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“I don’t watch The Office because it’s the funniest show ever made,” admits marketing manager Jenna K., 31. “I watch it because I can scroll on my phone, look up for three seconds, laugh, and look back down. I don’t have the bandwidth to learn the lore of a new fantasy world.” Of course, you can’t scroll for five minutes without tripping over the second pillar of modern entertainment: The Discourse. By Alex M

For the next twenty-three minutes, you will scroll past forty-seven titles. You will read three summaries for documentaries about squid. You will almost press play on a 2013 indie drama, only to recoil when you see the runtime is 2 hours and 11 minutes. Eventually, exhausted, you return to The Office for the nineteenth time. Because we trust it less, we scroll more

Yet, according to a 2024 study by Nielsen, the average viewer now spends 21% of their allotted "watch time" simply deciding what to watch.

Then, the paralysis hits.