>>713361534
I hate it, but you need to understand that they aren't going away because it is predatory by design and exploits flaws in human psychology.
>dopamine micro hits: each new word that appears on-screen provides a tiny reward. the brain gets a small hit of satisfaction which creates an addictive loop that is hard to break from.
>attention anchoring: the words appearing on screen one after the other attracts your attention and makes it harder for your eyes to wander like you might do when reading a full paragraph.
>urgency: rapid-fire text creates artificial time pressure. brain interprets the quick-paced information as "important" which triggers a DON'T MISS THIS response that keeps you watching.
>cognitive load reduction: shorter captions require less mental effort to process and makes it easier for retards to absorb the information
>sense of completion: by starting to view one of these short-captioned videos, your mind has "started" something which makes it very hard to break from it unless you see it all the way through to the end. This is basically an advanced form of news cliffhangers or coming up next sequences on traditional television.
There's more than just this but like almost everything else in 2021+4, this design is purely predatory and seeks not to improve content through legitimate means (higher quality, higher density, better researched content, more informative content, etc) but instead is tantamount to "psychological rent-seeking behavior" that takes existing content and artificially boosts its engagement potential beyond its natural limit.
The worst part of it is that even if you are 100% aware of all this shit and actively try to resist it, your brain is still susceptible to it no matter who you are or how above its influence you think you are. It is literally engineered to work on everyone, smart or dumb.
