I feel if one gets accustomed to this level of stimulation the digital crack of yesteryears like an Instagram post with only pictures will feel less interesting.

I do think there’s something to the idea of constant novel stimulation messing with people, in a way similar to how drugs can work (but without the physical dependency).

There’s a whole website, in fact, called “yourbrainonporn” that semi-scientifically is about this kind of thing as it relates to high speed internet and porn (I have not kept up with it, so I don’t know what it’s like now). As I remember, some of it was anecdote, some of it referencing scientific concepts, so I’d take it with a grain of salt. But point is, it was touching on the nature of high speed endless novelty. The whole thing of being able to go “next” when the current thing is not exactly stimulating in exactly the way you want and immediately get a next thing that might be just a little bit closer… it’s sus as brain health goes, I’ll put it that way, considering how similar it seems to be to chasing a high. Though in this regard, it may be that short form video is an intensified version of what was already being observed with high speed internet more generally.