American Teens Have Developed ‘TikTok Brain’
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This isn’t just a chinese thing, this was the end goal of all social media platforms (and the government agencies behind them)
Yea, I've said it before: MK-Ultra was child's play compared to social media.
MK Ultra was the predecessor to Social Media
Watching internet shorts legitimately destroys your brain.
Does it matter what kind of shorts? Are we talking clips?
Just asking "what kind of shorts?" is a good start. Watching something that interests you and stopping is bound to mean you're engaging your brain more than if you're just channel surfing.
Yeah it can be good in isolation, but the format of short 5-10 second clips with automatic algorithmic feeds is horrible. I suggest getting the "blocktube" extension to block shorts on youtube from showing up at all.
lol ok boomer tl;dr
drink bleach, fucktard
I think he was joking, but you lived up to your username for sure.
These short videos provide a quick dopamine hit. So we crave the next video immediately. And on and on. It’s addictive. And ultimately destructive.
It’s teaching us to have attention spans of just a few seconds.
The sad truth is that Tik Tok is just the most potent form of this. Even social media like this site will damage attention spans, especially with the karma mechanism. I'm trying to combat this by making sure to set aside time to read long form content.
I don't like using my phone for games or videos, and those programs run horribly on desktop, so I guess I'm largely immune. But I feel for the poor screenhuggers.
The caption style on tiktok gives me tiktok brain.
Where they rapidly place (and replace) 2-3 words directly in the center of the image instead of posting nearly-complete sentences at the bottom of the image.
Is it just Tiktok or other forms of media as well? Like Facebook. Or YouTube. Or this site and the various red pill sites?
I wouldn't expect it to be the same issue here since the way you browse content is different. You're looking at a topic introduction, then a discussion on that topic, and not just scrolling through an endless stream of topic introductions without giving yourself time to consider any of them. You're building on a foundation, not just placing the first brick over and over again.