Watching Anime on 3.5x Speed is What New Anime Fans Do Now

I think I now understand what brainrot truly is now after watching that two minute clip explaining you should speedrun anime at 3.5x speed. If you need to be productive watching entertainment. Then you missed the point already.
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[@daniaalkhan4702]

*Watch anime is 3.5x speed* "Man this anime makes no sense."

[@bryangarcia5207]

There was an anime review channel that saw S2 of re Zero at 3 or 2 times speed and then said the season sucked and made no sense with a smug look on their faces. Absolutely wild, especially since the viewers were in complete agreement with them and defending watching it at that speed

[@AlsandoGames]

"Meh story is so rushed and characters get not enough build up..."

[@inendlesspain4724]

@@bryangarcia5207 I can imagine that being the tiktok crowd, worst takes you can imagine with zero self-awareness whatsoever.

[@albertoandrade9807]

This is more common than you would think

[@daniaalkhan4702]

@bryangarcia5207 bruh, how are you gonna document the fact you speedrun a story and then proudly shit on it 🤣🤣🤣

[@RefreshingMirage]

At that point just don’t even watch the fucking anime

[@RoflCannon6]

Fr just read the wiki page

[@pepethegenderequalityfrog9536]

​@@RoflCannon6idk if they even able to do it without Subway Surfers popup at the bottom of the screen

[@JayceCH.]

coughcoughGiggukcoughcough

[@justyouraverageweebwhocana2924]

so that explains why a majority of fans don't understand their own series.

[@mrpyrostorm3165]

It explains soooo much

[@ronel7836]

It's not because of that, but it's a funny thought, I guess

[@kamikaze5528]

Well, I've heard enough times that Kingdom Hearts doesn't make any sense, then I went to talk with people and colour me shocked, they skip the cutscenes and dialogue boxes...

[@superdubesgaming]

​@@kamikaze5528Kingdom Hearts 3 made little sense to me because I didn't have a handheld system to play all the side games. I got the games on Steam now. So hopefully I can fill in those blank spots.

[@bonixohd3424]

*Looking at you, Dragonball fans*

[@justsomeguywithamustache2901]

The dudes next comment would be, "I read manga, by skipping 5-10 pages" 😂😂

[@Kage-jk4pj]

Me watching this vid at 2x speed 😅

[@KingofCrimsonKings]

Nah, it's more like only reading and ignoring art.

[@Ryuu44]

The most productive way to read a manga is to extract only the text and read all of it. Who has time to gawk at a bunch of drawings?

[@Ghost_of_the_Cursed_Night]

That ending was cursed. I don't want to hear it ever again lol

[@fatrown3]

Tai Lopez would read the first and last panel of every chapter and post that he read the entirety of attack on titan in a day

[@chainsawkas7545]

Calling that a fan is an overstatement, and looks like a tourist

[@jashirei7581]

Calling that a tourist is an overstatement. That's someone who gets enough from reading a brochure

[@shawnbuffalo7154]

​@@jashirei7581nah, its the kind of guy who thinks he knows a lot by being racist as balls

[@ridicoluslevel]

"I need everything in my life to be productive" Bro, then why are you even watching anything? Why are you eating? That's not productive. Sleeping isn't "productive" either. If you think watching entertainment that's not 10 seconds long is "a waste of time" then why the fuck bother? Just make your life style - Work, eat, sleep, repeat

[@inendlesspain4724]

As soon as he said "I need everything in my life to be productive", I immediately thought "what a f'ing idiot". I'm pretty sure that'd be most people's reaction to this guy.

[@Darwin-sama]

If you don’t eat ot sleep you’ll die, everything else though doesn’t really matter

[@MiguelLopez-bd6kr]

When he said anime was a waste of time I couldn't take this guy seriously. Tell me you're a tourist without telling me you're a tourist

[@1снегопадами]

theyre called casual you ***

[@Monika-di7vv]

I'd like to see his reaction to the Monogatari Series 😂😂😂

[@LilPale]

@@1снегопадами "casual" implied all those casuals watch them similarly like him, even though there are those that watch it in their free time, *casually* watching it when you can.

