The lack of depth make me severely understimulated.

100%. My nephew (also ND) sends me YT shorts all the time and I can feel the brain cells dying each time a spoken word gets highlighted or the place where the spoken words are written get rearranged or the background doesn’t match the content (it’s almost always Minecraft). Reading someone else’s tumblr posts out loud. Reciting animal factoids. Feeding comment sections into AI music generators. It’s endless tripe.

They’re not designed to be entertaining, they’re designed to fire as many neurons as possible in an attempt to get you to keep scrolling and fire more neurons etc. In other words, addiction bait.

I am with you on this. My problem is that the regular videos on, say, YouTube are too long. They take forever to get any point across, aside from disclaimers, ads, sponsored segment, etc.

I wish there were a happy medium. The five minute video that talks about something with enough depth that you feel like you have been informed but need to dive in deeper if you want the full picture. (Instead of the 30 second video that throws around flashy animations in an attempt to wow you, or the 30 minute video that could have said everything in 5 minutes.)

Weirdly I like listening to them in the car. Set it up, don’t have to look, just swipe and listen and focus on the road, no worse than changing the radio dial. Most of what I “watch” is things that don’t have important visual content (neurodiversity and tech stuff usually).

Watching them is not as great.