It's not for a cool 20 minute video. It's for the collective viewing time of som...

postingawayonhn · on Sept 18, 2023

> collective viewing time of some 2.2 billion minutes of entertainment.

Viewing stats for some videos/events can be hard to get your head around. That's about 50 lifetimes by my calculation.

bombcar · on Sept 18, 2023

Baby Shark has 13 billion views, at 2.25 minutes that is 55,000 years!

jerrre · on Sept 18, 2023

It will be a high amount of minutes in any case, but not every view on YT will have seen the full 20 minutes

ilyt · on Sept 18, 2023

So it also wasted 2.2 billion of people's time on top of the landfill...

criddell · on Sept 18, 2023

Like John Lennon once said, time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted.

Also, a social media website is probably not the right place to point out that other people are wasting their time...