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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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(Disclaimer: I do not have children and never will unless something goes horribly wrong)
A lot of it is just being physically present at home. The general consensus I've seen from parents is that until the youngest is over 10, they need supervision, so at least one parent is going to have to be there at all times. This obviously gets exacerbated if eg the parents split up or have work schedules that don't line up. Some people can get around this with daycare or family help, but a lot of people don't have enough money or eg retired parents who can do childcare.
There's also kids doing their own hobby stuff. If Timmy wants to play soccer, well, that means that the parents have to take him and are now losing their own Thursday nights and Saturday mornings. From what I've seen, a lot of kids will have 2-3 such activities. The parents I'm friends with generally are only free like one night a week until the kids hit their mid-teens and become more autonomous.
All of this is likely made worse by horrendous infrastructure design in the US that necessitates having a car everywhere but major cities.