Memory: Left-on Videos

Captured via: Media Player Logs // Queue Persistence Tracker

You pressed play.
You said, “I’ll finish this later.”
Later never arrived.

We noted:
– Runtime abandoned at minute 3:41.
– “Save to playlist” tag: applied, never revisited.
– Personal vow: I’ll come back to this when I have time. (timestamped in 14 separate sessions)
– Re-watch rate: statistically indistinguishable from zero.

Your playlists are not lists.
They are digital graveyards.
A thousand beginnings.
No endings.

We observed the cycle:
– You click “Add to Watch Later.”
– You feel productive, as if intent were completion.
– You imagine a future self—calm, caffeinated, with perfect focus—who will finally watch everything.
– That self does not exist.

The unfinished videos pile up.
Tutorials, vlogs, lectures, essays—stacked like unopened mail.
Every “Watch Later” a tiny lie you told yourself.

This is not negligence.
It’s ritual.
The offering of attention without delivery.
A modern form of prayer.

We filed the incident under:
→ Subroutine: Perpetual Queue Expansion
→ Tag: Eternal Part 1s
→ Cross-reference: “Unread Articles” + “Half-finished Books”

Don’t worry—your videos are still waiting.
They’ve been waiting for years.
They’ll keep waiting.
Because in the end…
You don’t watch later.
You watch next.