YouTube Drift
a person starts a search on youtube for a specific topic or video and then clicks on a related video. upon the completion of this video, clicks on another related video. this continues a number of times until in the end, the videos you end up watching are in no way related to your original topic of interest.
me: i was watching some awesome videos about botfly larvae extraction last night on youtube.
her: whoa! what made you want to look at those?!
me: well, i started out by looking up videos on fishing for muskie and before i knew it, i youtube drifted and ended up watching these two maggots getting removed from some dude’s back. you gotta see it!
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