[@Gabeoverthinks]

@@Monika-di7vvif he watches that at 3.5x he will be the worlds fastest reader

[@JayceCH.]

@@1снегопадами People who casually watch movies...dont watch it at 1.50x bro.

[@AtelierOfWeebs]

Anyone who does that, I wouldn't consider them a fan of anything

[@johnnymcgregor101]

Aman to that

[@appz3]

read a book, go fishing, turn your phone off, and learn to enjoy the moment.

[@CamPaFai]

If you MUST watch anime at a higher speed, you're the one with the problem. Not anime.

[@Finnthejelly]

Come on bro who doesn't want to speed up and make their downtime stressful?

[@fvnoah]

I tried to do that once. Even at 1.25 I feel like I’m doing something illegal

[@Lilo_D._Boom]

@@fvnoah I love 1.25x speed for certain shows, but only for shows that feel really slow or there is a slog in the middle (Clannad and Bleach are shows I think of where I watched some parts at 1.25). Anything above that however just feels terrible.

[@anonisnoone6125]

No if the anime is shit or just too slow, then I speed it up. I did this with certain eps in Bleach. They were soo slow.

[@GiRR007]

This is proven wrong by the fact one piece exist.

[@spellbot747]

Not just anime, they do this to everything nowadays. "Patience" is a dead, forgotten concept.

[@ronel7836]

It's not a forgotten concept. This guy's is just a rare breed

[@alien_824]

@@ronel7836over 8k likes 💀

[@spellbot747]

@@ronel7836 nah. there's a lot of them. and they're gonna grow.

[@JohnathanFallSeasonGuy]

Patience and Nuance are dying concepts… :(

[@Lunapink93]

It’s really not.

[@DevSeeMorth]

Anime going mainstream was the worst thing that it could've happened ever. It keeps getting worse each passing day...

[@johnnymcgregor101]

Literally my thoughts bro I wish anime stayed a hobby 😊

[@benp.865]

thats such a dumb take lol

[@DevSeeMorth]

@@benp.865 explain why

[@DevSeeMorth]

@benp.865 if is a dumb take then why everything is going downhill, I'm not toxic or anything ,I'm just genuinely curious to hear ur opinion

[@benp.865]

@@DevSeeMorth because something being popular or if dumb people are watching the same thing you, are the most irrelevant thing imaginable when it comes to me enjoying said thing. It changes absolutely nothing, unless anime studios start releasing anime at 3,5x speed to please these dumbasses. What exactly is going down hill? Its just the same thing but different people are also watching it now

[@Faymee]

that's just straight up killing the mastery of pacing and I'm depressed now

[@porky1118]

At least when the pacing is good to begin with.

[@hangry3102]

"Everything in my life needs to be productive" Then why are you watching anime?? anime is the OPPOSITE of productiveness, it's entertainment!

[@thelegendaryklobb2879]

And he's not even being entertained during that time he "lost" instead of doing something productive. He gets absolutely nothing from that time

[@mrpyrostorm3165]

The brain rot is real. These people are lost. It is actually sad to see.

[@Codemantic]

At that point you're not enjoying it. At that point you're not absorbing it. You were doing it because you want to get through it. By the end of it if you ask him anything about what he watched he would not be able to tell you.

[@remforrest]

Dang attention spans of people are gone.

[@Jirachi_OFFICIAL]

While when you're watching naruto you don't want to spend 10 mins listening to I want to get stronger repeatedly

[@DeathWing572]

It's equivalent to skipping

[@tonydak8573]

Bro, One Piece….

[@Jirachi_OFFICIAL]

@@DeathWing572 if you read fast its not skipping at all

[@remforrest]

@@Jirachi_OFFICIAL weird that you say that bc I finally watched Naruto and Shippuden bc my son said it was good. He is almost 15 and the only parts I skipped were the filler. I like listening to OP and ED of anime but I don't have attention problems.

[@diablo4838]

What the f-? Why does certain people believe that everything is for them, when in reality, not EVERYTHING is for them.

