How come in the 90’s when I was a teenager from California I would watch the same vhs tapes over and over and get entertained each time, now I find it difficult to even finish a movie let alone watch it multiple times, i’d lose interest and go on my phone.
Did we get mass ADHD or something? I know some of you feel like this too
huh? Sorry I wasn't paying attention
The internet has murdered all of our attention spans.
the mobile internet specifically
weed
Because you've been conditioned to receive on-demand dopamine hits.
film is slowly becoming an outdated form of entertainment.
the fuck? i challenge you to go to a showing of the nun 2 and not feel the energy in the room
back in the 1700s people used to gather around a new painting and look at it for hours just like it was a film. Now people dont even look at one for ten seconds, and even less try and actually figure out what its trying to say.
It's always funny to see people speedwalking through museums and art exhibits and the first thing they do is post about their trip on kikebook
You ain’t lying
This. The visual medium is changing and our attention spans are shrinking
this should have been the prequel trilogy... the third film should have been vader in his suit for the entire thing.
If I tilt my head down at that angle my chin disappears into my neck, and I'm rail thin.
That's a sign of poor maxillofacial development.
See the work by John and Mike Mew.
Did you have poorly aligned teeth, too? Or sleep apnea? Or allergies?
VHS was a commitment. You had to sit and watch the thing. You couldn't skip scenes without getting up and slowly fast forwarding it.
The problem is people wish we still had video stores, but when they forget that DVDs don't have the same type of durability as VHS did. I've rented some at a store in my old town and they'd be scratched to hell.
Ya it was you risked getting the tape stuck too
That never happened to me. Well, it did. But that was because someone put crayons in the VCR.
>Did we get mass ADHD or something?
We got installed ADHD. (ADHD probably isn't real, anyway).
Especially when Faceberg debuted videos, it counted a videos that autoplayed while scroooling, if they went for over 3 or 5 seconds, as that video being viewed. They told advertisers and "content" producers that ultra-short media was taking off, along with things like vine and music.ally (softcore pedo karaoke heaven) and snapchat that were taking off around that time.
So facebook said that these videos were actually being watched when they were just being scrolled past, and used that to pump up their advertising numbers and thus revenue.
They said that ultra-short videos were successful so that it'd be more believable.
Content mills like buzzfeed, as well as cracked, and israelite york times et al all pivoted to ultra-short videos.
There was a huge lawsuit for facebook over this, but the industry-wide damage was done.
Now of course, we have Douyin: foreign subversion export model, a.k.a. "TikTok".
That works to further limbic-system hijack.
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Just meditate and learn to do one thing at a time, and focus on one topic at a time without context-switching. "Multitasking" is bullshit, especially the more masculine or autistic you are.
Relearn how to read too.
Anon may have written a brilliant post, but tragically it is too long for me to read now.
Read this article
https://www.spaywall.com/search/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Ffacebook-reaches-proposed-settlement-in-video-measurement-lawsuit-11570482031
about the lawsuit.
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TL;DR
Facebook counted auto-playing videos playing for three seconds or longer as watched.
This wasn't believable for long-form content, and manipulated it saying short-form content was getting watched.
Buzzfeed and every other content mill, college humor for example, all had their "internet engagement" staff saying that short form was all that was working, so everyone industry-wide for TWO YEARS pivoted to sub-minute content, when facebook knew the lie just a month after facebook autoplaying videos debuted.
When I was a kid it was either
>Jurassic Park 2 Lost World
>Toy Story
>Ninja Turtles 2
>The Wedding Singer (I stole it from my dad and loved it)
Every single night at bed time
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You got stupid anon, it’s as simple as that so don’t go roping the rest of us into your spaz shit
>How come in the 90’s when I was a teenager from California
Why are you 50 years ago still browsing Cinemaphile?
But seriously, why is your larp so low effort?
>Why are you 50 years ago still browsing Cinemaphile?
you will be here for much longer
I assume alot of old people be on this , we was here since about 2006
You were raped and now everything you use to enjoy is stained
Buy a cheap CRT and a cheap DVD/VHS player, that's what I did. Ransacked my old video collection at my parents' house and I'm watching Scooby-Doo atm