A short YouTube monologue (by Worldwide Ty) warning creators about the harms of constantly comparing their work to what they see online. The speaker argues that checking others’ work makes your own work feel less valuable, prevents finishing projects, and encourages endless revision/second-guessing based on perceived virality or audience reaction.
And then you spend five hours online, you might feel like the hour you spend that thing you're working on isn't valuable because it doesn't look like what you just saw online. Exactly. Or it doesn't like what people are commenting on. Or maybe I need to change what I'm doing because this is my. Oh, the thing I'm working on is not going to go viral because it doesn't. It doesn't feel like that. You'll spend all that. You'll never finish it. No, you'll never finish it. Always be checking your work against somebody else.
