[abeisgreat]

I never understand why people consume content like this accelerated. For me, I feel like if I felt the need to rush through something then it’s not worth consuming at all.

[ranger207]

Personally it helps me understand it more because it requires more concentration. I've always needed to be doing something while listening or watching things, but the problem is that I can distract myself doing that and not actually pay attention to the actual thing at all. Turning the speed up forces me to concentrate more and it's harder to get distracted

[Hnrobert42]

This. I have ADHD. If I watch at normal speed, I get bored and my mind wanders.

[xzel]

For me it’s mostly how slow some people talk. This is especially true for some content when I can understand it at a higher speed, for example Dota replays. I feel like I’ll get more out of the time watching two in the same when I can understand 95% of the nuance. I also have ADHD so wanting it to be faster could easily be part of that.

[patcon]

Honestly, not everyone has the same mental clockspeed. I have friends who seem to quite literally think 7x faster than everyone else. But to be fair, they don't do as much side-band emotional processing and tangential thought as me. I process "off the beaten path" of the recorded narrative, so I like realtime speed, bc it lets me relate other thoughts to what I'm hearing. But that's just my slow relational mind :)

[14]

It’s all about time. I can consume, enjoy and take in content like this much faster than it is presented. Speeding it up let’s me enjoy more content

[cess11]

So you don't believe in scientists when they say that the conscious has a low, fairly constant bandwidth? Like what, 50 b/s?

[ddoolin]

Most of it is pretty long sequences of him cutting the same facets or polishing, so not really much to glean from many of those sequences.

[mozman]

TikTok and YT shorts condition us all to have shorter attention span

[kevin_thibedeau]

10 minutes watching YouTube is 10 minutes of your life you'll never get back. I 2x everything unless it needs to be experienced in realtime.

[xattt]

Boomers complained how Gen X rotted their brain by channel flipping.