Yeah agreed, but that presupposes that the person watching can distinguish someone just babbling and someone who actually is someone qualified to comment on some topic. And I guess the latter kind is a drop in the ocean, because expertise is a limited resource but opinions and bullshit are cheap.

Yeah in the best case it’s just a promotional teaser. Obviously you cannot explain anything non trivial in that amount of time.

Yeah same, I’ve tried many things but I managed to always justify to myself the purchase to make sure I’m not wasting too much money on stuff that will just use space and be unused. Still happens, but could be much much worse. Some things I come back from time to time, when the hyperfocus cycle brings me back to it, like musical instruments. Some things I only ever get the entry level stuff because I know I will move on way before reaching some stage where I need better equipment…

Yeah, useless time sink with lots of flashy distraction. The people who envisioned and built the internet surely did not anticipate it will evolve into THIS.

Ah so that is where this reference is from! I’m too uneducated / young, only played the GBA Generation games

Word. We should start a political party.

I love how someone can unironically not know what I’m talking about, even though I thought I’m a rare weirdo reading blogs via RSS feeds without actively using any social media except for reddit and lemmy

Reaction videos are the worst, in any form. I’m waiting for the day until there’s a reaction video loop referring to nothing than other reacts in circle and nobody knows what the actual underlying video was. The recursive reaction from hell.

That is what I thought looks like those speed reading techniques, but by force. So annoying. Not sure the “without loss of comprehension” is so true, all that I read says that speed reading is pseudoscience

This, 100%

I can’t get over how it feels like it wants to take over my senses.

I also hate voice messages. I ingest content on my terms and at my pace, thank you very much. And both rambling voice messages and short, absurdly dense but still shallow videos both disrespect me in different ways. One is usually too slow for my attention, the other too fast.

There are no videos or podcasts that are addicting to me, I like reading and writing more than listening. My ADHD brain can’t listen unless you talk to me in the right way to get and hold my focus, i.e. interesting information presented at the right pace.

Reading lets me be me - I can skim it, I can re-read it, I can find it later.

They should create vertical TVs. It’s insane, but at the same time, it would be actually less wasteful.

Being forced to watch hours of vertical videos on a horizontal screen is probably one of the rings of hell.

When one of your relatives films a family event for half an hour in portrait mode and later shows everyone on the TV.

If it is done in some tense scene in an action movie, it’s fine.

If it’s your default mode, it loses any kind of narrative effect and is just hectic + cheaper because you don’t need to many takes and just chop good pieces together -> faster and lower effort.

I have nothing against fast cuts as an actual artistic device.

Yep, that could be me!

Below the infinite trash stream of the algorithm there is still some actually good content in sane formats that does not taste like greasy mind fast food.

Fair point, clothing shorts are good shorts. The summer beginning is marked by me switching from jeans to shorts!

“nobody likes them but keeps watching them” - that confirms my theory that it’s digital crack. I intuitively want to stay away because I feel that it cannot be good for my brain

Made me crack up a little :D

I did not want to start a fashion war here :O

Haha shorts, as in short pants, I actually like in summer :D Did not want to insult a perfectly fine piece of clothing. But it’s also totally cool not to like them ;)

I don’t know how these below 2 minute videos are called in general, like the Reels, TikToks, Shorts, it’s all the same thing to me (or I don’t know the difference)…

I totally feel you. My wife was also confused why I suddenly was somehow frustrated and angry. Glad I’m not the only one.

Death by a thousand one-second cuts

With an ad blocker there are also no ads on normal YouTube ;) and there is even an extension called sponsor block that can help skipping over in-video ads