I don't get the point of YT shorts. (Well, I do, but I wish I didn't.)
People can view them quickly on their shoe phone. 1 minute chunks of dopamine.
Yes I get that. I just think it promotes the quick consumption of "disposable" content, which is a wasteful behavior and contributes to degrading the attention span of people, which is already down to an alarmingly low level.
TikTok didn't create wasteful behavior. Without a phone perpetually in hand when out and about they used to call it day-dreaming, but now you can watch a short video. But if it is a funny video that takes 30 seconds to view what is the difference between that and reading the comics in the newspaper? Maybe sheer volume perhaps.
That comic Dave posted is just what I was expecting Dilbert to evolve into. I'm slightly happier that it wasn't an actual Dilbert cartoon because it wasn't even trying to be funny or even deep and insightful.
I watched nearly a whole episode of coffee with scott adams when trying to find out the reasons behind Dilbert getting dumped. At well over an hour it was a test of my attention span given what I thought was unedifying and tiresome opinions being force fed to me. I skimmed about 3 others so I suppose that proves my attention span was degraded afterwards.
I'd much prefer to watch someone blasting rock and crushing it for roadbuilding, or dragging a rusty forgotten excavator out of a forest for an hour. Which I'm prepared to concede is productive for them but disposable content and wasteful behavior for me. But at an hour at least it doesn't degrade my attention span.