"Cute, fuzzy...let's show it to a friend!"
At this moment, that video has just a dash over 8 million views. That's not really any news for a youtube video. Hell, Avril Lavigne's video for "Girlfriend" has over 118 million views (Most Popular YouTube Videos, Alltime).
Back to the kitten video -- I was in my own little world, staring and smiling at the playful lil kittens pouncing around when it hit me: "How many other slobs are blobbing in front of their computers doing the same exact thing?" So, I did some quick math.
8 million views for a video that is roughly 1.5 minutes.
That's 12,000,000 minutes of wasted time. That's 200,000 hours gone. 8,333 days of human life lost. That's 22.8 YEARS of life that can never be lived again. I'm only 21 years old, these cute little kittens, no more than a month or so old, have consumed more human life that I have lived.
Avril Lavgine's crappy video, at 3:48 in length and 118,768,725 views, has consumed a whopping 27,079,269,300 seconds; 451,321,155 minutes ; 7,522,019 hours ; 313,417 days; 858.67 YEARS of life. Someone *please* correct my math if I have made a mistake. This is just hard for me to believe. I had never really stopped to think about how much time is wasted.
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3 Comments
Greg Johnson April 28, 2009
You make a great point Kevin.
gaj
rose casanova May 12, 2009
great point and a bit depressing.
B Chen November 7, 2009
If you calculate how many lifetimes are wasted eating or going to the bathroom each day … the can is a good diversion.
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