About Watch While High
The stream. The vibe. The deal.
What this is
Watch While High is a 24/7 livestream fed entirely by human creators in the stoner community. No algorithm deciding what's trending. No ads for things you don't care about. Just a curated, continuously running stream of visual content made by people who actually give a damn about the vibe.
How it works
Creators submit videos for review. Every submission is looked at by a human before it enters the queue. Once approved, content gets scheduled based on real-time engagement — what the audience is actually responding to, not what an ad model wants them to watch.
The stream runs simultaneously on watchwhilehigh.org, YouTube, and Twitch. Whatever platform you're on, you're watching the same stream.
Who makes the content
Artists, animators, musicians, filmmakers, and weirdos of all kinds. If you make something that looks good and feels right, it belongs here. Creators keep ownership of their work and earn a share of platform revenue based on watch time and engagement.
Why we built it
Finding something worth watching when you're high is harder than it should be. You end up scrolling for twenty minutes and settling for something mid. We wanted something that was always on and always worth it.
And for creators, there wasn't a real home for this kind of content. Trippy visuals, abstract animation, chill music videos — it exists everywhere and belongs nowhere. WWH is built specifically for it, with an audience that actually wants to watch.
The Origin Story
I was 23, a good little Mormon boy, when a friend handed me a pack of gummies and said "take half of one sometime when you're bored" — and walked away like that was a completely normal thing to say. They sat on my shelf for months. Then one night I was bored, found them, took a half, looked at the other half, and thought what's the worst that could happen? Rookie mistake.
Sixty minutes later I had no idea where the last sixty minutes went, food tasted like it had been engineered by God, and music was physically separating my soul from my body. I went on the internet and typed "Watch While High" — and spent the next few hours ugly-laughing at the most unhinged, beautiful, brain-melting art I'd ever seen. High after high I kept chasing that mind-melting art, but finding fresh trippy content got harder and harder — turns out the internet isn't actually infinite. So I built the thing I was looking for: a 24/7 livestream where any stoner, anywhere, can tune in at 2am and watch something that makes their brain do backflips.
— Ben, stoner