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Re:Why Content Is King by blfr on Saturday December 19, 2020 @08:26AM (#25477262)
The new way of interacting with videos and other media online does warrant a different term. Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV, reading versus paging through the newspaper, etc.

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Re:Why Content Is King by Veen on Saturday December 19, 2020 @08:45AM (#25477348)
If people called that specific phenomenon "consumption", it wouldn't bother me. But they use it much more broadly.
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Re:Why Content Is King by username90 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:28PM (#25480351)
> Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

How is that different from plopping down the sofa, turn on the TV and watch the endless stream of content being broadcast to you? This isn't really a new thing, most people consumed TV that way before digital consumption became a thing.

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Re:Why Content Is King by enriquto on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:34AM (#25477623)
> It's just like watching a movie vs watching TV

yet here you use the same word without problem, don't you?

I guess an appropriate word for "casually reading" would be "browsing" ?

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