Consuming constant clips made me feel stupider and lonelier. Thank God I’m old enough to remember a world before, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
I have experienced tiktok, Instagram and YouTube shorts after I got married. The content itself is what matters the most. The short quick video formait is probably a catalyzer or a helping agent. The amount of lies, fake science, propaganda, and most often horrible and dumb content is what causes the brain rot. As Dr. Ouajih puts it, with short form content you are exposed to thousands of subjects per day, an amount so high our brains cannot process it. If asked about what we just saw, we would certainly not rember. So now that we have trillions of subjects and a very short exposure to each one, it messes with the brain.
Add to that the algorithm that only cares about what gets you hooked and not what makes smart.
The observation I got on myself and people who got addicted is a severely shortened attention span. It got for me hard to watch a 20 min video.
If you did watch 100 shots about same subject, then probably not a big deal. But if you watched just 20 shorts about 20 different subjects then it affects your brain.
I have experienced tiktok, Instagram and YouTube shorts after I got married. The content itself is what matters the most. The short quick video formait is probably a catalyzer or a helping agent. The amount of lies, fake science, propaganda, and most often horrible and dumb content is what causes the brain rot. As Dr. Ouajih puts it, with short form content you are exposed to thousands of subjects per day, an amount so high our brains cannot process it. If asked about what we just saw, we would certainly not rember. So now that we have trillions of subjects and a very short exposure to each one, it messes with the brain.
Add to that the algorithm that only cares about what gets you hooked and not what makes smart.
The observation I got on myself and people who got addicted is a severely shortened attention span. It got for me hard to watch a 20 min video.
If you did watch 100 shots about same subject, then probably not a big deal. But if you watched just 20 shorts about 20 different subjects then it affects your brain.