Rules
- No Social Media Consumption(I am still a creator so that will continue):
- No Gaming: The easiest to do ever since I put courses and projects on website, that has become my game instead.
Exception: Just Dance on Wii is the exception as it's not really a game but a dance routine.
I already put all the controllers and game consoles I own up for sale and have packed them away from my room. -
My Tech Channels were dead when the PC market crash happened. No point kidding myself that the next video might be great or something, and if I have to, I can do the same research with website which are less time consuming than YouTube.
youtube/Bilibili ONLY for reviews and courses I reference for work on my website and that also only between 1800-1900hrs. I will try my best with other sources first but if I have no choice, I will download the video instead of watching it on youtube.
This also means I won't watch youtube for idle tech content which is prevalent on youtube. If it's a product I am not reviewing, I am not watching a video for it.
For courses, I will simply download the videos instead of watching them online. - No Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and more social medias consumption at all. I still share reels on Instagram from time to time but there are enough elements disabled that I won't watch reels if I choose not to.
Note: In past just after uploading a content, the default behaviour is to show a random content, I will figure out a way to stop that. - No Shopping app that have short/live video setup in them. I have removed these apps from my phone and will only use it on the PC or on the tablet but will refrain from watching the constant barrage of stupid product videos.
- No LinkedIn except to apply jobs: It's now worse than Facebook and Twitter combined. I just open up the jobs page and apply for jobs and that's it.
I just changed the default landing page on linkedin to the jobs one and i removed the feed section completely. - No Movies/TV Shows: Now, this is going to be a challenge. As I already tried doing this and it was absolutely horrible to do, however, I had the most benefit in terms of productivity with this, so I am continuing this.
- No Second Hand Video Entertainment: And by other people I mean Mother & Father. Whenever I am near them, they keep consuming social media like crazy so I have decided to just leave if they are consuming social media. I will only engage with them if there is no video entertainment playing otherwise I wll move to another room completely.
The second hand content was the reason I had to quit my previous challenge anyways. - Any other video entertainment that I have not thought of yet.
Note: Video Entertainment is to be replaced by...
- Courses & Projects(0600-1800hrs) and work for this website(only between 1800-2100hrs). That's the main thing, however, I am not an idiot, so the other things are.
- Music and Songs offline downloaded on my devices during the day. This has been a real help as I can get lost in thoughts and get bored. This keeps me on track.
- Manga(Physical Copies): While eating. As I explained before that all video entertainment's starting point was actually lunch where I had this habit of eating something only when something video is playing. I already have replaced this before with Manga but I would like to make it official.
- Audiobooks:Non-Fiction during the day and Fiction at night to sleep.
- Comics and Magazines on the Tablet, mainly when the going gets really tough and I need something to wind down. This is rare but I would still like to write this officially.
- Painting on the roof, some exercises, watering plants and whatever else I can find.
Motivation
It is time I combine by earlier two challenges viz. No Gaming, No youtube & No Movies, No TV into one combined challenge because they have a lot of parallels.
The earlier challenges were not concrete enough and didn't include all the cases. This will.
Progress: 6th August 6th July 2026 to Present
| Media Type | Why Bad | Time since last consumed |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube | The hardest one to do. I fall back in the trap of witch-burning where people criticize movies, games or just about anything and I keep drifting back to it. It's the toughest thing in this challenge by far and I guess I will have to give up work for my YouTube channels as I use that as an excuse to fall into the bad habits of witch-burning.
Also, every time even when I watch something great, at the end of the video I keep wondering, how did it actually effect me? It just turned me into a consumer where I could just have created or even consumed in a better way with audiobooks, music, manga, course and so much more things I talked above. |
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| Movie | I convert watching movie into a research paper and start obsessively intriguing it to the point of obsession and it also leads me into watching some YouTube channels that cover the issues with them like EFAP. | |
| Facebook, Instagram Reels(Second Hand) | Parents watch them all day and sometimes I sit beside them for family time and watch those second hand. I will no actually leave the room if they are on their phones consuming shit like this if I can't get them to stop doing it. | |
| A corporate HR site turned into the worst platform ever. I have blocked LinkedIn's main pages now and only open the jobs page by default for a few hours of unlock. Other times they are completely blocked. Other websites are much better for job as they don't have the incentive to increase followers there. | Nirvana about to be achieved | |
| A platform for bots to communicate with each other and exists for advertisement only(I mean advertisement via fake bot accounts masquerading as humans).
Note: I still post stuff on my sub-reddit but I don't consume other's content at all. |
Nirvana about to be achieved | |
| Shopping Apps that have auto-play videos for some reason! | Never wanted this, but it got up in my face with Amazon Live, Flipkart & Meesho Shorts and I uninstalled those stupid apps from my phone. I can order them from the tablet but I actively hate the videos on these platforms. | Nirvana Achieved (Don't remember last consumption date) |
| Don't care. Don't want to see bot filled site at all. Only use it to complain to companies when they don't reply and do nothing else on it. | Nirvana Achieved (Don't remember last consumption date) | |
| Facebook, Instagram Reels (On my own devices) | I don't even have those apps and if I have to add content on them, they are heavily sanitized to the point that I only upload videos but never consume them | Nirvana Achieved (Don't remember last consumption date) |
| TV Shows | Vices of Movies and Gaming Combined as above but with the added disaster of binging all of it while not actually enjoying it but more obsessed with finishing them. | Nirvana Achieved (Don't remember last consumption date) |
| Video Games | I start replacing video games with real life and work very hard to improve in games instead of in real life. I HAVE AN OBSESSIVE WORK ETHIC. It never traslates when I ever pickup any game. | Nirvana Achieved (Don't remember last consumption date) |
Day 1: 7th July 2026
Due to family reasons, a family member, a big consumer of video entertainment is at home and even though I try hard to start this challenge, it's not really happening.
To be clear, I am still not playing any games, but social media, tvs hows and movies, mainly them trying to show me some funny shit gets in the way!
A month later: Lots of stumbles. Trying to get back to it.
It's 6th August and I plan to get back into it. For the past many days I have mainly struggled with second hand instagram and facebook and mainly youtube so I am resetting the date now.