Rant: I used to watch anime one episode a week like it was 2004, now I finish 12 episodes in one night and remember none of it | Anime Discussions - Free To Speak
Binge watching is just the food version of eating a whole cake in one sitting instead of a slice a night. You get the sugar rush but none of the taste, and a week later you can't even tell someone what flavor it was. Back in the day a single episode sat with you for seven whole days, you'd talk about it at school, maybe draw the character in your notebook, let it soak in. Now the whole season is gone by 3am and my brain treats it like background noise while I scroll my phone with the other hand. Same thing happens with music too, I skip through an album in ten minutes and couldn't hum a single song after. We just keep shoving stuff in faster than we can actually keep any of it.