@@Murimzit makes sense when I stare at a roof sometimes it feels like I went through half and hour of calmness even though I only did it for like 10 mins. I don’t do it often though
Also can be good for the eyes. Staring at something like medium/far off for a while after having used a screen for some time helps prevent your eyes going bad
NL the type of guy to ride his stationary bike everyday for two hours while watching kino cinema. He stays off TikTok/YT but is chronically on twitter which keeps him connected to the most up-to-date tiktoks/memes for his hits. the dad/homeowner stuff is what balances out the twitter scrolling i.e. yard work or weekend community center activities. moral of the story: scrolling twitter is distilled contextmaxxing
Yeah that's what I was thinking, NL is not like other streamers in the sense that he spends a lot of quality time with his family and does normal dad stuff. Meanwhile most streamers live in LA, don't have kids, and only interact with other streamers. NL is simply not as susceptible to brainrot as they are.
Just imagining 2 coworkers having a serious heart to heart over lunch and all of a sudden cronchtrioc pierces through the silence. To their horror they turn and see he is only on his first broccoli floret of 17, but already lost deep inside his mind palace.
Honestly that hit close to home in the wrong way for me when he said "I'm never gonna have access to this stuff at home" unironically why I think my drive for the school lunch a la carte vegetables was so INSANE
There was a 14 day survival in the wild show in germany recently where some streamers participated and all streamers said not the hunger, cold or anything like that was the worst but just the boredom
@@Drawfield delete youtube. genuinely, try it. delete it and leave a gap on your home screen, so you know what you're doing everytime you impulsively open you phone and tap where it used to be. you can install it the day after if you want but it's worth it just to realise
Honestly I remember a lot of moments from my childhood where I was just bored out of my mind for extended periods of time. I'm only 24 but I can at least remember a time before everyone had cellphones. I don't really miss it at all, boredom is hella boring.
Here’s an alternative perspective: 1. **Helpful Aspects of Boredom**: - **Creativity and Problem-Solving**: When we're bored, our minds seek stimulation. This can lead to daydreaming, which, surprisingly, enhances **creativity**. Boredom encourages us to think beyond the mundane, explore new ideas, and find innovative solutions to problems. It's like a mental playground where creativity flourishes. - **Self-Reflection and Insight**: Boredom provides an opportunity for introspection. When we're not busy, we can reflect on our lives, goals, and emotions. Insights emerge during these quiet moments, helping us understand ourselves better and make positive changes. - **Motivation for Change**: Feeling bored can push us to seek novelty. It nudges us out of our comfort zones, encouraging us to explore new hobbies, learn new skills, or take risks. Boredom acts as a catalyst for personal growth. 2. **Detrimental Aspects of Filling Boredom with Social Media**: - **Superficial Relief**: Social media seems like an easy escape from boredom. Scrolling through feeds, watching videos, or liking posts provides instant gratification. However, this relief is often superficial and short-lived. - **Time Drain**: Social media can devour hours without us realizing it. Instead of using boredom as a springboard for creativity or self-improvement, we get lost in an endless loop of content. Our precious time slips away, leaving us unfulfilled. - **Comparison and Inadequacy**: Constant exposure to curated lives on social platforms fuels **FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)**. We compare ourselves to others, leading to feelings of inadequacy, dissatisfaction, and isolation. Boredom, when filled with social media, exacerbates these negative emotions. - **Shallow Engagement**: Social media offers little challenge or skill development. It's a passive activity that rarely rewards us with a sense of accomplishment. Unlike completing homework or pursuing meaningful tasks, mindless scrolling lacks depth. In summary, embracing boredom occasionally can lead to personal growth and creativity. However, substituting it with mindless social media use may hinder our well-being and prevent us from discovering deeper passions. So, next time you feel bored, consider picking up a book, trying a new hobby, or simply allowing your mind to wander-it might just lead to something remarkable!
Songs have been getting closer to 2 minutes since around 2016 with the rise of Soundcloud and in general independent music. TikTok has definitely exaggerated it, but it's been getting there for a while now
my biggest wake-up call to being brain rotted was trying to play a video game on my actual old 3ds system. I didn't realize how much playing ocarina of time 3d sped up on an emulator with youtube on the second monitor was melting my brain. I think reading is really going to make a massive comeback for people who need that to get grounded like you were saying
On god, I have severe ADHD and I still have better attention spans than short form content kids. I grew up on early YT and still mostly consume longer form video content, which definitely helped.
