{"id":300089,"date":"2025-06-18T04:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/adventures-in-youtubeland-by-steve-way\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:27:40","slug":"adventures-in-youtubeland-by-steve-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=300089","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Youtubeland By Steve Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">As<br \/>\nchildren\u2019s writers we often aim to create new worlds and new dimensions. I\u2019ve<br \/>\nbeen wondering lately if a utopian land, that I\u2019m certainly not a resident of,<br \/>\ncalled Youtubeland exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Recently a<br \/>\nfriend of ours very kindly gave us a smart TV that she was no longer using.* As<br \/>\nher various streaming accounts, such as Netflix etc. were still linked to the<br \/>\nTV, I turned to Youtube to find out how to return it to its factory settings,<br \/>\nso that we could erase her accounts and start anew using ours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Sure enough,<br \/>\nit didn\u2019t take long to discover videos explaining how to do this. The<br \/>\ninstructions were along the lines of; \u2018Click on this option, this page will<br \/>\nappear, click here, this second page will appear, click here\u2026 and so on a few<br \/>\ntimes and then Hey Presto, factory settings will be restored!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nif you\u2019ve had the same experiences as me, perhaps you unconsciously own<br \/>\npassports to Youtubeland and all works for you as on the videos. In my case, as<br \/>\non previous similar occasions, when I tried this in real life, it didn\u2019t quite<br \/>\nwork out that way. I carried out the first instruction, I clicked on the named<br \/>\noption but even though I\u2019d seen the page in the video appear on the same model<br \/>\nTV as ours, a <i>completely <\/i>different page appeared instead. Not for the<br \/>\nfirst time I fell at the first hurdle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">What I fail<br \/>\nto understand is why based on the same action, one screen appears on the TV in Youtubeland<br \/>\nreplaced by a totally different one in what appears to me to be reality (we\u2019re<br \/>\ngetting philosophical here.) It\u2019s the same with the \u2018watch how we make<br \/>\nsomething complicated appear really easy\u2019 videos. For me these activities<br \/>\nremain complicated and fraught with various frustrations and difficulties, accentuated<br \/>\nsince it appears they don\u2019t exist in this parallel reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">I suppose<br \/>\nwhen it comes down to it, we\u2019re exposed to many odd apparent \u2018other\u2019 worlds,<br \/>\nstarting with the inappropriately named \u2018reality\u2019 shows where participants are<br \/>\nthrown into largely unreal environments. There\u2019s also Cooking Competition Land<br \/>\nwhere food has to be prepared that no longer looks like food and is manhandled<br \/>\nonto the plate by hand. (I don\u2019t know about you, I don\u2019t care how posh the food<br \/>\nis, I wouldn\u2019t want anyone fiddling about with it by hand before serving it.) Also,<br \/>\nHouse Renovation Land where, no matter how badly things seem to be going at<br \/>\nsome stage, without fail the house always ends up looking like a five star show<br \/>\nhome. Meanwhile out here in what I perceive as reality (here I go again) the<br \/>\nvast majority of renovations are fraught with far more problems and often end<br \/>\nup incomplete or imperfect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">So maybe<br \/>\nsometimes when we\u2019re thinking of creating imaginary worlds different from our<br \/>\nown, perhaps they could be closer than we think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">By the way<br \/>\nwe did get the TV sorted out in the end, mainly with the help of our teenage<br \/>\ngrandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">*We\u2019re very<br \/>\nlucky when it comes to friends \u2013 see last month\u2019s piece about tea bag<br \/>\ndeliveries!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Despite my<br \/>\ntrials and tribulations, I have ventured into Youtubeland in my own ways. You<br \/>\nmight enjoy this poem about flat shapes;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Koo5U4eLDss\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Koo5U4eLDss<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\">Or possibly<br \/>\nmy silliest poem\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/7eci8Bc98U0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/7eci8Bc98U0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As children\u2019s writers we often aim to create new worlds and new dimensions. I\u2019ve been wondering lately if a utopian land, that I\u2019m certainly not a resident of, called Youtubeland exists. 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