Cringe VS Content

Living in a boarding school which prohibited the use of electronic gadgets , I had no access to internet. Yep, we only had intranet.  This led me to read only books from the library, magazines and newspaper. I still remember skipping the Lunch breaks to finish the series ‘Legend’, crying my heart out at 3 am after reading    ‘The Boy In  The   Striped Pyjamas’.

Fast forward to now, I am back home (pune) and pursuing my first year in b.com. The unsaid  norm in the cities is to own a mobile phone after a certain age and I am not complaining. It does feel good to own a phone but not sure how necessary.  I was very eager to make use of this new found freedom of having a mobile phone, internet and television.

Television and internet are the two biggest source of entertainment in  daily life.  Talking about Indian television , it is filled with so much bullshit. The shows having good TRPs also do no justice. The storyline is often repeated (eg marrying the same couple for 3/4 times), when the story is good the actors are bad and all of us  know the reality of the reality shows.  All this does not make the television as my priority to find entertainment. obviously the next biggest platform is YouTube.

Videos uploaded on YouTube India will mostly include:   

1.       Music videos uploaded by T-series

2.       Bollywood news

3.       Trailers

4.       Television channels promoting their shows

5.       Movie reviews 

6.       Roasting channels

7.       Vines channel

8.       Prank channels

9.       Dance/Music covers

10.   Stand up comedy

Well that’s all I can think of (more like see in my feed ).

And I don’t personally find most videos entertaining or worth watching. Often the thumb nails are made as click baits(Bollywood nows !!). Most roasts are on TikTok and  on the people who cannot speak good English.  The Vines channel use abusive words to be funny.  I am not the person who thinks …gali dena bhuri baat hai….in fact quite the opposite .However, I feel some vine makers abuse just to sound funny and that seriously does all the damage .I don’t even want to talk about the prank channels.Despite all this people watch the same things again and again.

So does that make YouTube totally worthless….Nahi yaar there are quite a few channels that don’t get the attention they deserve.

 I recently stumbled upon the ‘KirtiChow’ channel. This channel provides very good content. It doesn’t only focus on providing entertainment but few of the videos also deal with relevant issues at hand.  Another creator with unique content is the channel  ‘Swastikam’.

When it comes to reviewing classic movies with humor no one can  beat  ‘Only Desi’. This guy has an eye for minute details and a knack of narrating in a comical way. I am always eager to watch his new uploads.  ‘Tried and Refused Production’ is the best movie review channel in my opinion. It does detail analysis of the movies. The channel also comes up with interesting videos around Bollywood.

When it comes to pure entertainment I watch ‘ Be You Nick’ and of course the legendary roaster CarryMinati. Its always refreshing to watch videos of these two  channels.

Other channels which have content to offer and not cringe are

1.       Slay Point

2.       Sorabh Pant

3.       Sadhguru

4.       Sanam

5.       Abishek Upmanyu

6.       Saiman Says

7.       Buzzfeed india

It’s up to us what we want to promote and which creators we want to support on the internet. The audience is allowed to review the content in the comment section but that is used so badly. Instead of giving opinion on the video people are busy begging for like. Seriously guys, I want to know why do people do that.  Hope the level of cringe decreases and more channels having content are viewed.

Before ending this I want to mention that I am absolutely addicted to memes. Most of the memes circulating on the net are of good quality but some meme makers need to move on from their gold digger girlfriends and the girls who betrayed them.