i got into TikTok at school but i graduated and i listen to podcasts and audio books at work from like a very wide variety of sources, im repairing myself, i cant watch a movie alone without sewing or something tho😭
I know I am insanely brainrotted when i started watching youtube videos minimized on mobile while actively scrolling through my youtube feed like i did with this atrioc clip
You know you've watched to many vods when you start remembering the repeat stories he tells... bro starts saying "when I was in college I would fill up a bowl..." and Im like yeah yeah with the greens and shit, no dressing or whatever. Then I catch myself and realize Im the problem, time for a break
In France it’s common to see blackout shades built into the windows (controlled by remote). I’ve woken up at 10am thinking it was 5am It was glorious. I miss it
I bought those black "construction paper" blinds from Amazon when my old blinds broke. They are super cheap to buy, but they block out all of the light. I had to get rid of them after a week and a half because I woke up late for work once and I also could not tell if it was day or night time whenever I woke up. You don't realize how much you tell time by sunlight until it get blocked out completely.
Fr, the paper style blinds are so good. I've had a pair of blackout curtains in my room since I was a kid, but adding these inside them is literally how I make my room into pitch black for doing film photography stuff
Bro around 4 minutes I wanted to pause the vid to go read Guards! Guards! But I'm feeling called out so Imma continue watching. My brain is truly rotten
I definitely have the movie issue, or even with shows. I’m constantly skipping sections, keeping just enough context to understand what’s happening but not actually watching it.
I would love to see a deeper dive on the impacts of shortform content and being targeted by the algorithm. In the past couple of years, I've been slowly deleting social media to the point where I only have RU-vid and Strava remaining. RU-vid adding shorts was brutal for me, and I had to remove the app from my phone to avoid compulsively scrolling when bored. I've also disabled all notifications and ads on every device I can, and do the no phone in my bedroom thing. Doing so has had a very positive impact on my mental health, and I wish I could help others who are currently struggling the same way I was.
I feel like I can spend my entire work day fucking around on my phone and the second i speak to another person I dont need to see it again for the rest of the day.
It feels so weird to me that i have 0 attention span but i can 2tick teak in runescape while listening to a 100bpm metronome while counting 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,... for like 10h straight with no problem
1:39 Then there's metal songs that are 7+ minutes long and don't get old. I know it's 80's and not applicable to the arguement but there's songs like Master of Puppets that feel like 2 songs mashed into one; in both length and mood/composition. I think it's just pop music that is getting more braindead, because other more niche genres are still going strong. It makes sense when most of the songs that blow up in popularity from TikTok are songs that are specifically marketed for being ADHD levels of short. It's working both ways, the artists are filling the need and TikTok is rewarding it with high levels of exposure.
The shorter length of songs isn't necessarily an effect of shorter attention spans. There's a financial incentive for artists to release albums that contain more, shorter, songs now because music streaming platforms pay them per streamed song, not per second.
I quit all social media except RU-vid because it was just too much for me. I grew up with very restricted access to the internet but when I turned 18 and was allowed full access I immediately got tiktok and it was all downhill from there. especially during school, which was very rough for me, I'd be skipping classes and endlessly watching tiktok without breaks and during the weekends I'd go 6+ hours straight on tiktok/twitter, etc. After about a year of this I decided to cut it all out and I don't even watch RU-vid unless I'm home. At work I only listen to music in my car on my breaks and at home I only occasionally watch RU-vid- but I occupy my time with other things or sometimes I just do nothing at all. But seriously, I had full internet access for like 2 years and those 2 years fucked with my head a bit, but honestly ever since I quit it my thinking is a lot clearer, my sleep is demonstrably better and I'm a lot happier now.
As an ex shorts addict, only thing that got me to stop was every time I saw a short on my feed I would tap the three dots and say not interested. Now I never get them recommended and I just never open the shorts tab. Noticeably cut down my time on RU-vid
Oh my god the music one. Songs that are 3 minutes long feel like an eternity, if im listening to a song from 15-20 years ago or more they take like 30 seconds to actually get into the song and its like i just wanna skip ahead, or ill be 2 minutes into a 3 minute song and i know its just gonna repeat the same chorus i already heard and then fade out for an outro so i just skip to the next song. If you listen to any newer music you'll see that they're fully into the song and going within the first 5-10 seconds
6:00 this is crazy to me. The only thing that keeps me from just sitting down for half a day and going through a whole book is having to eat and sleep, and other responsibilities lmao. I can't imagine needing to force yourself to read, I just end up doing it. Like, I'll sit down at 13 with a new book, and look up 12 hours later and go "oh not again" after having finished reading that book.