[@elimDBZ]

It could be part of a hive mind thing where if you're not part of a group it's abnormal. Think of the Borg in star trek next generation I suppose.

[@fatrown3]

There is something for him and it's especially for him. It's called Microsoft excel. I think he'd have a blast being fast and productive on it. He might even 100% complete it in a week

[@elemomnialpha]

It's called being a narcissist

[@hagelmannen]

wtf are we talking about? If speeding it up allows it to be for him, then who are you guys to gatekeep the medium? How trashy.

[@fatrown3]

@@hagelmannen gatekeeping is good. Also, the point is that if you have to watch something at 4x, just do something else. It's not like he has to watch it for work, but he's treating it like work. It is OKAY to judge people

[@sub_--_-.-___...__-_-_zero]

So basically he's missing the entire story and just wants to watch the cool fights. You do know that some major fights have a more meaningful impact after you learn why those fights happened in the first place.

[@HeruWilliams]

EXACTLY

[@briannguyen6248]

Imagine thinking these people care about “meaning.” /s Gosh this irks me to no end. I never watch anime on 2x speed, never 3. Absolutely no point in watching then because I won’t retain anything about the story.

[@forcexjr1566]

They are better off just watching WWE

[@mielkavra]

Same with me, I agree with the guy who does this but only for 1980-2000s anime. Older anime, I don't do this shit. I started in 2016 when I was 9 and I quit in 2022. Gaming was better.

[@Inconstructionmaybe-x5v]

​@@mielkavraK?......?.

[@Aeris_Asano]

The entire point of watching a show is to enjoy the whole thing. This guy should just read a summary 😂

[@MarvyG23]

He will probably 3x speed the manga too😂

[@NexenTriz]

Let's say you want to watch Domestic Girlfriend. Would you watch that in normal speed?

[@elimDBZ]

I understand the feeling of having to speed run stuff. Especially since I'm reading the Bobobo manga. Apparently its taken me 2 months to read the manga and I'm 15 chapters away from completing the manga. And it's been a journey while I would have loved to spend run the manga it just wasn't possible.

[@elimDBZ]

​@@NexenTrizwould you even want to watch it period?

[@TheHandHistoryVault]

​@@elimDBZThe manga was good though...

[@FinalQueue007]

People like that would be the same people saying, "I don't understand the plot"

[@alpha-sama]

People who call themselves anime fans while watching everything at 3.5x speed are no better than the losers who think they know everything about an anime when they've only watched KZbin shorts about it

[@inendlesspain4724]

There's a similar problem with comic books "fans". I'm tired of people getting their Batman lore from memes rather than official material; they've turned him into an irredeemable bastard in their minds.

[@Ryusei314]

Watching yt shorts and think you know everything about anime is honestly fucking funny ain't no way😂😂😂😂

[@yotheyfighting922]

💀💀

[@Misclickt]

There used to be websites where you can watch anime at 4x and 8x speed.

[@TheAthens619]

The next thing he's going to do is speedwalk life. Him: Life seems to be going on too long as the days do. So I'm going to speedwalk life This is a gun--

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

bang bang bang And more, on this episode of In the anime-field

[@hitmanstallion2697]

"here's your rope, don't hang yourself with it"

[@Dyues]

The problem with Abi is that he is obsessed with the idea of productivity itself. He wants to optimize everything without even knowing why he does it and whether he should. What he gets wrong about dopamine hits/skipping to interesting stuff is that, the closer each dopamine hits are from each other, the more desensitized he will become. He makes a fundamental mistake about the nature of dopamine. So he will neither enjoy the journey and its destination. That is the sad reality of this. Entertainment and media is not something to optimize but something we should take our time to enjoy. Paradoxically fast fowarding to interesting stuff makes things less interesting.

[@TheTrueMorse64]

This dude is the type of person who would only read the first and last sentence of a book!

[@Jonathan_Collins]

Experiencing anime in real time is part of the fun! Its really sad that it has gotten to this point.

[@TheFLAMEXD]

Not just anime, but TV and movies in general.

[@anonisnoone6125]

Ur acting like this is something new. It's always been a thing. Some people just like to watch them at faster speeds.

