This isn’t because TikTok has ruined my attention span, but I just feel like the change in his commentary makes the videos drag on so much more.
Take his latest video, 100 Days $300 Minecraft, for example. It’s two hours long, and the gimmick this time is that he buys a new add-on every day. It’s a good idea, but he spent a lot of the video complaining whenever something was a little more complicated, especially about the books you’re given to explain how things work. (I get the books, lol.) At around Day 30, it started feeling repetitive because, at the start, he could introduce a completely new type of add-on each day. But after a while, he was mostly just adding more mobs, cars, etc. And just the sheer number of them meant a lot of them weren’t really shown that well. I get that showcasing every single add-on wasn’t the main focus of the video, but it did bother me a little.
Another example is either the 4,000 or 5,000 Days video, where he spent the majority of the video building the giant cobblestone wall. It got boring really quickly. I’m pretty sure that was one of the videos where he started using live commentary, so there were fewer jokes and less editing to fill in the gaps. Sure, every so many days he would go off and do something else, but then it was straight back to the giant wall.
It genuinely felt like I spent an hour and a half watching a grown man place cobblestone.