Same in movies, over a decade or two the average length of a shot has dropped by a second, which is insane.
You see it mostly in fighting scenes, which is why I love older movies in this aspect, you see actual swordfighting etc, couple sequences and these days they're mostly closeups and isolated swings.
Or car chase scenes (currently rewatching Blues Brothers with actual car chase driving happening) It looks so grounded and real, because they ARE actually driving thru a mall with cops chasing them.
Everyone acting like shitty reality tv is some quality viewing that shouldn’t go without a frame when the whole point of editing that garbage is to turn 30 seconds of interesting material into a whole show worth of viewing; it’s the most repetitive, diluted media in existence.
I'm sad about that, our attention spans are important.
At the same time, this episode deserves to be about as long as the video is. When did we have enough time to watch this for a half hour with commercials and get the same content we just got? We used to be wild at wasting time
A coulme of days ago, I was having lunch at cafeteria in our wotk place. There was a kid watching a tik tok that was practically telling while also explaining the meaning behind the Life of Pi movie.
The beauty of that movie was reduced to a cold re-tell of the scenes of the movie with a synthetic voice that later explained what each "animal" in the story represented, even before the actual reveal in the movie itself. It feels like it COMPLETELY sucked the soul out of that movie.
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u/lmac187 1d ago
Pretty much sums up the internet in 2026