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Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE · BRAIN ROT: The Science of Mindlessly Scrolling · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

So your body might be resting, but it's actually like your mind is being stimulated.

So then when you're done that, you don't have the same capacity to go and sit down and work

consistently or read a book because your brain's like i'm tired which is like really interesting to think about when you are swiping on sorry i just kicked the machine are we okay sorry

I mean, it's no coincidence that that's basically what slot machines do as well, right?

It's like you have this...

former google employees have come out and been like they were literally doing this on purpose they were modeling a lot of these things after like addictive behaviors knowing that like there's something very rewarding about like for the brain as we're saying like dopamine's releasing same with when you pull a trigger on a slot machine you get a kick dopamine in that anticipation and that can form habits and have you there longer and

And for a lot of people too, it's like, then you end up staying much longer than you meant to because it's impacting you in that moment.

So a lot of times this happens to me where I'm like, okay, I just want to sit down for five minutes.

Yeah.

I mean, I, it's interesting.

Like this affects both.

kids and adults and obviously like the kid part of this is scarier i'm working on a video and it's by the time it'll probably come out in the next couple weeks um it's like the difference for people like us and older for swiping for not just for swiping but for um attention span for memory inhibition like all these things that are being impacted like the cognitive

what would you say impairment that like social media can cause us does still happen to old people.

But the difference is like, we, our brains didn't develop with this.

This is like, what is the scary part for younger people is like, we grew up.

with the ability or the, we have to literally sit down and read.

We didn't have a slot machine all day.

Yeah.

And so we developed the ability to maintain attention and do like deep, logical, sequential thinking and problem solving.

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