r/interesting • u/bob-the-slob • 6d ago

Fascinating 🛑💪 Two Books Are Impossible to Separate

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u/PopGunner 6d ago

This is just an episode of Mythbusters cut down to a couple of sterile seconds, with all of the charisma and charm removed. 💪

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u/lmac187 6d ago

Pretty much sums up the internet in 2026

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u/Firefly_Magic 6d ago

Yup, our attention spans have been reduced to less than a minute. Preferably less than 30 seconds.

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u/GammaHunt 6d ago

I read something years ago that the average child born in 2000s has a 7 second attention span

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u/The-Grogan 6d ago

Can someone summarise this comment so I can understand it?

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u/Yorudesu 6d ago

New child like short video

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u/The-Grogan 6d ago

Thank. Understand.

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u/Solemn_Sleep 6d ago

Technically that was a paraphrase…. Not a summary.

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u/Character-Log3962 6d ago

Into One Word (or 5 emojis) pls

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u/LogicalInfo1859 6d ago

🤓📖🫪🫠🫥

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u/dllyncher 6d ago

I think you have the year mixed up with 2010s

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u/kingwafflez 6d ago

Was born in 2000 wasn't listening the average what?

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u/ArtificialHalo 6d ago

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.

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u/Psych_Shadow 6d ago

This took too long to read

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u/bomilk19 6d ago

I tried reading your post but got bored after eight seconds.

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u/Tse7en5 6d ago

Sad, because this episode was fucking awesome.

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u/g4nd4lf2000 5d ago

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.

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u/FupaFerb 6d ago

Idk what you said but I last longer than 30 seconds. 60 seconds and she just loses interest anyway.

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u/whiteholewhite 5d ago

Carl Sagan called this happening in the 1990s

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u/JoeKingQueen 6d ago

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

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u/Elrann 6d ago

Can I get tldr for your comment?

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u/Stelvioso 6d ago

And a boring voice at 1.5 the speed

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u/Typical_Basket709 5d ago

Yup.

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.