives) and face similar issues with self esteem but went about it much differently.
BJ copes with the struggles in his life by convincing himself that he is too far gone and isn’t capable of change and wallows in his self destruction(Ex: his addictions to substances, sex and fame), hiding behind mundane problems(Ex: The muffins scandal or the auto-erotic afixiation) and being cruel to others in order to not have to be vulnerable with them.
PB on the other hand, copes with it with toxic positivity and people pleasing. PB constantly keeps a happy go lucky facade and acts as if the way others mistreat him doesn’t affect him or that he doesn’t even notice, which is clearly not true, not to mention he’s always doing whatever he thinks others like and doesn’t listen when someone tells him that it’s not the case, because in his mind, what he likes is what everybody likes, when in reality, what he prefers isn’t what everyone wants and vice versa.*
* An accurate interpretation of Mr peanutbutter that I heard on a YouTube channel called posiTVy is that he seems to have a personality trait called Sociotropy, which basically means people who have the need to be socially accepted by others, which as we know, is pretty much PB’s whole thing atp
2- Mutual admiration
As the show itself has pointed out, Bojack and PB have a mutual admiration and jealousy of one another for their own aspects, holding the other to a much higher pedestal when in reality, they’re pretty much on the same level.
Bojack is jealous of PB because he sees a better version of himself, one that is more positive, has great relationships and seems to be doing much better than him. That he seems to actually enjoy life. That he has the one thing he doesn’t. “I want to feel good about myself, the way you do.” -Season 2, Episode 8 “Let’s find out”
Mr Peanutbutter on the other hand looks up to Bojack, despite being witness to majority of his flaws, but that’s the point. He perceives Bojack’s bitterness and cruelty as “classic Bojack” and as a carefree attitude, interpreting it as him not caring what others think about him and still being liked despite that. That others are somehow still capable of liking him despite how much he doesn’t align to their wishes and that he seems to not depend on other’s. That he seems to not worry about how others perceive him. That he has the one thing he doesn’t.
3- Breaking bad dating patterns
Im going to be blunt, these two seriously NEED to be kept away from young women. As previously mentioned, these two have the same, very worrying pattern of chasing younger women and if things get serious, they end up becoming extremely dependent on them(+Having some sort of power imbalance in the case of Bojack).
So having them get together with someone their age with roughly the same level of fame and that is facing the same issues and working on bettering themselves at the same time(post-canon Bobutter is the best version of it, argue with the wall), it could help them on bettering themselves and breaking these habits with trying out something new. And I’m not just saying that because they’re gay. /j
4- Implications of the ship being canon.
PB being the only one that sticks directly by Bojack to the very end when they’re both single, pieces of dialogue between them such as “good morning, sunshine!” -PB in season 6 Or “You beautiful bastard, that’s it!” -BJ in season 1, Diane stating in season 1 that PB is desperate for Bojack’s attention, multiple posts on the official Bojack RP marketing social medias insinuating about PB wanting something with Bojack and.. do I even need to explain this?
Of course, a ship being canon doesn’t automatically make it good, but it does add more wood to the fire so I believe it’s worth mentioning.
5- Aesthetically pleasing
Same situation as the validity of a ship, two characters looking good next to each other doesn’t guarantee them working out as a couple(I mean , look at PB and Diane and how that worked out), but it still adds more onto it.
Bojack’s withy, washed up, tired look along with his bitter and snarky dialogue with his deep voice compliments Mr. Peanutbutter’s more put together and cheerful appearance with his outgoing and friendly personality and speech very nicely.
Plus putting a horse next to a yellow lab is simply just something that I wasn’t able to find anywhere else, which makes them even more interesting and unique!
6- Similar quirks and character traits
Constantly making pop culture references, showing affection through grand gestures, coping through joking about their situation, being suckers for fluffy and hopeful family shows and probably some more that I can’t think of atm.
7- Alternative versions of the ship
Philbert x Gritz is an opportunity that people need to explore more, not even to mention The Horse x Mr peanutbutter’s house PB, we need to invest in them ASAP. 90s Bobutter as well, we need the toxic internalized homophobia yaoi NOOOWWWWW
8- Possibilities of AUs and fanfiction material
Post-canon Bobutter is the perfect set up for fanfiction, having them living together with Mr. Peanutbutter at the top with the success of Birthday Dad and Bojack crashing at his house rent free desperately trying to keep a steady job while also working through the torment of his past actions and the torment of being in love with the silly dog is just fantastic potential.
stuff like “Good morning, sunshine” by Lapinpuff Or “TOO SWEET” by drinking_cyanide is insanely good, trust me(both of these are in ao3 btw)
Other versions of it such as 90s Bobutter is really good as well, go look for yourselves lads!!
