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Have you seen the 2hour+ looping video phenomenon? My friends children introduced me to this. Their favourite videos are extended looping videos of the same 1
by cjf101 9y ago
Have you seen the 2hour+ looping video phenomenon? My friends children introduced me to this. Their favourite videos are extended looping videos of the same 1-minute content. Songs, or funny moments, whatever. Their favourite YouTube activity is to see the same thing over and over and over for hours. They react nearly the same way to the same thing for the whole time. I'd never seen anything like it, but their recommender feed was full of them. I guess the algorithm works.
The article hints at this, but doesn't really point it out, when they talk about children living to see the same kind of thing repeatedly, to try and figure it out.
I'd be really curious to see if this actually helps the learning brain, or hijacks it, preventing deeper understanding through varied examples.
- wcummings 9y agoJeez, that is kinda concerning, how old are your friends kids?
- cjf101 9y ago5 - 8. I was concerned at first. But there's so many of these on YouTube that have pretty high view counts, that my worry pretty quickly went from "my friend's kids are weird" to "kids are weird".
- danbolt 9y agoThis kind of reminds me of having a few favourite VHS tapes and watching them over and over as a little kid. I used to think it was disconcerting, but I also had peers that did the same and turned out alright, so I wonder if it's part of figuring out stimulus/work/gratification/reward/effort as a child and eventually growing into an adult.
- ryanchoi 9y agoWow. I've seen these on my feed and was sure (until now) that they were just jokes. Or maybe they are, and young kids just react differently.