Things that happen even if I don't want them to
One of the only things I use youtube for is gardening videos. I like to use youtube for really specific problems or questions I have, that work better in a video than written. Like, what my tomatoes might be dying from. What my cucumbers should look like at this time of year. (Probably not still soil, I'm guessing.)
This might seem very straightforward. Gardening videos.
What could.
Possibly.
Go wrong.
Exhibit 1. Americans. Hear me out.
1.1. The climate is so wildly different none of the information is relevant to me. They also all have orders of magnitude more garden space than I do.
1.2. It's only a matter of time, watching American gardening youtubers, before eight barefoot unschooled children show up and someone starts talking about serving and honouring her husband.
Exhibit 2. The comments. (Just don't read the comments, would be sound advice. But sometimes they are actually useful: there's an insight or a clarification. So sometimes I read the comments.)
2.1. The sexism. Feels like there's no need to elaborate to you, person who is on the internet.
2.2. Contrails. I was at a climate change demonstration, must be fifteen years ago, where someone had a sign about 'chemtrails' and other people complained, saying they were bringing us all into disrepute with nonsense conspiracy. It was a simpler time. When we thought common sense, reason, and science, might triumph.
I've found a hellmouth to the wellness-to-fascism pipeline and I Do Not Like It.