[faeriechangling]

If we're going off anecdotes, we've also seen an explosion in popularity of the 2-3 hour podcast and season long Netflix binges.

Doesn't this generation have an absurdly long attention span compared to the generation of the 30 minute TV show with three 2-3 minute commercial breaks?

[asdff]

There's things that are different though. People listening podcasts are sometimes multitasking so that's divided focus right there. In terms of modern TV and movies, shots are actually shorter these days. To its worst extent you can end up with these sorts of scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4UZ-79MK4