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rbmadd:

i don’t mean to sound fake deep but the reason 2018 felt so long was because we’re being fed what’s trending at such a rapid rate that we literally can’t remember half of the shit that even happened anymore. “Black Panther came out in February!” Marvel releases so many movies a year that we completely forget about the last movie as soon as a new one comes out and it repeats in a vicious cycle. “Tide Pods/Ugandan Knuckles was in January!” The life span of memes have been rapidly declining for years and it’s gotten to the point where the average lifespan of a meme is about 2 weeks and then the next thing gets popular and then that lasts for 2 weeks and it just keeps going. We’re literally losing our sense of time because of our rapid consumption of media and pop culture.

You do have a point but there’s more to that.

This year has been nuts in terms of our ability to gauge time because of the *insane amount of events* that have happened since the year started. Natural disasters, activist movements, deaths, elections, political scandals, all the crazy shit that happened all over the world which also helped 2016 feel longer than it was, too.

This is something cinematographers have to learn when telling stories in short amounts of time. If you throw too many plots or elements into a story, not only will it feel cluttered, but it will feel *longer*, too. When your options basically become survive the year or don’t, the act of getting through the year becomes gruelling and slow. Now that we’re in the home-stretch, people have remarked that things are starting to feel faster.

You ARE right that the way we consume media is changing in a way that may prove unstable or even harmful, but what we’re experiencing right now is a universal, human phenomenon that’s only being exacerbated by the amount of news technology is allowing us to consume as time goes on. The more monumental events we end up being exposed to within a given year, the longer a year feels.