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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think the key differences are quality and time spent.

    You stay up, watch a 15 minute (10 actually, ala US tv commercials) episode of ATHF and thats it. Maybe you watch Sealab:2021 afterwards too. At worst, youre extremely smoothbrained and watch Squidbillies too.

    Okay, so what is the total brain rot time? Like 30 minutes a night? 1 hour tops? Only on weeknights really? You couldn’t watch it all day. You could change the channel to something else, but it wasn’t “that”, all day.

    Whatever you change it to might not be “great” but it was still moderated FCC compliant content. Like, your channel scrolling isnt intermingled with a adult man telling children to be racist and abuse women. Not seamlessly anyways.

    Compare that the never ending, ever scrolling, available whenever brainrot that is TikTok/YoutubeShorts/etcetcetc. Its not even close. Kids are watching Minecraft videos and then listening to Asmongold atop of SubwaySurfers. Engaging with content and comments all day, everyday on demand.

    They are not forced to “change the channel” or go do something else. And what’s on “the channel” is (essentially) unmoderated content to children who dont know if something is real or the wider context.

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    I mean. Humans made ATHF, so it has SOME value. A lot of modern brain rot it totally generated.

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    2 days ago

    People used to complain that Teletubbies had nothing to offer a child’s development. Now in 2025 my nephew watches the same half hour cgi marble race on YouTube two or three times a day, every day

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      14 hours ago

      two or three times a day

      That’s rookie numbers. Videos for kids are known to gather bazillions of views, because toddlers in particular watch them hundreds of times on repeat.

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      14 hours ago

      Developed mentally, could this be related to wanting to read the same book over and over? Because that’s normal. But I don’t know how it changes with watching videos except intuitively it doesn’t seem as healthy.

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      2 days ago

      Well, making a whole ass real marble raceway is a lot of work and definitely not something that would survive a kid walking in.

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    At the top: state-owned propaganda network that intentionally pushes short, often harmful content to the west, while carefully curating educational videos for their home market. Full of zero budget zero quality dross.

    Bottom: scripted show that’s written by a team of comedians with several successful career voice actors, animators and musicians. Every second of every episode is planned and catefully executed.

    These are not remotely the same…

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      14 hours ago

      Thanks to OP for making the connection though. When I watched Adult Swim specifically Aqua Teen Hunger Force, I had no words to describe how strange and nonsensical but also weird and funny it was. But Brainrot in the modern sense describes it perfectly.