9 Things You’ll Catch Your Lebanese Parents Watching on YouTube

Are your parents as YouTube addicted as ours? Despite the fact that they routinely tell us to get off our phones, our GB consumption tells us just how many hours they spend streaming random shit on YouTube. Here are 9 things you’ll probably find your Lebanese parents watching on YouTube at any given time.

1. Cooking Videos

How to cook crispy chicken exactly like KFC? How to do mjadara 3al taree2a el souriye? Some parents will take the extra step of writing down the recipe on a scrap of paper that will be lost within the hour.

2. Auditions from The Voice Kids

At full volume. At 8 AM. On a Sunday.

3. Did you know that [insert random show or idea] is a Satanic message?

The Simpsons. Winnie the Pooh. Timmy Turner. All Music. Every TV show ever made. That film you love. Everything kids consume is the product of Satan, according to your mom’s YouTube suggestions.

4. Hacks and scams

Charge your phone with a Banana. Cook chicken in under two minutes with this one quick trick. Bitcoin. Please make sure your parents aren’t falling for any financially crippling scams.

5. Anything with helicopters or planes

They’re hypnotized by those wings and blades.

6. Two Minute Promos of Turkish Series

Finding those Arabic subtitled full episodes can often be a pain in the ass, so don’t be surprised if you see them watching 2-minute promo videos of their favorite Turkish series.

7. Abraj

Yi ma 7a e2dar waslak 3al madrase lyom berje al fi shi mish mnee7 naterne 3al taree2.

8. Old TV Clips

When I was 16, this was a banger.

9. Old Music

When I was 16, this was a banger. When I’m 48, this will still be a banger. Fayrouz and Oum Kalthoum here we go!