I’m on the family plan, and it’s certainly expensive compared to other streaming services. But I use YouTube both personally and professionally. I teach, and whenever I need to show a video, having a work account with premium is invaluable since I can’t install ad blockers on campus. My wife and kids all have their own accounts under the family plan as well. We all use YouTube music as well.

Google pisses me off and I’ve been getting out from under their heel for a while, but YouTube premium is something that I genuinely find value in paying for. At the very least, I want to financially support the creators that I watch and this is the best way to do so while avoiding advertisements.

Same for me!

As far as I can tell, this doesn’t have anything to do with Epic Games, the developers. Shell was paying twitch streamers directly to promote their initiative through playing Fortnite.

If you like Game Grumps, maybe check out Oney Plays.

To start, I’m sorry you had to go through that. My spouse and I had similar experiences while trying to conceive.

Loss is not funny to most people due to the contrast, but because of the sheer audacity of it’s existence. The gaming webcomic that it was a part of had already run for years, focused around 1-dimensional characters making low-brow jokes and silly violent scenarios centered within mid-2000s “randomness”. Suddenly, in 2008, the creator releases Loss, a manipulative, tone deaf strip about one of the worst physical and emotional traumas imaginable, shocking readers and earning infamy. Basically, it’s a meme because it’s so fucked. It’s why people who share it only refer to the work superficially by name or pattern, rather than by content, almost like a tragedy.

I’m on lemmy.zip as well and have been happy. Gravitates towards tech, recently defederated a few extremist instances (by a vote), good uptime, and run by some seemingly cool people.