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It’s not a mystery. Attention is moving on from TV to phones. I personally spend more minutes on Instagram Reels than watching actual TV content. Most of TV sho

by msoad 4y ago

It’s not a mystery. Attention is moving on from TV to phones. I personally spend more minutes on Instagram Reels than watching actual TV content. Most of TV shows are boring and filled with uneventful minutes. I’m in my mid 30s. Probably much worse for younger folks.

nickthegreek 4y ago
I spend alot of time on youtube and tiktok throughout the day and I'm in my early 40s. Its not til after 8 or 9pm that I will flip to streaming. Contrast that with my youth, where TV was playing constantly.
drewg123 4y ago
I'm in my early 50s, and I honestly spend about 60% of my video-watching on YouTube, 15% on IG and TikTok, and 25% spread among Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, Prime, etc. I really should start being a serial canceller.
ghaff 4y ago
Viewing habits can switch. I don't watch YouTube a lot and don't even have a TikTok account. But a fair bit of my fairly light video watching (maybe 8 hours a week or so) has switched from movies to streaming TV.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  8 hours a week doesn’t even seem that light. We certainly have weeks (well, I. My wife loves YouTube) with fewer hours watched.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    That's assuming I'm at home and aren't going somewhere on evenings or weekends. That's probably more like a max than average.
Apocryphon 4y ago
There is truth to this, but if it was fully true than Quibi would've taken off.
A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
I will admit that this is news to me, but I don't have that many friends with Instagram ( and I suppose that means my social circle is pretty narrow ). Aren't those so short you basically just make an animated gif equivalent? Is it just the question of advertisers going where eyeballs are?
yamtaddle 4y ago
This is ridiculous. The correct way to handle this is to put the boring TV show on, play Pokemon on your Switch, have your phone there for chat and looking up stuff about your game and doomscrolling-breaks, and only pay full attention to the TV at most 5% of the time.
- diydsp 4y ago
  ya mean to say TV is going the way of music? that is t say, it's becoming an adjunct source of perceptible data to fill in those small potential gaps where we might unwillingly brush up against the desert of the real?
  - yamtaddle 4y ago
    Oh, it's been that since at least the 80s. It's just that now the other things we do during it are also on screens.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    A lot of people have always liked to turn the TV on as background. If anything I would think that would be less common today if you don't have live TV. Personally, it drives me crazy. Back when I would sometimes have a shared hotel room on a group trip, something that would drive me crazy was the person who, first thing upon entering the room, would be to head straight for the TV and turn in on.
P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
I've been slowly making my way through the Walking Dead season 10 on Netflix. I legitimately will skip probably 60-70% of the episodes. They'll seriously skip from one scene of super-slow angsty bullshit to another scene with other characters involved in super-slow angsty bullshit. I watch just enough to get the point and then skip the next 5-10 minutes until the next scene shows up, at which point I'll watch just enough to get the point ... ad nauseum. ---- It doesn't have to be like this, but JFC I'm not interested in someone spending 10 minutes expressing what a normal human being would express in 1 because the producer thinks slowing their speech patterns down to .0001x is somehow more dramatic. I cannot wait for this trend to pass because it's absolutely not just the walking dead.
- layer8 4y ago
  Right, they now stretch story arcs over a whole season that used to be an episode or two two decades ago.

by msoad 4y ago

nickthegreek 4y ago

I spend alot of time on youtube and tiktok throughout the day and I'm in my early 40s. Its not til after 8 or 9pm that I will flip to streaming. Contrast that with my youth, where TV was playing constantly.

drewg123 4y ago

I'm in my early 50s, and I honestly spend about 60% of my video-watching on YouTube, 15% on IG and TikTok, and 25% spread among Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, Prime, etc. I really should start being a serial canceller.

ghaff 4y ago

Viewing habits can switch. I don't watch YouTube a lot and don't even have a TikTok account. But a fair bit of my fairly light video watching (maybe 8 hours a week or so) has switched from movies to streaming TV.

Semaphor 4y ago
8 hours a week doesn’t even seem that light. We certainly have weeks (well, I. My wife loves YouTube) with fewer hours watched.
- ghaff 4y ago
  That's assuming I'm at home and aren't going somewhere on evenings or weekends. That's probably more like a max than average.

Apocryphon 4y ago

There is truth to this, but if it was fully true than Quibi would've taken off.

A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago

I will admit that this is news to me, but I don't have that many friends with Instagram ( and I suppose that means my social circle is pretty narrow ). Aren't those so short you basically just make an animated gif equivalent? Is it just the question of advertisers going where eyeballs are?

yamtaddle 4y ago

This is ridiculous. The correct way to handle this is to put the boring TV show on, play Pokemon on your Switch, have your phone there for chat and looking up stuff about your game and doomscrolling-breaks, and only pay full attention to the TV at most 5% of the time.

diydsp 4y ago
ya mean to say TV is going the way of music? that is t say, it's becoming an adjunct source of perceptible data to fill in those small potential gaps where we might unwillingly brush up against the desert of the real?
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Oh, it's been that since at least the 80s. It's just that now the other things we do during it are also on screens.
- ghaff 4y ago
  A lot of people have always liked to turn the TV on as background. If anything I would think that would be less common today if you don't have live TV. Personally, it drives me crazy. Back when I would sometimes have a shared hotel room on a group trip, something that would drive me crazy was the person who, first thing upon entering the room, would be to head straight for the TV and turn in on.

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago

I've been slowly making my way through the Walking Dead season 10 on Netflix. I legitimately will skip probably 60-70% of the episodes. They'll seriously skip from one scene of super-slow angsty bullshit to another scene with other characters involved in super-slow angsty bullshit. I watch just enough to get the point and then skip the next 5-10 minutes until the next scene shows up, at which point I'll watch just enough to get the point ... ad nauseum. ---- It doesn't have to be like this, but JFC I'm not interested in someone spending 10 minutes expressing what a normal human being would express in 1 because the producer thinks slowing their speech patterns down to .0001x is somehow more dramatic. I cannot wait for this trend to pass because it's absolutely not just the walking dead.

layer8 4y ago
Right, they now stretch story arcs over a whole season that used to be an episode or two two decades ago.