It's a central part of any relationship

I got married even though it meant waiting for every restaurant meal to be photographed and posted to Instagram before I could take a bite.

One of those moments when I'm glad my wife cares almost as little about social media as I do.
- Hell yeah. My partner and I only take pictures of meals we’ve made ourselves when we’re super proud, and occasionally when a piece of sushi looks extra good. Neither of us are into social media.
  (Also neither of us make each other watch things on our phones. We just take a note if something sounds interesting and pull it up on the big screen later.)
They are very concerned with the question "What did you have for dinner last night?"
We are not going out to eat often if I gotta wait for the perfect photo. You better get the waiter to take you back to the kitchen if you want snapshots of the food before I see it and take a bite.
Why did you do that?
- I'm guessing it wasn't a deal breaker

My wife tells me dad jokes. Really really terrible dad jokes. Ones that make me roll my eyes, and I'm a dad. That's how bad they are. But they make her laugh so I'm ok with that.

i have a tip to get back at her. whenever her phone rings, make sure you say 'its for you'. i still find this hilarious after 15 years . she is less amused, but at least im entertained.
- Have you ever said it and it turned out to be someone calling the wrong number? Are you ever worried she'll flip it on you and conspire with a friend to have them call you on her phone?
  You're playing a dangerous game, friend.
Please for all that is wonderful in the world start telling me every. Single. One of these.
Or convince her to just start telling me them. I need the ammo to crush my rivals

My wife shows me wayyyy more videos on her phone than I show her on mine

Most of the stuff I share is still images/comics/gifs etc

Same. It takes a very special video to get me to turn my sound on. Definitely more of a static content feller
Mine shares reels, every 19 seconds she has something new to show.
I try to share useful information from youtube but she doesn't have the attention span to watch them anymore.
So it's a one way road and i'm trying my best to just nod and smile at the reels while keeping focus on the information i'm trying to contain from the long form video. It's a bloody warzone sometimes, "hey, look haha. Hey, look haha. Hey, look haha"...can you give me 10 minutes please? And then she's pissed at me.
Short form content...i want my old wife back, can you please remove yourself from existence. You ruined her.
- Mine even acknowledges that I hate tik tok videos while shoving them in my face. And when I'm not being shown videos, I'm getting filled in on some petty drama that no one should give a fuck about.
  The app has turned her into an extremely negative person.

Nah, I'm too Gen X to watch videos on my phone, let me pull it up on my laptop.

Videos are a big screen activity.
- For me it's more that youtube videos are a browser with an ad blocker activity.
- Have you really lived until you have watched a hour long marble race while cuddling
- But not a the biggest screen you have activity. That is reserved for movies and TV shows.
- I know, right??
- At least medium screen.

I showed this to my girlfriend and she was like, "I don't get it, why are you showing this to me?"

babe wake up new 3 and a half hour video essay about plagiarism just dropped

Which one?
You lied to me. This will make me reevaluate our current relationship. You have gone from stranger to 'take with a grain of salt' stranger.
- 😔

I believe, it's possible to marry women, then you don't have to watch videos on a man's phone. 🙃

More like having a phone shoved to your face to see a meme that is mildly entertaining at best.

True, but in return for her smiling at my memes and nodding politely at my rambling about my various Stars, both Wars and Trek, I stop what I’m doing to watch her capybara TikToks and try to remember what she tells me about the history of Hiphop beefs and how to guess the geographic origin of rappers.
This is what marriage is, and it works. 😂
- Yeah and sometimes it just rubs off on each other, like I was never the gardening guy but her enthusiasm about it was infectious and now I find myself getting excited about how many tomatoes a single plant can grow or what beautiful colors the tiny corn poppies can produce.
  And the other way around - a friend gave me a 'Quark' shirt for my birthday and my girlfriend said 'ugh ferengies are so ugly, couldn't he have given you a Spock shirt, I like him more' and I was soooo proud of her.
  You just learn to enjoy their excitement about their boring shit until you start to share the excitement and you start to enjoy the thing too.
- and how to guess the geographic origin of rappers.
  Do tell
My wife is always showing me years old memes and I have to pretend they are not basically oil at this point

My Chinese girlfriend makes me watch Chinese Xiahongshu (think Instagram reels) videos on her phone with a cracked screen with her. No, I do not understand Chinese.

