Incredible that the obvious big trend in media consumption is "viewers are willing to watch serialized stories that last for dozens of hours without interruption" and executives are still like "the addled, phone-addicted youth need quick bites for their short attention spans"

There's never been any scientific evidence for the contention that young people have lower attention spans for consuming media (and a lot to the contrary) but the idea persists anyway because negative stereotypes about your audience makes you sound savvy in hollywood boardrooms

Media has spent billions in youth-chasing investments in bite-sized internet content and Quibi is only the latest failure.

Meanwhile my 4 year old nephew will watch some random idiot play Minecraft for 6 hours in a row if you let him, which is even duller than watching golf

Similarly, the trend in commuting is people moving away from terrestrial radio's bite-sized chunks and to podcast content like "Bill Simmons talks about the movie MICHAEL CLAYTON for 4 hours" or "12-part investigative series about a murder case from 1983" https://twitter.com/kevinanderson26/status/1260227339235057664

I think it's really underappreciated how more *literate* in a practical sense the average person is than 20 years ago as a result of constantly reading and writing due to smartphones, compared to previous generations that mostly watched TV https://twitter.com/aardvarkwizard/status/1260228161725517825