u/Specific-Truck-2084

I've been wondering about this for a bit now. I told someone that I wanted to get into 3d animation and they said it's gonna be really hard. But then I told them my parents are upper-middle class and then they just said it's gonna make it a whole lot easier, which I personally do not believe. Just because u have money it doesn't mean your career in animation is gonna get easier.. is it? Idk im still in school and i don't really know much.

Edit: the last part of the title was cut off but i was meant to say "no matter how unstable the economy is"

title but is this happening to anyone else

Specs:

2023, 15 inch, 8gb M2 macbook air. I have over half of my storage remaining. I'm on the latest Tahoe update.

I don't use it for heavy duty activities. Just mainly using social media or scrolling, or playing games.

A long time ago, I fixed this issue somehow (I don't recall how) but it's beginning to happen again.

My main browser is opera gx.

This mainly happens whilst watching YouTube.

Heres what happens:
When I scroll youtube shorts, or really just open youtube on opera gx, it either crashes, or just freezes. Crashing is rare, and the spinning wheel happens and i can't use opera gx at all or sometimes not my mac at all.
Most commonly though, it just freezes. I can still open any websites, but the youtube video or short doesn't play and is stuck on the wheel (Not the cursor wheel, the YouTube wheel, or it just freezes with no wheel). My cursor is unlocked, and I can type or respond to things in reddit or any other social media apps. After a couple of seconds or sometimes minutes, it unfreezes. During the freeze, I can't change my volume, or my brightness. I can use spotlight though.

I don't know what changed, it just started doing it. It didn't start happening after I updated too, just overnight I think.

Any help would be heavily appreaciated!

Basically the title. Is there no way to change it??

Whenever I try to rtp, I just get bugged and the only way to fix it is to leave and rejoin.

A genie offers you a deal. You can instantly get 10 million dollars, tax free, no questions asked.

The catch is, you must beat 150 completely random gamers at any game of your choosing. They could either be really experienced at the game you chose, or be completely naive to what the game even is. They will have at least 10+ hours on any game(s). The game you choose has to be a game where you can fight and defeat other players. If you lose even once, you must pay a debt of 5000 dollars.

Do you take the offer, and if you are, what game are you choosing?

You are given a button, that when pressed, will give you the perfect life, 500,000 dollars a week (No questions asked by anyone, and tax free). Basically, you would receive what most people would consider a paradise. You can choose to be famous or not, depending on your life style.
But, 5 times a month you must experience for a full 10 minutes the most agonizing and painful experience of your life. These 5 happen all at random within the 1 month range. You will feel every last bit of it. You will feel the bones deconstructing right underneath your skin, your flesh contorting, your lungs getting pierced by your rib cage, everything in your body just starts getting morphed. It can go as far as bending reality itself just to torment you. You can not die while this is happening. After the 10 minutes, you will go back to your original self. You will remember the feeling of everything happening, but everyone else who saw what was happening to you will completely forget about what happened.
You can never get used to the feeling, as the deal physically restricts you from doing so.

Is it worth the mental trauma?

The industry is absolutely shit right now. Should I try uploading like animation content on youtube or something? At least is it easier than trying to get a job at a company? 3d animator btw.