While rewatching Cutie Honey in Giko yesterday, it made me reflect on a certain sentiment that you always seem to hear, how "ADHD" content is nowadays. Which I've always assume means filled with constant stimulation and energy. But when you take a look at

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Anonymous 01/01/25 (Wed) 21:25:41 No.136309

While rewatching Cutie Honey in Giko yesterday, it made me reflect on a certain sentiment that you always seem to hear, how "ADHD" content is nowadays. Which I've always assume means filled with constant stimulation and energy. But when you take a look at the media/anime being put out now, and even really with all the supposed 'kohai' tiktok stuff that's just someone talking plastered with games, a background essay meant to be ignored. There's not any energy in those at all. It's a farce with pretty colors.

Even on a broader level there's really nothing energizing about anything in media, not only supposed 'brainrot' garbage. It's all extremely tame and boring compared to any anime that put even a teensy amount of heart into making something bombastic. The realization sorta hit me while watching Onimai back when it came out, but really came into its own watching the two back to back last night. Onimai is good, don't get me wrong, but the energy it presents is several levels below that of something like Galaxy Angel or even Milky Holmes. Although I guess with that they're different genres in a way since SoL is generally more relaxed, but there's just no modern replacement for anything of that style nowadays and it's annoying the supposed replacement is magnitudes less exciting than its predecessor. This goes doubly so for any isekai which feel similar to the aforementioned 'brainrot' content in that a vast majority is meant to glaze by your eyes and pass the time rather than hook you into its fantasy world.

I just want to feel hyper and attracted to the screen like a magnet, I don't want to be bored. And today's media just seems to command my non-attention.

Anonymous 01/01/25 (Wed) 22:27:12 No.136310

Not an expert on this stuff by any means, but isn't the whole point of today's "overstimulation" content to focus on quantity over quality/intensity? That stuff with a bunch of different unrelated videos playing at the same time? Its very premise is that none of them are actually interesting enough to hold the viewer's interest; that's why you need multiple.

Anyway, closest thing to Galaxy Angel etc. that I know of in recent years is probably Mewkledreamy. I guess it makes sense considering it shares its director with Cromartie and Di Gi Charat.

Anonymous 01/01/25 (Wed) 22:29:34 No.136311

>>136310
>shares its director with Cromartie and Di Gi Charat
Oh yeah, and Machikado Mazoku too, which is a great show but imo doesn't really have the same manic energy.

Anonymous 01/02/25 (Thu) 06:19:33 No.136380

Something that it seems Netflix has been doing on purpose is, according to them, diversifying from only content you would watch actively to also things they design for people to leave running in the background in a second screen:
>A major focus is a more strategic approach to the “second screen,” or the phone that viewers often hold in their hand while watching TV. The Netflix mobile app has traditionally been a way to watch Netflix on mobile, no different than the TV app. But Kim sees the mobile app moving forward as a “Swiss army knife” to grab users’ attention in different ways.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/19/netflix-chief-product-officer-eunice-kim-second-screen-phone/ | https://archive.is/813TT
>I’ve heard from showrunners who are given notes from the streamers that “This isn’t second screen enough.” Meaning, the viewer’s primary screen is their phone and the laptop and they don’t want anything on your show to distract them from their primary screen because if they get distracted, they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off. I heard somebody use this term before: they want a “visual muzak.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tvs-top-5-podcast-justine-bateman-ai-dangers-hollywood-1235540858/
Here we're not talking about dumb internet videos, but full-on TV shows and movies, yet somehow following the same logic of fighting over the scraps of your attention. As >>136310 said, it's more about quantity over quality.

What I personally think makes the biggest difference is that the ones throwing several videos together to the point of unintelligibility are doing so as a form of absurdist self-parody, like the counter-reaction that made skibidi and sigma into nonsense words as a joke, or the template reaction overload of so-called 21st century humor. People taking about sigma males and skibidi toilet exist without any irony to it, just like how my cousin yesterday showed me a snippet of a podcast with a genuine Family Guy clip below it, but that regular "sludge" isn't anywhere close to a fast-paced show. Take it away, Scientific American:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2LsSjZih0

Anonymous 01/02/25 (Thu) 06:54:46 No.136381

>>136380
>sigma
This is especially painful in my engineering degree. Lean Six Sigma, an important quality control tool, is now made of two funny internet words.

Anonymous 01/02/25 (Thu) 19:21:50 No.136388

>>136380
>they might look up, be confused, and go turn it off.
This is weird, I thought the idea of having something in the background was to have stuff pop often enough to keep people watching without requiring much real context so they can go back to browsing Facebook or something. That's not anything new even, lots of news shows and TV sitcoms and the like were not exactly made to need all your attention. I know my family leave stuff like that on all the time but only really pay attention for brief periods between conversing. Sports are another good example of this (it's why handegg gets away with so many commercials).

TV shows do need to do something to compete with the endless wave of free content that exists to get a click and then be added to your recommendations algorithm to show you more baity titles to click on. I would prefer they focus on quality and rewatchability, earning the full attention of viewers, but I guess going the route of something lengthier that you can just leave running instead of constant interaction dings may work in a world where people have more screens than they know what to do with.

Anonymous 01/04/25 (Sat) 02:59:37 No.136428

my older sister says she likes having tv on in the house when she's home alone because she just wants to hear the sound of people talking
maybe this is the descendant of that sort of desire

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