For the first time in months, I'm occupied enough to not even think of Youtube, and when I look at it in the evening nothing appeals to me (the opposite). When I scroll on shorts, I just feel dissatisfied and close them.

But generally, I'm on there hours a day, enjoying none of it. Shorts, long videos, etc. I do the same with the front page of Reddit, even though 99% of the posts there bother me. If I block those, it's Hacker News, Facebook, or even LinkedIn. Ultimately, I think a lot of compulsions and addictions, technology or otherwise, come from a lack of purpose or joy in life.