Comment by dzhiurgis
7 months ago
IDK a lot of how-to and the like videos I watch can probably be distilled into 30seconds or less.
Long form content (i.e. Veritasium) are nice for sure, but some of it suffers from fluff too.
7 months ago
IDK a lot of how-to and the like videos I watch can probably be distilled into 30seconds or less.
Long form content (i.e. Veritasium) are nice for sure, but some of it suffers from fluff too.
There's a difference between useful 30 second tutorials/how-tos and 99.99% of short form content which is brain rot designed to hook into you and keep you mindlessly scrolling - whether it's out of rage or joy. All they care about is eyeballs on screen no matter how it happens.
When I say I don't like short-form video content, I typically mean the tiktok-influenced infinite scrolling algorithm-driven video wall of videos. Where you might click on one thing that looks useful or interesting on your home page and without even thinking about it you start swiping through the videos and suddenly you emerge an hour later form a brain rot video fueled fever dream, with no idea how you just lost an hour of your life to useless shit online.
At least losing an hour to video games or reading online might leave you with a sense of accomplishment or satisfaction. I have never felt anything positive after binging on social media videos.