You’re Not Watching Videos at Lunch for Entertainment. You’re Running from Yourself.
A Hacker News thread about lunchtime video habits reveals something nobody’s talking about: the 20-minute solo-dining video isn’t about entertainment or learning. It’s a social surrogate — a way to avoid the deafening silence of eating alone with your own thoughts. We swing between Veritasium and Impractical Jokers not because of content preference, but psychological need.