>Why keep attention spans any longer than necessary to evoke some response?... Wait a minute. This is hardly a recent TikTok/Chinese invention. Hasn't american

>Why keep attention spans any longer than necessary to evoke some response?... Wait a minute. This is hardly a recent TikTok/Chinese invention. Hasn't american TV been doing this for decades, with commercial breaks every 10 minutes? And surely the trend for online attention-deficiency and general dumbing down can be traced back to the likes of Twitter, with its text message length thoughtfarts and [as with most other social media] responses that eschew the use actual words, in favour of clicking on a 'Like' button, or some moronic emojis. All TikTok has done has channelled this vacuuity into video.