I feel like a terminally online goon for it, but I generally watch shows on 1.5~2x speed. Random youtube crap is even worse at 2.5 or 3x. If I really, really like a show I’ll watch at 1.2 or 1.3x.
There’s just so much content out there and I want to see so much stuff
I find that approach really diminishes some of the great scenes that rely on pauses and pace for dramatic effect. I agree that some Star Trek stuff is rather slow (and it feels even slower when you hit one of the worse episodes) but defaulting to accelerating content just doesn’t feel right.
Lots of YouTube is intentionally lengthened for view time/metrics balance to entice the algorithm. Spiffing Brit does this very well by padding his videos with nonsense for the first five or ten minutes, however much time he needs to pad the meat and potatoes, and his viewership metrics show it works. For that reason I do find myself speeding up YouTube, though having SponsorBlock on also helps a lot.
same. And it helps with listening to music on youtube… haha! Once I had friends coming over home and forgot to switch speed back to 1x, we had it like for an hour in 1.15 (yeah, wasn’t that bad really… that was part of the problem :P)
I feel like a terminally online goon for it, but I generally watch shows on 1.5~2x speed. Random youtube crap is even worse at 2.5 or 3x. If I really, really like a show I’ll watch at 1.2 or 1.3x.
There’s just so much content out there and I want to see so much stuff
I find that approach really diminishes some of the great scenes that rely on pauses and pace for dramatic effect. I agree that some Star Trek stuff is rather slow (and it feels even slower when you hit one of the worse episodes) but defaulting to accelerating content just doesn’t feel right.
Lots of YouTube is intentionally lengthened for view time/metrics balance to entice the algorithm. Spiffing Brit does this very well by padding his videos with nonsense for the first five or ten minutes, however much time he needs to pad the meat and potatoes, and his viewership metrics show it works. For that reason I do find myself speeding up YouTube, though having SponsorBlock on also helps a lot.
i used to do this with youtube and i switched to using ai browser plugins to summarize youtube content for me.
same. And it helps with listening to music on youtube… haha! Once I had friends coming over home and forgot to switch speed back to 1x, we had it like for an hour in 1.15 (yeah, wasn’t that bad really… that was part of the problem :P)
i feel like it’s perfectly intelligible if it’s below 1.5x speed and i stopped noticing it too. lol