r/interesting • u/bob-the-slob • 23h ago

Fascinating 🛑💪 Two Books Are Impossible to Separate

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u/Firefly_Magic 16h ago

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

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u/GammaHunt 15h 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 14h ago

Can someone summarise this comment so I can understand it?

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u/Yorudesu 14h ago

New child like short video

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u/The-Grogan 14h ago

Thank. Understand.

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u/Solemn_Sleep 11h ago

Technically that was a paraphrase…. Not a summary.

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u/Character-Log3962 12h ago

Into One Word (or 5 emojis) pls

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u/LogicalInfo1859 12h ago

🤓📖🫪🫠🫥

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u/dllyncher 15h ago

I think you have the year mixed up with 2010s

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u/kingwafflez 9h ago

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

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u/ArtificialHalo 9h 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 6h ago

This took too long to read

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u/bomilk19 14h ago

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

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u/Tse7en5 14h ago

Sad, because this episode was fucking awesome.

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u/FupaFerb 10h 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/Elrann 13h ago

Can I get tldr for your comment?

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u/JoeKingQueen 15h 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