Why does a black screen for 24 hours have over 40m views on YouTube?

A video titled "24 hours + of pure black screen in HD!" has racked up 40.2 million views on YouTube. It's a black screen with no audio, why the hell are people watching it? Apparently people play this video "so that my laptop doesn't shutdown while downloading games", or "so I can have music open on another tab at night and have this open so the screen with the music on it wont shine so bright in my room" and someone even said it is "the perfect video to cast to your tv when you're too tired to get up and turn it off". Wow, okay. That's certainly an approach to those problems I had not considered.


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