[crowbahr]

Couldn't be further from my experience. I enjoy it, watch for a bit, or even for an hour+, and then put it down. No noticable impact to my ability to focus at all: 5 hours flies by while coding still.

Idk if I'm built different, but I generally doubt it. I find these statements about brain rot to be either hyperbolic or at very least reminiscent of the "violent video games make you kill people IRL" conversations of the 90s/00s

[mapotofu]

Anecdotes are anecdotes, but my experience mirrors the above poster except the timelines and platform. I feel like I got vortexed into YouTube shorts in a way that I haven’t ever felt anything close to except maybe the early days of stumbleupon. A very addictive rush hitting all the right synapses. I’d probably watch 2 or more hours a night and I doubt that’s even an honest account. Some furniture refinishing projects thankfully pulled me away long enough to break the cycle.

It was a very addictive sensation. I believe other accounts that mirror this and see them as non-hyperbolic having experienced it myself.

[danielvaughn]

I'm sure everyone is different. I believe alcohol is probably very addictive, but even though I've had periods of my life where I was drinking heavily (mostly in social situations), I've never once felt the sensation of "needing a drink". It's completely foreign to me. Maybe it's a genetic thing, no idea. I just know deep down that I'll never become an alcoholic. But that doesn't mean it doesn't affect other people very differently.

I remember the video game arguments of the 90s; Mortal Kombat never made me violent. I can see how it might seem like history repeating itself, but in this case I'm talking about my own experience.

[tylervigen]

Your experience is at odds with the statistical results of the linked studies covering nearly 100,000 participants.

[crowbahr]

The linked study r values are all minor to no effect. -0.37 as an r value is barely correlated. Talk to me when they're up above -.5

How much of it is just constantly being told that SFVs are bad for you?

The linked article is a meta analysis with basically 0 controls that finds a statistical correlation barely better than background noise. Yawn