askchapo

I did see the first like season and a half of Breaking Bad recently-ish, but I ended up falling out of it. That also happened with Community but hasn't happened with House yet. I think the difference with House is just because I see House with my whole family — really, social watching does make it easier to check new things out and not fall out of them. I do remember you have an account on the blorps, too, but it's been rare for us to be online at the same time there.

I have faint memories of youth where I watched among the first YouTube creator made origional video series that ran for hundreds of episodes that I don't remember anything about, only had handfuls of people watching them,

Remember fucking Lego Plane Go Boom? It's not at all the sort of cringe-edgy Japanese weeb trope-laden thing you're talking about, but it was an early YouTube series that ran for about 100 episodes from 2008 to 2022, that I watched as a wee'un. It was basically just a guy filming his hand holding a Lego airplane and walking around his house with humorous narration, and then breaking the airplane into a bajillion little pieces… but it pretty quickly ended up having like a recurring cast of characters and ongoing plot with Megan, Doofy and Uncle Straw et al.

When it comes to long-running cringe-edgy weeb shit, I'm not sure I'm familiar with anything like what you're describing. If you ever do stumble upon an example of That Sort of Thing again I'd be glad to hear about it. The stuff I'm talking about — fanime — all the ones I've seen have been more silly than edgy, and tended to only run for like… 15 episodes at most. It wasn't anything I saw much of as a kid, either — I was only really introduced to fanime more recently, but I've quickly become obsessed with it because it's so capital-K Kino^[I normally oppose using terms originating in chan culture but this is one I make an exception for.] that Viktor Tsoi himself might as well be singing the opening themes.