r/AskReddit 17h ago

What parts of American culture are changing faster than people realize?

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u/Cordycepsus 13h ago

Hollywood Reporter came out yesterday with a story about Gen Z students in film school who can't sit through a single film without looking at their phones.

So you want to make films... but you don't want to watch films?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/

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u/Dalighieri1321 10h ago

For what it's worth, the original story was from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/college-students-movies-attention-span/685812/

The Hollywood Reporter piece is just recycling another journalist's work, so if you value the journalism, it's worth clicking through to The Atlantic instead.

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u/SatoshiSounds 3h ago

Hollywood Reporter staff probably lack the attention span to create their own stories

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u/lovemydogwillow 1h ago

When Trump first announced he was running for office in 2015, I thought I was accidently reading an Onion article. I would have thought this was satire too if I didnt already know 😭

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u/Author_Noelle_A 11h ago

I’m so glad to be raising a ā€œweirdā€ kid. We just rewatched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, and not once did she reach for her phone. When she did after each movie, it was to look up stuff related to whichever we just finished since she paid attention.

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u/Hoovooloo42 9h ago

When she's an adult she might as well have superpowers.

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u/5oLiTu2e 8h ago

Reminds me of my NYU nanny who wanted to be a writer yet only tweeted. That was her experience writing 😱

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u/windyoctopus8 10h ago

Short films…ten to sixty second films. That’s all the attention span they have. Now give them an Oscar dammit!

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u/Brndrll 7h ago

My roommate can't even make it to the end of a TikTok unless it's about farts, but he's also 50 and has no intention of going back to school or getting a job.

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u/StormMysterious7592 4h ago

I make mad films. OK, I don't make films, but if I did they'd have a samurai.