IT sounds too good to be true – being paid to sit in front of your computer watching animal or funny viral videos on YouTube all day long. But for a group of Finnish teens who earn up to €15 (£13) an hour doing this, it’s a reality. Neverthink is a kind of online telly, set up in November 2016 by two friends from Helsinki, Aviv Junno and Claus Nurro. The pair initially started it as a side project for themselves, as they thought it “would be cool if it were possible to watch YouTube and Reddit like you would TV.” On the Neverthink site, you can choose one of 32 channels to watch (like “Food”, “Documentaries”, “Comedy”, “Fails” or “Memes”) and you get served up an endless playlist of YouTube videos around that theme. It’s just like TV – you can’t fast forward or skip videos, and the channels always play a constant stream of clips, back to back. If you get bored of what you’re watching you can just hop between the channels to find something else. Massive success The idea behind it is that all too often, you sit down to watch something on YouTube – perhaps over dinner or after work – and end up so overwhelmed by the choice of videos that it takes you half an hour to decide what to watch. That’s where Neverthink comes in – with the online TV service, you just choose a channel based on your mood – and… [Read full story]
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