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Your Attention Sucks

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  • Apr 25, 2022
Hoog
@romulushoog
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This is a video on attention grabbing (particularly on YouTube) and how it harms what would we consider "high quality content."

I have no dogs, so I'm not saying that I'm right on this topic by any means, but I have seen a lot more discussion surrounding social media platforms manipulating our attention more than I've seen discussions on the content that is on those social media platforms.

From TikTok to Mr. Beast, to the channels that try to emulate him, what we see time and time again is that the content we consume is incredibly attention grabbing, and there are some tricks that are constantly being used, like rapid cutting or rapidly revealing text.

Sources:

I'm working on a website right now, so once that is up the sources will be posted there.

For now, sign up for the newsletter at www.romuluseurope.eu, so that I can notify you once the sources are up.

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Title: Air Hockey Saloon
Title: Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To
Artist: Chris Zabriskie
Link: https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/a...

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Blake Robbins @blakeir · May 5, 2022
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the best video essay that I've seen this year is from @romulushoog "Your Attention Sucks" A thought-provoking exploration into how the algorithms of YouTube, TikTok, etc. reward certain editing styles, content, etc.
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