My wife with Spanish Instagram. But to be fair, I'm on duolingo learning Spanish
- Check out Dreaming Spanish's method and content (Comprehensible Input)
  Over a year at it and my progress has been amazing. About 1000 hours now. (though I need to do more speaking...)
  I can understand everyday speech, TV shows, books more than well enough to enjoy them thoroughly. I still get lost sometimes but that's expected at this stage.
- My Filipina wife makes me watch English YouTube shorts. But to be fair, I make her so stuff she doesn't want also.
- I'm learning Mandarin and I can understand some pronouns

And I don't want to be made to watch TikTok videos.

Fortunately TikTok broke their mobile website, so nobody can share links with you and expect you to watch them if you don't have the app, and I make it abundantly clear that I'll never install that trash.
- You can turn your mobile browser to desktop view and it loads fine. You don't need to tell them that though 🤫

I don't get it.

"men bad lol"

If i know you and you're in my general vicinity youre gonna be watching a YouTube video even if you're married to someone else i'm a slut that way

A man can get into a lot of trouble, if he doesn't watch the endless tiktok reals with enthusiasm and excitement.

Showing me the weird shit you watch on YouTube is a requirement for me, I want to know what videos you watch when you're alone and bored with nothing to do.

I hope you like documentaries about completely random shit from politics of a foreign nation over 300 years ago, to how an obscure campaign of a war over a hundred years ago was fought, a full biography of a fictional character and what events they may have been witness to, to a plethora of asmr things as background noise, engineering deep dives and video game related content.
- I show my girlfriend videos about how car indicators work.
- Its not about me liking it, its about knowing about what intensely interests you, but that just sounds like a conversation with my mate, so I'm in for that.
- Sploosh
- Matt's Off Road Recovery
Bobby Fingers' Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama is the first weird video I'll share. Good litmus test for the relationship I think.
Enjoy lots of archaeology videos and old movies.

So just get married, and watch videos on your wife's phone.

Astonishing that there are dipshits who managed to be offended even by this.

There's plenty other reasons that disqualify me from marriage but sharing videos on my phone is not one of them

Relationships are about compromise.

But yeah, maybe not worth it.

"I either don't want people to be interested in or excited about things or I want to gatekeep how they gain their interests"

"Even moreso if it's a man."
- Found some incels 😂😂

My wife is incapable of not showing me an escalating series of inane youtube videos unless I get rather firm about it.

My ex would blast Instagram stories while I’m watching a show on tv. That’s fucking annoying

Are you kidding me? My fb chat with my wife is nothing but memes and videos from her

I guess people don’t know the stand-up comedian Blair Socci yet. She’s kind of funny but I have a feeling this was an idea for a joke that isn’t fully formed. A lot of comedians use social media to workshop their stuff…

I liked Blair's "appearance" on the Bad Dates podcast.

Seems like there is a solution she hasn't considered. Marrying a woman who has and uses her own phone. It won't be "a man's phone" then.

Or a man that doesn't use a phone, only a laptop.
Or a non-binary that doesn't use any technology.
Or a clone of herself, that way she's just showing herself her own phone.
- Clones stop being you the moment they are created, assuming they had your memories in the first place, which isn't scientifically plausible.
  Please be serious about this 🙄
We don't know that she hasn't considered that option.

Babe, wake up! NEW ROMAN AQUEDUCTS LORE JUST DROPPED!

Don't have a kid. You'll be made to watch videos on their phone. For hours' worth of your life.

If it's exclusively David Attenborough documentaries, then that's okay.
- It is not. Although it does involve lots and lots of animals so they can tell you how cute they are.

