YouTube is a great time waster — your number-one destination for videos of kittens! —but it can also be used an educational tool. There are whole accounts devoted to showing you how to cook, or how to balance your chakras, or how to modify everyday items into weapons. But you don't always have to choose between fun and learning — these popular videos might make you laugh, but they’ll also help you realize that sometimes, it's just better to stay single.
10. Canon Rock
Why It Makes You Want To Be Single: There are certain basic expectations of you when you are in a relationship, things like talking to the other person or personal hygiene. But these things take time, precious time that you could be spending on your novel or your video parody of the new Miley Cyrus video. You can only get so good at something with those kind of time constraints, and you don't want to be good — you want to be great. Right?
9. Obama Girl
Why It Makes You Want To Be Single: Sure, lots of couples come up with their "list of five" for fun, but what do you think would really happen if you had the chance to get down with George Clooney and took it? When you're a free agent, though, you're always prepared to take that once-in-a-lifetime leap into the sack.
8. Charlie Bit My Finger
Why It Makes You Want To Be Single: A lot of people want kids when they get older, "when they get older" being the key phrase. As a parent, you can't simply watch something like the scene above with detached amusement. You have to, like, do something. (Even if "something" means "pick up the camcorder and get famous online.") You can still end up with a kid while single, but if you're not doing it on the regular, your chances certainly drop.
7. Bridezilla
Why It Makes You Want To Be Single: Maybe you're the kind of person who won't (or can't) celebrate your love with an actual wedding, but it's likely that you will eventually host some kind of party focused on your relationship. And with all the pressure of arranging food, guests, and decorations — compounded by the fact that the fete's success supposedly "says something" about you and your partner's future together — you might go... a bit crazy. And who wants to be that person?
6. Single Ladies
Why It Makes You Want To Be Single: Everyone has their particular hobbies, and we here at Nerve heartily support that — follow your dreams! But we can all agree that sometimes you discover that the person you're dating has an interest so far out of your own wheelhouse that you just can't go on. Maybe they duplicate music-video choreography in their bedrooms; maybe they paint with their own bodily fluids; maybe they watch Two and a Half Men. The point is, when you're single, you never have to find out.
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