Short form internet content is essentially candy for your brain. Best if you consume none of it, acceptable in small doses, ruins your life when consumed in excess. You can actually feel yourself developing ADD while you watch that shit. No surprise that younger generations require prescription drugs to fix their brains enough to function in our society.
It's the worst when it's algorithmic and autoplaying. Short videos by themselves are fine, but when they just keep playing and your brain goes into autopilot it's basically putting you into a trance state.
Short form internet content is essentially candy for your brain. Best if you consume none of it, acceptable in small doses, ruins your life when consumed in excess. You can actually feel yourself developing ADD while you watch that shit. No surprise that younger generations require prescription drugs to fix their brains enough to function in our society.
It's the worst when it's algorithmic and autoplaying. Short videos by themselves are fine, but when they just keep playing and your brain goes into autopilot it's basically putting you into a trance state.
Well youtube shorts basically only works that way. it's supposed to be tiktok or whatever.
The shorts from creators I like are fine. A lot of em are previews for their longer videos. So what?
Block YouTube shorts with a browser extension for YouTube and avoid all these problems.