Wow at least i have adblock and sponsorblock some people rawdog youtube and that frightens me.

What's wrong with men's phones? Is she afraid of fucking cooties?

I'm classy. I make my partner wait while I get it on the TV so they don't have to move.

This what we do. It's convenient to have chromecasts on the TVs throughout the house, so that if you're talking about something, you can just throw it up on the closest screen.

I'm a man who hates watching videos on my phone, but I'm already married. I'll ask around tho.

That's why I send my memes to my wife's phone. so she can view them on her own phone.

Me: "Remind me, which ingredients do we need again?"

Spouse: hands me a 10 minute youtube video

this is a peeve of mine. we all have these incredibly connected mobile communicators. we all know how to copy and paste a link. if you want me to watch something, send me a link. im happy to review on my device but damn do i hate looking at anyone elses screen.

Even the person you love? Because I'll look at anything my girl wants to show me on her phone because I love her and enjoy her company. If you're talking about a stranger (which this post is not talking about) then I get it, too many strangers have shown me porn for me to trust random people when they ask to show me what's on their phone.
- I'm sorry what?
- yes. in fact, especially the person ive spent > 20 years with (volume). we have a family chat server, so we share links over that instead of me looking at her phone.
Microsoft tried this, IIRC, but the one thing that's technologically possible that I desperately need is the SciFi concept of "throwing" content to another device. Like in The Expanse, where you swipe in the direction of a device, and it sends that content to that other device. Swipe toward your friend, the file gets sent. Swipe towards a TV, the content comes up on the TV. Heck, I'd have swipe toward my speakers and play music.
What would we need? Phones already have compasses and GPS, so the vector information is there. We have UPnP, for announcing services; we have geo recording servers like OwnTracks; every smart phone has gesture capability. We'd need a couple standards: adding geo information to UPnP; choosing a fucking universal sharing protocol (instead of the current dozens of niche protocols); and a little UI enhancement. We could have this, but instead we have walled gardens and no broadly supported standards. It's infuriating.
- Uh, oops, I meant to scroll within this app, but instead I've just sent porn to some girl on the bus
  Oops, I meant to scroll up but instead I've sent our company's sales figures to our client sitting in this meeting
- The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”

But then you get to show him all your videos on your phone

There's this nifty feature on phones now where you can send a link to the other person's phone. My wife and I text each other stuff from the internet all day long.

If only there was another option... kinda like a gal pal that would do that weird thing with the wisk and the cattleprod, and didn't try to show you their monster truck videos on a broken Galaxy 4.

Ah well, that must not exist, guess that's that.

You seem like a lot of fun

I bet you're fun at parties.
- That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.

then why are you even getting married

Xor?

If you can’t handle my 20-minute Fat Electrician videos, you don’t deserve me watching your reality television shows with you.

I have a strict no videos policy.

Then I hope you're okay with your partner sharing YouTubes with other people.
- Youtube cheating? Maybe they can be poly-Youtube.

That's what screen projection is for

Casual sexism is so cute and quirky.

It's not gendered behaviour though; not even stereotypically. Works just as well if you flip the genders.
It is when it's against men 💅💅💅
- Also removed’s and removed’s and removed’s, am I right fellow non-bigot?

Its cool, we can watch them on the TV instead

Sometimes it goes like this https://youtu.be/o9EWf-wXQ3o

All I have to do is ask too many questions or mansplain or argue with what she’s watching and she’ll tell me to go away.

Yeah I ain't ever getting married again.

No fucking way. I worked too damn hard to give half my income to my ex for the next few years.

Y'all can do what you want, but make sure your incomes are comparable. It's not worth it to be so heavily one sided

Didn't ask

i have never once sat through a youtube video someone insisted i watch on their phone because it's sooooooooo funny and thought "wow, that was a great use of my time"

yes, there is some funny shit on youtube. no, your idea of humor is not the same as mine