For the uninitiated, here is a canon of the most important creators in the TV recap game today. Mike’s Mic has elevated the form to a new level (and yes, the genre has gone full circle and made its way over to TikTok, with creators like Rob Anderson’s painfully funny, hyper-shortform 7th Heaven recaps). People have more patience for longform storytelling than ever before - and they want even longer-form storytelling about the storytelling. Or it’s a good way to nostalgically revisit something from your past without actually ruining it by watching it with your adult critical eye … like Degrassi or Grey’s Anatomy. (Seriously, there are more hours of YouTube videos about The Idol than there are hours of The Idol.) The genre is a good way to catch up on something extremely long running, like Degrassi or Grey’s Anatomy. ![]() If you want to know what all the fuss is over a show like The Idol but you have too much dignity and self-respect to make it through The Idol, countless accounts will watch it for you, complete with commentary, Mystery Science Theater 3000–style. ![]() It’s now possible to be a fan of a show having only watched it refracted through some kid in a bedroom’s point of view. ![]() In videos that can stretch longer than a Scorcese double feature, content creators are engaging with their favorite (and least favorite) TV shows like they’re open FBI murder cases, breaking down their component parts and rearranging them to find patterns, memes, inside jokes, conspiracies, philosophical lessons, stannable moments of iconicity, and rant-fodder. That platforms for short-form content made it so we all became goldfish-brained, unable to sit through a full episode of a TV show without getting distracted by our second screens - just an entire human race reduced to a buncha marshmallow-test flunkies. There was a time not long ago when everyone was saying the Internet was shrinking our attention spans.
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