On the topic of brain rot, content creators with longer form videos often include a video playing in the background which has no relevancy to the narrated content.
The video itself isn’t necessarily brain rot content but rather a side effect of a majority of people’s short attention spans.
In some cases, the content can include relevant video content but split viewed with something irrelevant (ie, random subway surfers gameplay). It’s quite annoying and distracting for me.
A lot of those are actually spam accounts that repost popular content with an extra video in order to still have enough apparent originality to get paid.
The split view subway surfers thing is definitely brainrot content, it's often retelling a story from Reddit or Twitter but since a voice reading something out isn't stimulating enough (nor is reading it) they add visual distraction. A lot of non-brainrot content still has something in it though, jump cuts so you getSentences that kindaSound like this butWritten out toGet more words inLess time, camera changes, background music, graphics, etc.
There was an AI news/analysis channel that I had to unfollow because of this. The guy did a good job distilling down the news, but half of the length of each video would be random AI-adjacent videos (like footage of someone testing a drone or a self driving car) that had nothing to do with what he was talking about, and I found it difficult to focus when I couldn’t be sure if the stuff on screen was supposed to be relevant or not (he’d often cut to charts or samples of a video output).
Lately in slop-land I’ve also seen shorts where the creator will take an old boomer joke (one of those “and then the student stumped the teacher” kind of stories) and have an AI voice read it while the video is cuts from “satisfying animations”-genre videos.
The video itself isn’t necessarily brain rot content but rather a side effect of a majority of people’s short attention spans.
In some cases, the content can include relevant video content but split viewed with something irrelevant (ie, random subway surfers gameplay). It’s quite annoying and distracting for me.