Hell I like to think my brain isn’t that rotten that I can’t handle watching a long form video. But I’m literally scrolling through comments and reading them while the video plays in the top of the screen.
The issue with vods isn't that they are too long, it's that they lose the benefits of watching live and as a result suffer from boringness when there isn't content.
like the other guy said, stream vods have way too much dead air in most cases. not that bad when you're watching it live because there is chat and you also dont know how long the dead air will last, but usually its like a 3rd of the stream being nothing interesting
Speaking of long form content that deserves full focus: Scavenger's Reign is an amazing and artful adult animation on Netflix (it was cancelled by HBO). I recommend everyone that likes the studio ghibli style art and alien worlds to watch the first episode after you finish big A's video (can't get distracted and prove him right). I'd recommend watching in 3 episode chunks (1-3, 4-6, etc.)
The only time i genuinely felt an overwhelming urge to scroll tiktok during a movie was during the Oppenheimer sex scene which I was watching with my parents and little brother on iMAX
It's funny because I wanted to watch Killers of the Flower Moon with my gf and we're both Indigenous, but she ended up falling asleep. I was still pretty involved, but did not realize it was 3 hours + lol
the twitch chat movie theater experience sounds like such a good idea!! i'd literally go to one of those with my friends just to have us all connect to it and mess around sending really goofy reaction messages
also i feel like there's too much resistance in the market to meet brainrot where it is with products. everyone's so focused and hung up on the idea that everything can and should just go back to normal. and maybe it really should, but there's not much of any effort being made towards stopping the brainrot, so if that's the way the world is gonna be, people should be trying to innovate ways that at least meet people half way and capitalize off that rather than just banking on things going back to normal
2:03 - there is a bit off wiggle room there that i am trying to work with they now have vertical lives on the shorts feed, i think it's very underutilized currently
I look forward to someone making the first TikTok-like movie. Just an hour and a half of someone basically scrolling through a short form video service with a narrative slowly revealed via a bunch of different people making videos on the same subject.
This will sound zoomer-ish lol but I think the future of books/novels lies with a feature in the webnovels app. The books there are amateurish and poorly structured at their best, but I could go through 200+ chapters of ass story telling just bc each paragraph has its own mini comment section. So at each hype/fun moment people post memes or theories at that specific paragraph. It just makes it feel like ur not just reading alone which helps retain ur attention span more. Its like a virtual always active book club with memes lol.
Facts: I live in Scotland, seen some clips about Letterkenny years ago. Finally watched some episodes with my friends during a lockdown discord call, and ended up buying the box set for like£80, with almost £30 shipping.
I can't even read chat when I'm watching someone's stream/clips, but I think the in-theater chat is a pretty decent (and simple to implement) idea. just get a regular computer and a projector that can go as tall as the main screen, Then have everyone join a chat room. Might have to build an app that only allows bluetooth/local wifi connections, though, to prevent online chat raids. Make it its own offline wifi network so most phones can't connect to data while you're there, win-win. (And if you do it with an app, you could require camera access just to prevent other apps from recording while active. Easily surmountable, but a slight hinderance to piracy).
On youtube for iPad, you can long press to speed up the video to x2 and let go to go back to normal. That feature has broken my brain. In any other video platform (netflix, twitch, etc) I have caught myself long pressing on the screen to speed through the more boring parts of the content.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned videogames. I’m planning out my entire day tomorrow to run straight through The Final Shape when it drops at 10:00 my time, only stopping to drive into town to pick up medications and get dinner. Maybe it’s different because they give dopamine on a steady drip as opposed to the quickness of short form but it seems to be something that’s slowly being chipped away by short form in some ways. Daily Challenges have been a thing for a long time
I'm a big movie fan to the point where I average like 20-25 movies a month. When I watch movies at home I do check my phone occasionally but just to scroll in the slower moments maybe once or twice. I really like seeing movies in theaters as it forces me to keep my phone away and just focus on the movie experience. Movie theaters need to add a feature where they create an uber like rating system where you can rate the people around you. So if they're nice and quiet you can give them good points or if they're on their phones/talking they get bad points. Then the people who get rated lower get stuck with each other in the movies until they behave and get higher ratings.
the part about shorts training your brain to check out as soon as your bored is so true. i am insane and watch shorts on desktop for no reason??? brainrot??? but it has trained my brain to press the down arrow to go the next video even on normal YT videos. it happens so often even not on youtube. I'll be watching netflix and notice myself press the down arrow or reach for it the SECOND that i get bored.
Atrioc any chance you could upload these to Spotify as short podcasts? They would be great to listen to during my commute but I don’t wanna have a video up while I’m driving.
Really? Am i the only one noticing the opposite, the rise of 3 to 5 hour videos on youtube has never been this frequent, and honestly i welcome it, when it's good of course
@@ruruisuThis is exactly what I use it for 💀 Put a 4 hr vid in the background for sleep. Eventually pass out. Next night I put it on again, guessing where I left off from what my sleepy brain remembers, watch from that part, pass out. Repeat. It works honestly 😭 I may not remember all the points made but at least I finished it
thats different. content creators are realizing that theres people who prefer long content and will play the entire vids just for some stimulation since they cant be in silence for 2min
Companys just make up their own lore, then don't accept fault and find the issues and what to fix, then figure out how to make it work Irl, then find what the problem is in lore, then find a find a solution to a fake problem, just to justify their mistakes and employment for infinite growth to investors, a post apocalypses desert car spin off of several spin offs in a movie series that's like 50 years old randomly plopped out on a random day after dune and the fallout show with no cultural desire with no stuff with it like a game to make cultral desire which last mad max game was so mid it didn't get dlc and it came day one with a dlc screen and the company went bankrupt, and people just thought the movie was ok, then the suits just made up everyone wanted to watch it and it was the best thing ever and made up a problem to fix and blame on to shareholders lol, if a cool cowboy movie with no wired angles to it with fun marking came out tomorrow with Chris Prat it would make a billion dollars there's no problem to fix.
