Games aren't the next TikTok: compressing playtime yields less, not faster
TAbrodi · x · 2026-11-14
@jsnnsa argues the "AI games will do to gaming what TikTok did to video" analogy is wrong. TikTok worked because the value of video survives compression — a 15-second clip can hit as hard as a 30-minute show. Games are different: their value comes from time invested — getting skilled, building things, friends being there. Make games disposable and you don't get the same experience faster, you just get less.
The closer analogy is YouTube's effect on TV and film: it changed who gets to make things, not how long they are. And even that only goes so far, since playing a game is fundamentally different from watching a video.
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