I spent a week in hospital last year and one old bloke in our ward watched YouTube on his phone all day every day at full volume. The rest of us offered to buy him some headphones but he was a cantankerous old shit and was having none of it.
The interesting side note to that story though is that I discovered there's an incredibly seedy side to YouTube premium - all he watched was AI generated videos, with an AI generated voice reading out an AI generated script about how some child had lost their parents in a war and then went on to find god, or a "serviceman" had been in a helicopter crash and then gone on to find god. It's basically scamming old people who are fearing the end. I know it's YouTube Premium because literally every 3rd video was a video about "how do I find my purchased videos on YouTube" which he would watch 20 times in a row and then eventually go off and find his purchased scam bait.
Despite how annoying all this was, I came out of it most angry at YouTube and everyone who works there enabling predatory scumbags to target sick old people.
The interesting side note to that story though is that I discovered there's an incredibly seedy side to YouTube premium - all he watched was AI generated videos, with an AI generated voice reading out an AI generated script about how some child had lost their parents in a war and then went on to find god, or a "serviceman" had been in a helicopter crash and then gone on to find god. It's basically scamming old people who are fearing the end. I know it's YouTube Premium because literally every 3rd video was a video about "how do I find my purchased videos on YouTube" which he would watch 20 times in a row and then eventually go off and find his purchased scam bait.
Despite how annoying all this was, I came out of it most angry at YouTube and everyone who works there enabling predatory scumbags to target sick old people.