Asklemmy

54483 readers

360 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

With people increasingly expecting constant stimulation, are we culturally heading toward a point where silence and pauses in all media become intolerable? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by xelar@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What does that mean for how we communicate and consume content? Do you expect continous word salads instead of interviews, comedy sketches etc. Would modern era people accept that?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

I have desired constant stimulation for my entire life and I get bored by a lot of media quickly. Media that has no silence or pauses is boring in its own way. Well timed, artful pauses and silence capture my attention and gets my mind racing as to what it could mean in the context of a well-told story. Creating engaging media is more than jingling keys.