12-10-2024, 09:18 AM
(12-10-2024, 08:46 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In my opinion it's not only about TikTok brainrot destroying our attention span. It's also about time economics. People might be willing to watch a 90 minute video by an established channel they love. But when their free time is limited, this same 90 minutes may be a lot to ask for a small channel.
I also find that for myself, forcing a time limit helps me to tighten the narrative. This improved the flow, with the drawback of omitting a whole parade of caveats and additional details.
Have you ever thought to split the video in parts,ie. part 1/3, part 2/3 and part 3/3? That might help people to beat the time economics.
It is obviously not only Tiktok nurturing our attention span deficits- There are also so much interesting things to see and watch that one is forced to make choices and tradeoffs, put attention to everything and nothing. Sign of our times. Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Before Youtube introduced their Shorts my 11 old son watched the normal "long" 30-60 minutes videos of interest. Now he scrolls down the shorts list for a period and then from that he chooses a few "long" 15-30 minutes videos to watch of what is was the most interesting in the flow for a deeper dive on the selected subjects. Once he called the 15-30 minute videos short and 45-60 minutes long. Not anymore.
So mayble splitting in episodes could help to gain a wider audience, as long seems to be defined now around 10-12 minutes.
