BS I can totally hold my attention longer th
I would say so. My concentration spans decimated, it’s either this or drinking. Or stress.
I mean, if the article is going to insult skibidi toilet right off the bat, baselessly I might add, it’s hard to focus on evaluating how our media consumption is actually changing our cognition, according to the article.
Old people yelling at the cloud, as is tradition for every single generation before and likely many to follow.
This „Badger badger badger” song was the funniest shit ever when I was young. The only difference is that this one was an Adobe Flash applet while the new stuff is high definition video since we have more bandwidth now.
What do you mean “was”?
Mushroom mushroom!
YOU’RE just a bunch of shapes and colors!
Never seen this. Thanks!
Now, now, young one. You simply lack the taste and sophistication to appreciate the depth inherent to badger badger badger.
The sharp, minimalist vector graphics of badger badger badger gave it character and pedigree. Not like the tiktok junk of today.
And you had know how to install and patch browser plugins and computers required knowledge. You had to know about the URL and share it on MSN messenger. Not like the brain dead smartphone apps used by modern teens.
If you want to witness the last vestiges of human intellect swirling down the drain, hold your nose and type the words “skibidi toilet” into YouTube.
This is the first sentence. Ohhh the danger of skibidi toilet!!! So dumb. Who takes this boomer crap seriously? lol.
Bonus points for linking to their old (citationless) article about email. It just shows how they roll out this nonsense every couple years with the latest tech.
And if you browse through the actual studies mentioned, they don’t actually say what this article claims. It’s a conflation of “doom scrolling” with various internet addictions, etc. where the studies are fairly vague.
I hate it too. Kids have always had dumb media and that’s fine. I don’t think all those flash games and animations harmed anyone.
Dang, that is a sweet earth you might say.
WROUNGG
Yes, well, my spoon is too big.
While the article is crap, the phenomena of “brain rot” does exist. The brain is like a muscle in this regard; if you never challenge it, it deteriorates. There’s even links to increased chance for neurodegenerative sicknesses in such cases. But we have this at least since TV, it’s nothing new with the internet.
This article gets so close but it feels like it goes right past the actual point.
Profit motivated tech companies are weaponising psychology to dominate your time. There’s nothing stopping them from turning your reward system against yourself. Plus given this time is generally being spent on passive consumption, of course people are gonna end up dumber—brains need exercise just like the rest of your body.
Regulation is basically the only way to remedy this (beyond actually nationalising these organisations) and unfortunately it’s gonna have to be American regulation for the most part, which I’m not gonna hold my breath for under the next administration