Whenever you try to find a tiktok video that you didn't like, you go through you watch history, and every time you think that the video you watched was like 15-20 videos ago, until you realise it was like 85 videos ago that your brain didn't register, you were just mind numbingly watching
This is honestly what finally made me delete Twitter off my phone. Up until last year I never used the "for you" section, but I broke while bored abroad and since then I constantly had the urge to just scroll it whenever I was even slightly unentertained during a youtube video or game cutscene
I definitely try to test that I can stay focused on something without constant attention grabbing. I'm not to the point where I can't watch a movie, but I do consciously avoid checking my phone during slow parts. Especially when I'm watching something boring, like Sleep Has Her House. I treated it as a sort of meditation session, and it was nice to know that I'm capable of doing that. One of these days I'll watch Empire :)
I've never been able to handle boredom I learned to read and walk at the same time so I didn't get bored walking to school I'd stop if i noticed anything odd over my book and only look up when i needed to cross the road and when I got near the sign that I walked under that was less then head height, now I do the same thing with my phone going to work.
Bruh i remember racing raindrops down the window, counting my freckles, reading multiple books a day.......... walking, driving, working, studying without a youtube video playing in background. Micro-boredom is real amd i hate that you had to point it out.
The boredom part reminded me of a, now relatively old I guess, vsauce video. He'd have people waiting in a room for an appointment, with a button that would shock them next to them. When asked beforehand everyone was very certain that pressing the button just to get shocked was not something they wanted to do. After just a couple of minutes of waiting with nothing to do basically everyone ended up pressing the button, many multiple times. Our brains hate boredom so much they'd rather have pain than lack of stimulation. This was of course on a different time scale than short form content, but I think it shows how we're wired to fall into the brain rot trap of just constant scrolling searching for any kind of stimulation.
i used to watch RU-vid shorts, but after a while I realized I was learning literally jack all compared to long form content while also destroying my attention span, so I gave that shit up, I just don't click on shorts no more.
I feel the movie stuff so hard, but I can’t tell if it’s because I’ve watched so many of them that most new movies are highly unoriginal or if it’s really just a lack of attention span.
growing up i was only allowed like an hour of screentime per day, so clearly this sucked i needed to get more youtube videos in that hour so i would watch on 2x speed. horrible habit i know, but i hold it to this day, i am so thankful though i think its literally the only thing that saved me from tiktok. idk why i literally cannot watch stuff like that on 1x speed. if im watchin a movie or something i can handle 1x speed but like anything directly creator made like that i just can't.
for me its the speed of videos thats been really hurting me. i generally stay away from short form content, but my preferred video speed is 2.5x, 3x if im going to dedicate all my attention to it. it makes it hard to follow lectures when im expecting my professors to talk fast, whereas they talk so slow that i end up zoning out. the staring at a wall thing actually works. if youre so bored, youll realize that you can be less bored by doing (productive thing), so you go and do said productive thing.
My friend will be on his phone the entire length of the movie or show - and I mean the entire length - and then ask what happened at random points. Also, me and our other roommate were the ones with ADHD not him. I love him but his brain has been napalmed.
I think I am going the opposite route because I watch every single RU-vid short all the way through even if it doesn't really interest me all that much
Basically at a point it was. But i just did it because dr k reccomended it lol, some ppl were saying im a heroin addict or sum lmao but i was just chilling.
I’m slowly watching all of my friends become less tolerant towards everything in life - I’m the only one trying my hardest to not use any short form content
Most games force you to focus. I'm sure they're damaging in someway but shorts are definitely worse for your attention span. Watching short content is like speed-running brain rot.
Here’s a fun challenge for you (the comment reader) to try. Start a timer for 3 minutes on your phone. Put your phone away so you can’t see the timer. Don’t touch your phone until the timer goes off. Focus on the feelings and urges to pick up your phone. Try not to give up the challenge that some random RU-vid commentor just gave you. Let your mind wander. Feel pride if you can do it.
I honestly do think that the 'short attention span' thing won't last for very long. It's better for social media companies to prioritize longer form content to some degree as it's good for engagement. Even Tiktok has started making changes to make longer Tiktoks more profitable. I don't think this is the solution obviously but I think we've seen near the worst of the short term content brain rot.
Also I am in gen z and none of my friends struggle with short attention spans and don't use tiktok and youtube shorts. One of them does stare at the wall for extended periods of time too so maybe theres something else going on there
I definitely think that some games are brainrot. Like all those mobile games that solely consist of grinding, or flashy big budget stuff where the actual gameplay is extremely simplistic.
@@Tomzin20 I agree, but in this case some stay long after Atrioc addresses them, and sometimes don't match the chat message he's actually referring to.
