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WRT spend as much time as possible, I see that in Youtube videos, we (or "the internet") are entering the era of "filler" as the dominant concept. We were in t
by VLM 4y ago
WRT spend as much time as possible, I see that in Youtube videos, we (or "the internet") are entering the era of "filler" as the dominant concept.
We were in the era of "social" a decade ago, then had some years of "notifications" as a spammy parasocial interaction, and now we're entering the era of "filler".
Its an open debate how "filler" relates to genres such as legacy TV morning variety "news" shows that are mostly press releases for brick and mortar retail intermixed with a rotation of lasagna recipes, vs filler as in some talented charismatic youtubers can take a concept that a talented speaker skilled in brevity could express crystal clearly in perhaps two minutes and stretch that out to fifteen minutes of ad revenue filler.
We're entering an era of rapidly thinning information density. Kind of like the inflation phase of Big Bang theory.