The researchers caution against reading the deactivation as evidence of impaired cognitive function. As they put it in the paper, “this deactivation should not be interpreted as a failure of cognitive control capacity.” Instead, the team argues the pattern likely reflects an adaptive shift toward low-effort, automatic processing during passive, low-conflict viewing. They note that participants remained actively engaged throughout the task, skipping disliked clips on roughly 57 percent of trials, which the authors say points to sustained evaluation rather than disengagement or mind-wandering.
sure bud
saving this one to share when someone sends with me a 15 second vertical video lol, I’m not good at keeping friends
Why does Tik-tok do this and not TV?
Because TV is mostly boring shit like commercials and repeats. It lets your mind wander. TikTok feeds you content without distraction until eating laundry detergent seems like a great idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIUMkXxtHg
I remember watching a video about this topic (sources in the description). The tl;dw of it is:
The content isn’t the (main) problem. Its the format. The infinite scroll + short form content teaches you to be impatient. You could watch a montage of cat vids that cuts every 10 seconds and be fine. But have a tiktok style feed of the same content; having to swipe to see the next thing. You’ll preform worse in cognitive heavy tasks.
Obviously its more nuanced than just this but yea.
The way short-form videos are edited gives my brain so much anxiety, I can’t stand to look at them. The 1-3 word subtitles flashing constantly, the moving animated watermarks (sometimes multiple!), the whole verticality of it all… I can’t do it.
I honestly think speed has a lot to do with it. With the rapid switch and ability to just ping the next thing, it removes all reflection time.
Even flipping through channels required enough to evaluate what you were jumping into the middle of.
Algorithms make it so the videos are incentivize to onboard you as fast as possible and they start when you flip.
There’s this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10030518/
Pretty sure people who watch too much faux news also experience cognitive decline.
Do you guys think it’s inherently wrong to be stupid?
Honestly all the morons look so happy it pisses me off. That being said, there’s nothing more dangerous than an idiot as the world is now finding out.
It’s wrong to intentionally create stupid people with algorithms and addiction, yes.
I’m having a hard time figuring this one out, hold on.
Stupid people steal and are violent.
Those traits aren’t exclusive to stupid people.
By choice, yes.
The Coco Melon generation should be watching Tik Tok by now, so they probably never developed those regions.
So tiktok is the baby food of media?
No wonder they’re all programmable.