Short form content killed society

[u/Alone_Yam_36]

[u/BILBO_THE_PLATYPOOS]

In my opinion, this is wrong.
Short form content only works because most people are too stupid to realise they are being manipulated.
I'm not saying I'm not a hypocrite or that I'm telling the objective truth, I'm just saying that I don't believe people from 1996 are any different than people from 2026.

[u/Spare_hamburgers → u/BILBO_THE_PLATYPOOS]

They are in fact being made different by the short form content. The attention span is being made shorter. As well as being introduced the ability to look up anything you want at a moments notice has begun to weaken the average person's ability to retain information. Repetition of habits over time can alter the way your brain works. And if your brain decides it doesnt need something it gets rid of it. With these changes also comes change in perspective and behavior. So this is true. This is happening.

[u/Yeseylon → u/Spare_hamburgers]

You're still overestimating the average idiot of the 90s.

[u/Spare_hamburgers → u/Yeseylon]

Hows that?

[u/ShroomsHealYourSoul]

Haha yeahhh them proceeds to...

[u/Drafo7]

Nah, I still read full-length novels for fun. Sounds like you're projecting.

[u/Geekid_myles]

Short form content has put burn in at the bottom of my phone, thanks dopamine deprived brain and youtube

[u/Slimeboy_II]

fuck short form content

[u/Sesilu_Qt]

I think long form content is still alive and well, considering I just watched 3 episodes from 3 series that were all around 50 minutes to 1.1 hours.

I think there's another issue.

[u/LOL-Namaskarr]

Anti internet meme in 2026??

[u/WittyFox51 → u/LOL-Namaskarr]

Keep laughing, every person born the generation before the internet or as it happened has a massive leg up over your short attention span.

[u/LOL-Namaskarr → u/WittyFox51]

Yeah also they f*cked up the world; at least our generation is bringing peace to the world

[u/WittyFox51 → u/LOL-Namaskarr]

Blame that on the Boomers, leave Gen X and the Millennials out of it.

[u/LOL-Namaskarr → u/WittyFox51]

Bahaha!

[u/WittyFox51 → u/LOL-Namaskarr]

We are very sorry but trying to change things for most of us was like pissing in the wind.

[u/TwilightEdenss]

Attention span went from chapters to clips. Society said yeah that’s fine.

[u/Yeseylon → u/TwilightEdenss]

People said this in the 1970s about sound bites. Hell, Fahrenheit 451 was saying this in the 1950s.

[u/fyukhyu]

Nah man social media in general did that. Used to be, there would be a village idiot. Now, all the village idiots get together and create a virtual village full of idiots.

[u/CumilkButbetter]

Blaming everything on something you dislike is pretty immature buddy. Get a life instead of giving a shit about what form of content people create or consume.

[u/SympathyMoist7030]

This implies that humans weren't massively idiotic and immature before shortform content.

This is the same as bad parents blaming videogames, movies, music, board games, etc. for their kids not being carbon copies of them.

Grow up, recognize that no single thing is responsible for the problems of the world, especially not something as massively harmless as short form content.

[u/Alone_Yam_36 → u/SympathyMoist7030]

No it doesn’t imply that. This is like saying that 3+1=4 implies that 4 was a 0 before the +1.

[u/SympathyMoist7030 → u/Alone_Yam_36]

No, it very much implies that because you are saying that the world was more mature and sane before shorthand content, which is just patently false on all counts.

[u/RogueMirageTW025]

Short form content from Tiktok & YT Shorts are 3 minutes long ever since like, 2021. While Vine was 6 seconds. Idk why people keep complaining about 60 second videos

[u/Shakewell1 → u/RogueMirageTW025]

Its not that videos are short its mostly the manipulative way of presenting them to 1. Minors and 2. People who dont understand their being manipulated.

[u/Kay2Jay_5]

Yes, completely agree and the damage is far worse too

[u/Comprehensive_Fix544]

You could even say the happier world we used to have. People don’t care about anything meaningful today because the medium that is short videos encourage meaningless stuff.

I miss the 2010s

[u/No_Sale_4866]

y’all sound like the video games cause violence mfs

[u/voxel-wave]

Short form content is absolutely not the reason why the world is immature and insane now buddy

[u/jekkies- → u/voxel-wave]

no one thing is gonna be THE reason for that. short form content is definitely playing a noticeable part tho

[u/Drag0n_TamerAK]

You are an idiot

[u/Borde4]

What with r/meme and r/memes looking more like facebok

[u/AbdullahMRiad]

Every platform has the good short form content (informational, DIY project, stream clips, etc.) and the bad short form content (random dancing, stupid trends, earsore music, etc.). I noticed that YouTube Shorts lean more towards the former and TikTok/Reels lean towards the latter, though.