David Pierce, writing at The Verge, has a post about weirdly long “nothing: videos on YouTube.

In a way, I’ve come to see “24 hours + of pure black screen in HD!” as a perfect microcosm of YouTube. YouTube is part entertainment platform, part information library… and part tools repository. It can soundtrack your day, teach you how to beat any game or solve any problem, keep your pets entertained while you’re gone, or transport you to just about any place on earth. A blank screen video is a productivity tool, plain and simple.

One can use YouTube in a wide variety of ways. Personally, I like long colored noise channels like this one. It’s perfect for when I want to zone in on something I’m writing.