YSK that 71 studies found the more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety
1mon 9d ago by lemmy.world/u/Vanadel in youshouldknow
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/
Read a book. Watch a movie.
Short form video is a cancer. I literally use add-ons to block YouTube shorts and I don't open Instagram unless I have a DM.
It's too easy to just find yourself killing minutes of time in a sort of weird stasis where you aren't really entertained but content is being thrown at you fast enough that your brain is constantly asking questions so it stays engaged. Even though it's screaming out that it's getting nothing out of this we stay because it's easier than leaving.
It's literally visual crack. I'm done with it. Short form video very very very rarely offers anything of substance and my time is better spent just pretending it doesn't exist.
Any browser plugins you could recommend?
Yup, and short form video has enhanced the ability for designers to figure out what cues and sounds and patterns of images poke and prod at your brain just right to keep the content on your screen.
It’s similar to the psychology used for casinos and video games.
Highly processed and optimized audiovisual product.
God I wish I could block those shorts on the iOS version of youtube. I would even pay to have the YouTube client block these completely as opposed to making them “sorta” disappear for like 10 minutes.
Here is the entire article, for those of us who can focus through the entire text:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-89350-001.html
Correlation, not causation. It's possible - likely, even - that people who have difficulty with focusing or controlling their anxiety are more likely to use TikTok, since that is a platform that was designed to cater to such an audience
No kidding. This is the same type of stupid bullshit they said about video games causing violence in the 90s. Im sure there are a ton of people who will read this headline and then go out and talk about how youtube is making kids these days more stupider and not more smarter like us.
What’s the TLDR?
Shorts bad.
TikTok good.
https://xkcd.com/552/
I've been scrolling short form news since the early days of '90s slashdot, I think it has effected me in good and bad ways.
Do you have an example of a positive effect it's had on you?
ai use also causes brain damage
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/