This is not surprising, video gaming has been around since the 70s, the first gamers are hitting 70+.
I don’t use tiktok, but I was hanging out with brother and his gf and they showed me how they watch reels/tiktok. It was funny, I won’t lie, but man the format is slop.
Video games require you to listen to instructions, execute inputs, and follow tasks to completion to get a reward. Tiktok is basically swipe, watch for a few seconds, next hit; 85% of the clips will be shit but that 15% makes our monkey brain happy so we swipe again and suddenly an hour is gone and you’ve gained nothing but a shorter attention span.
I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.
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This is not surprising, video gaming has been around since the 70s, the first gamers are hitting 70+.
I don’t use tiktok, but I was hanging out with brother and his gf and they showed me how they watch reels/tiktok. It was funny, I won’t lie, but man the format is slop.
Video games require you to listen to instructions, execute inputs, and follow tasks to completion to get a reward. Tiktok is basically swipe, watch for a few seconds, next hit; 85% of the clips will be shit but that 15% makes our monkey brain happy so we swipe again and suddenly an hour is gone and you’ve gained nothing but a shorter attention span.
That 15% ends up on other social media sites anyway so…
I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.
Yes! Thank you for putting this into words, I had the same experience recently but couldn’t articulate what I was feeling…
Platformers, metroidvanias, soulslikes, puzzlers… some games are almost brutal in how they demand patience and focus!
Speaking as someone who grew up with video games and only reluctantly engages with social media, I think I understand how the previous generation felt