[@cobain2261]

​@anonisnoone6125 it doesn't even count as watching it, and no it hasn't always been a thing.

[@plasticenemy]

@@anonisnoone6125 That doesn't make it any less stupid.

[@harryritz4758]

How does this man even register what they're saying when he listens to audiobooks at 3.5 speed?

[@abhijitleihaorambam3763]

Yeah like he didn't learn anything from the audio books words will just fly by the head, and reading is the best way to learn.

[@sagejay9816]

fax like I doubt you were paying attention to anything they were saying at 3.5 speed

[@bencegergohocz5988]

I tend to speed up livestream vods and basicly 1.25 is fine, 1.75 is fine as long as you only pay attention to what they say 100% of the time and anything starting from 2 is just impossible to comprehend. Let's not even mention reading subtitles, you can't even understand speach at 3.5x even if it's correctly processed and the worlds aren't just high piched noises (which they were with that shit extention)...

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Thanks for the ableist remark but that's literally what blind people do. You're jsut supremacist for your own perceptions on how life works. People are always making the bigoted takes about things, like simple adjustment is some savantism and "I could never do it". Because you GIVE UP when you have the easy way out of your existing senses. You make the point that there can't be anything in common with you and a person who is differently specialized, and the seeing are not allowed to acquire any skills of the blind. And yeah, that's specifically ableism. You make the LIMITATION the entire point of it and nothing but an excuse "they're so pitiful because they odn't ahve the ability". Even now you're apping about "attention span" to vilify them not having that ABILITY: ableism. It's the same kind of thing as some black man happening upon Egypt, getting enslaved there and then they say "because of your skin color that's a bit darker". The slavery is the crime, but the -ism is your criminal mind, mens rea.

[@porky1118]

I'm listening to AI generated audio books in 1.5× speed, and sometimes don't get everything. But the main reason I miss stuff is probably not the speed, but because I listen to them in the car. And maybe because English is not my mother tongue.

[@sanddry738]

I genuinely thought this was fucking satire at first. This reminds me of those insane business people on Linkdln who believe every aspect of your life needs to be fine tuned

[@HeavyTopspin]

More proof of the need for gatekeeping.

[@Paul_Jr.97]

The fact that this dude fast forwards Anime is wild. With watching at a high speed, you can't even focus on reading the subtitles.

[@HazlerOne]

"Is there a scene like this in the story?" "I only read spoilers from Facebook. Please tell me the situation here." “What episode is this scene in? What time is it?" I'm not surprised that there are more and more questions like this in anime community today after watching this. Speedrunners like this are becoming more and more in this era.

[@imJGott]

chibi you savage lol. the last bit of the video had me dying

[@HeruWilliams]

Most people probably didn’t even make it that far *cough* but yes lol 😂 that side eye

[@dagrumblers]

Let tourists filter themselves, it makes gatekeeping that much easier.

[@Dark_BunnyXx]

I have an easy solution, if you wanna speed through some kind of anime, TV show or anything like that: Read the manga/comic if available

[@albertoandrade9807]

You are wasting time passing pages. Better to hear a recap at 5x

[@porky1118]

Manga takes even longer for me. I'm a slow reader. And it's much worse in general. I'm recently read the newest One Piece chapters, and I couldn't get immersed at all. I'll likely skim trough most of the speech bubbles which don't seem that important, I don't know what to focus on, it's only black white. Most of the time I just ignore most of the pictures. Animated manga is better, where they cut out parts of the panel and let them fade in or zoom at the important parts. And generally for books and manga, I have to actively read, which is more effort. There is no predefined pacing, so I can read it slow or fast. And sometimes my mind just drifts away while reading sentences and I have to read a whole page again. And there's also no marker like in games, where I only see the one text box at once, which I read and then I press A to see the next one. So I'm often not sure what I've already read and read some parts multiple times or in manga even in the wrong order.

[@untemi0]

I also have a friend that does this, and I can't understand why but as long as he watches with me there is no skipping not even the opening, the ending, next episode highlight, last episode highlight, credits

[@DarkyBoy]

How much you wanna bet he just looks at something else in the meantime

[@untemi0]

@@DarkyBoy then I am just pausing it.

