With cable TV, you might click around while finding something to watch, but when you found something to watch, you'd watch it, for multiple minutes, until comme

With cable TV, you might click around while finding something to watch, but when you found something to watch, you'd watch it, for multiple minutes, until commercial break. Then, you'd either sit through the commercials, or press JUMP to go back to your "backup channel", with something else you'd want to watch while you estimated the duration of the commercial block on the first channel. The point is, you were being exposed to novel content at a much slower rate than you are when you scroll through your short-video social media feeds. It already wasn't a great situation to begin with, as far as attention spans are concerned, but this new age of short video social media apps has undoubtedly exacerbated the issue.