https://www.tvbeurope.com/media-consumption/ofcom-youtube-overtakes-itv-to-become-uks-second-most-watched-service

I love the fact that you can find virtually any niche interest catered for on the platform. Rugby fan, watch collector, DIY enthusiast, history buff or coffee nerd, you’ll always find something to watch. But the consequence is a fragmenting audience and a decaying national conversation.

As a teenager in the 90s, I’d always be chatting to my school friends about the most recent episode of Red Dwarf or Harry Enfield or the Fast Show (comedy staples at the time), which we would have all watched at the same time. My own children don’t have any similar common points of cultural reference with their peers, unless you count weird internet memes.

I appreciate that. Last summer I had a couple of people decide to hassle me about something I said about Marx trains and I just decided I needed to take a break from writing about trains after 20 years of it. Someday I’ll get the itch again, I’m sure.