About a year ago I cold turkey stopped scrolling through shorts. I still watch things that pop up in my recommended, but I don't scroll anymore. I don't have any scientific evidence, but I swear I'm happier overall.
Unironically watching anime helps with not getting distracted by my phone because you have to watch the subtitles or else you lose the dialogue and get lost
I learned most of my english from RU-vid when I moved to the US. I started watching every single video in 2x speed WHILE learning English so brainrot has been the norm in my life for the past 10 years. Watching 2x speed as a 9 year old really did a number of my brain.
I'm glad i didn't use short too much. I just watch short if something is interesting and caught my eye. Just once and no more for the day. It is a problem, like the future movie probably gonna have action all the time and less character development with dialogue and chill atmosphere. Just like the Fast and Furious
12 minutes vid. Time to play the vid at 2x speed. I went to a resort in Cancun for a week with the sole intention of reading a single book, but I ended up not doing even that. My brain is truly rotten.
On the focusing/one-screen topic: I was going to say video games are immune to this, but bro that isn't even true. Last year I played a combined ~300 hours of TotK and BG3, and I checked my phone during every loading screen (or long walk in the case of BG3). That was at the peak of my RU-vid shorts consumption, which I have thankfully fully curbed.
I do a much more sane version of that book tik Tok chat at 10:00 where I read a chapter then watch an episode of a show and just keep alternating all day. I'm sitting here thinking that that's brain rotted but 💀
Personally im just not a short form video watcher, I do a lot of that fake multitasking type stuff though. I love playing a video game with something in the other screen. But I mostly watch youtube stuff thats in the 10-20 minute range. I see the odd youtube short but honestly hardly any, maybe 10 minutes total of shorts in a month. never used tiktok at all, though I have seen some tiktok compilations here and there if you count that. oh and I look at reddit pretty much every day, though I'm not really a phone user so it's mostly desktop and I still use old reddit, so while there are plenty of short videos they're not in the "infinitely scrollable" format.
I remember when I swore off short form content during all of covid but then as soon as covid ended I got hooked and nowadays I'm fucked by instagram reels
10:56 sure but it always depends on what exactly you mean by "multitask". is it doing two things at the same time? - that's easy. Is it "focusing on" two things at the same time? - that has been proven impossible. Is it switching between multiple tasks somewhat quickly? - that is not impossible. Also, receiving information through your eyes on one topic and through your ears on another topic doesn't nearly split your attention as much as when you would perceive multiple sources with the same sense.
Also I saw Killers of the Flower Moon twice in theaters and I will say that imo the movie is great and well paced except the last hour or so which feel like it drags on so much, and I did feel that the Irishman did the quiet depressing ambience after a betrayal way better and timely than Killers. Ps: Glad to know I am slightly less brain rotted than the GlArketer himself.
Long Form content isn't dying because long videos are now played in the background. I'd happily watch a 6 hour VOD (in the background) but will struggle to watch a 2 hour film.
Yeah it's honestly kinda sad because I've noticed that my sister scrolls RU-vid/TikTok whenever she can and now she can't sit down for 5 mins to play a board game or watch a movie with the family... It's a problem with a lot of teenagers that isn’t really being addressed and will cause this new generation to barely function as adults
I have a 10 minute limit daily on TikTok and a modded RU-vid app on my iPhone to hide shorts, trying to prevent the brainrot as much as possible, my dad ends up spending more time on reels than I do on short form video 😅
I've almost never been able to focus on just one thing without getting bored, but i have a disability, not sure if everyone else gets that same excuse lmao
During Ludwig's subathon I tuned in every night to watch video game high school. Honestly, I really enjoyed it, and would probably not have discovered/watched it on my own.
Just watched this while playing rocket league and got bored between 2 matches (like 30seconds waiting time) and played a match of brawl stars on my phone
how would a streamer watching a new movie on stream lead to more sales for the movie? No one is gonna watch the movie for free on stream and think they are gonna go out of their way to buy that film or get a subscription.
Its the STUDIOS putting out SUMMMER BLOCKBUSTERS EVERY SINGLE WEEK. No one cares about blockbuster when its literally every week. Where are the indies, where are the $30 milllion films, where are the $50 million films. They are barely out there at the threates. We are becoming desensitized to these movies that are $100 million plus films. I remember 10-12 years ago i could see an indie in that was made for $500k to $1 million in a theatre. Man, can't recall when I saw movie made for less than $50 million in the last 4 years in a theatre.
If I have the option, I always watch things at least 2.2x speed. If they have a clear English accent I will bump it up to 2.7x-3.3x speed. It is a skill you can improve. I still watch live sports/ livestreams but if I can I always speed it up.
no but legal watch parties would be such a great feature. not so much about the loneliness for me but watching something with someone else even through a screen is just a lot of fun. i feel like the insane popularity of react content should already be proof enough that this is a shared sentiment but i guess studios are just really iffy about copyright,,
