YouTube-ized Attention Span

Haven’t watched Zo in a while. On this one, I got only as far as the toilet shot, and quit.

Don’t know why, I used to watch them all, but he has kind-of… whatever is the opposite of “grown on me.” It’s not his message. Maybe it’s his delivery. Maybe it’s like the Trifecta guys, who just seem to run long. Sometimes you’ve got 1m 20sec of message, but you have to pad it out every time to 6 min. Why? It’s not like a network time slot.

I don’t think it’s that my attention span has been YouTube-ized (or Vine-ized, even worse). I don’t mind “wasting my time” with something entertaining as well as informative. (BTW, liked the Penn & Teller clip!!) But, for example, on the radio news coming in today, they spent maybe five times as much airtime telling us about a big breaking news story coming up and how they talked to the police and how they were on top of the story, before we finally found out some guy was standing on an overpass and the highway was shut down. “You just sorta wasted my precious time.”

And since I’m ranting, how about when I’m out on the weird Knockturn Alley fringes of YouTube, with the UFOs and the invaders from other dimensions, occasionally there’s some weird thing I think, that looks intriguing… and it’s an hour! It takes a whole hour to say, hey we found this strange buried thing that looks like this? Okay, that was tangential.

But, there’s just so much to see and hear and read. I hope someone who needs it just adores Zo and hangs on his every video. Lots of people could use a dose of Zo.

But if I’m going to listen to some guy talking today, I might just prefer fifteen minutes with Ronald Reagan’s Normandy Speech, 6/6/84, know what I mean? (h/t IOwnTheWorld via kilo6 on Ace)