youtube addiction

I have experienced some addictions before. I've experienced an addiction to terraria, a game kind of known for being addictive. I've experienced an addiction to osu!, a rhythm game that many people deem to be addictive, just as much as say the 2 popular video games by riot games. I've experienced sort of an addiction to clicker heroes, due to a minor amount of fomo (also, it has had memes dedicated to how addicting it is).

The difference between those, and youtube, is that eventually, I started engaging with those things less and less. With youtube, it's been repeatedly chaining me in time and time again, and I've lost count of the many mental breakdowns I've had over that. I've tried so many things to rid this addiction. I've tried blocking the site, but guess what? I can't go a SINGLE day without deciding to unblock it. I've tried looking for other websites to entertain me, most notably newgrounds, but still, I feel the pull of youtube the same. I've also tried putting myself in complete silence for a prolonged amount of time so that I'd be content with boredom, but even that doesn't work. This fucking website/app is more addicting than porn, and I am not joking. With porn/fapping, I've successfully managed to keep it at a once per week minimum most of the time, but this is because there is a benefit to doing that once a week over doing it every day. With youtube, having only one day a week be a youtube day is 1/7th as rewarding as having all days a week being youtube days. I don't know about smoking/vaping/drinking/nicotine, but rest assured it is probably equally addictive as youtube or less. I'm not even mentioning other social media/video sharing websites, most notably, tiktok, which I beileve 99% is more addictive (and certainly more damaging) than youtube. Thankfully, I have never used that app ever, and I will never use it, unless on the strict policy of only making promotional content, and the ccp falls.

I wouldn't be talking about this if I didn't feel the need to fill up my life with meaning, but I do. So, give me your recommendations to stopping my youtube addiction, and I will try to follow them, if I already haven't.