And it's the exact opposite with YouTube.
Wanna watch a 30-second video? Absolutely not.
Wanna watch a 5-hour documentary about a topic you've never heard of? Of course.
53Hours are just shorter on YouTube than they are in movies/streaming services.
(It just occurred to me I have effectively watched tons of documentaries.. they just were on YouTube and not called documentaries lmao. Weird how brains think of these so differently, at least for me)
13Especially if you watch at higher playback speed. I get impatient watching regular shows when I can't go 2x.
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20 minutes is like the minimum length requirement. Below that is basically TikTok territory.
11People generally watch YouTube videos more casually, including with more pausing and often while doing something else. It takes less energy to watch a long YouTube video than a movie, whereas with short videos you can't just sit back and relax and let it play, you have to bring up something new almost immediately if you wanna keep watching stuff so your attention has to be more focused.
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When binging a series, don't try to stop at the end of episode. It usually has enough cliffhanger to compels us to watch next episode. Just stop on scene changes, like when there's a fade to black and the location changes
37This is honestly a good idea
13This is exactly what I did when I recently watched The Fall of the House of Usher. After the first episode, I knew each ending was going to make me want to keep going. So i would switch it off when it would change scenes and come back to it later. Made me feel less like, "omg, I really need to see what's going to go on next." And made me realize I should do it more often.
8Where were you three days ago when I started under the dome and haven’t slept since?
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Gotta have them built in bathroom/snack breaks.
25You don't want to be locked in, but drawn in by each new bit.
19Wait, you can handle 10 hours of shows? I'm lucky to get through 3 episodes of my favorite cartoons before stopping.
8Admitting weakness is the first step in making a change. Keep trying brother.
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That was the point of intermissions back in the day. We just need periodic breaks to process what's happening and keep the stream of information in digestible chunks.
8In my case, it's "watch 4 episodes, go do something else, say you'll watch the rest later and then never watch the rest."
7I can stop whenever I want to
4Am I out of the loop 1 hour episode init that just a frickin feature length movie
2Where are these 10 hour movies on netflix for that shitty joke to work?
-30I thought it was funny.
15Well a while ago a British producer made a 10 hour movie of paint drying in a wall.
Of course this was out of spite, based on the expression "I would rather watch paint dry", to protest the cost of rating a movie in UK.
Also it's a joke not a dick don't take it so hard.
15They decided not to do them because they asked this guy about it and they went with his preference for the broken up versions.
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