Did Streaming Steal Our Lives?

Entertainment is everywhere now. Streaming services, endless shows, movies, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, podcasts, trailers, clips, reactions, reviews, and doomscrolling feeds are all fighting for the same tiny piece of our lives: attention. But what happens when there is so much to watch that watching stops feeling fun and starts feeling like homework?

In this episode of Egotastic FunTime: ReLoaded, we talk about entertainment overload, doomscrolling, streaming fatigue, binge watching, paid subscriptions with ads, the death of shared cultural moments, and why movies and TV have a harder time bringing people together in a world where everyone is watching something different.

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Want to take your attention back? Check out Digital Minimalism https://amzn.to/4uPVNRU

Maybe the problem is not that stories got worse. Maybe the problem is that modern entertainment trained us to never stop consuming long enough to actually live.

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