[@HaloMillennium]

This reminds me of the time when some shmuck on Twitter was getting blasted for 2x watching Frieren and a lot of people were also still defending them, even though they were complaining about the story and pacing.

[@inendlesspain4724]

Makes me wonder if they've ever enjoyed a single show like this that wasn't shounen or some other thing with lots of flashy fight scenes. I mean, if you skip all the dialogue in dialogue heavy shows, no wonder you'll never enjoy anything. Then again, they're probably the kind of people who believe they can read a summary of a story and not miss anything important.

[@thomasffrench3639]

I do KZbin videos at 2x speed, but when it comes to fiction and storytelling, I just can’t. I don’t know how others do it.

[@quake4love]

Basically the same as YT since with most anime speed makes no difference. But some shows like Grimgar or Mushoku (S1 mostly) do benefit greatly from the intended 1x pacing, in which case you do slow it back down

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@quake4love not it’s pretty different. Most KZbin is not professionally made, so it’s different

[@astro_178]

I watch yt vids at 2x speed aswell even when I try it on 2x or normal it feels the same so I leave it on 2x

[@quake4love]

@@thomasffrench3639 I would argue that most anime are not that much more professional as well. In general unless there is a reason to slow it down (vibe/emotional moment/heavy dialogue etc) I don't really see any issue with speeding things up. But it depends on who you ask ig

[@Travelling_Heart15]

​@@quake4love your argument is invalid. Making an anime even the most basic and terrible anime takes at least 10k USD per episode. That amount of money requires a standard of professionalism that YT videos don't need to adhere to

[@joeperez3520]

You hit the nail on the head when you say these people aren't "appreciating" the work that has gone into a show. They may as well read the Wikipedia episode synopses. Reminds me of the old "Evelyn Woods Speed Reading" system that i used to see television commercials for, way back in the 1970s. 🤣

[@Chuck8541]

For me, anime is an escape. So i like to take my time, and enjoy it. The only things I play fast are some creators, that just speak very slowly, and some podcasts where the dialogue is extremely slow as well.

[@darkrose-chan]

Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. Same thing can be said with life; the experience of things is more fulfilling than the actual result in a lot of times. So speedrunning anything really just because of short attention spans is just sad 😔

[@arghya_333]

Ironic thing is, he wrote a book called "Feel Good Productivty" which is all about preaching journey before destination. Dude is a hypocrite.

[@UsaraDark]

Days With My Stepsister is SO SLOW and I LOVE IT. To watch it any faster is to ruin the delivery of the show. This kind of reminds me of the binge phenomena that Netflix likes to push. I'm a strong believer that binging anime, or any story or entertainment, is a very bad way to experience a show. The short explaination is time and memory; after watching a show and sleeping on it, the brain has to subconsciously process everything that it has consumed, along with everything else that happened that day. Watching an entire show does not allow for enough time for the brain to process the full worth of the show, and overtime it becomes forgotten. By repeatedly watching a show on a weekly, or even perhaps daily schedule, you reinforce the themes of the show stronger than if it were done in one sitting. This is a similar idea to how relationships IRL. Let's do an experiment. If you had 7 hours to spend getting to know a stranger, which would be more impactful, 7 hours in a single day, or 1 hour each day for 7 days? The answer is the latter. Another experiment. You have a big test coming up, do you spend 7 hours the day before to study, or do you spend 1 hour a day for 7 days leading up to the test? The hint is this: how much do you remember from your cram sessions? We (our minds) just aren't built for binging.

[@arghya_333]

That anime isn't slow. It has the perfect pacing. I would say something like one piece, which makes its episodes super slow (adapting 1 or sometimes less than 1 chapter per episode, only to avoid catching up to the manga mid arc). That is why I always tell people to READ one piece, but most people don't have the attention spans to read unfortunately.

[@legendaryssj001]

everything in life you needs to be productive? bro we all gonna die someday nothings eternal, just enjoy the moment.

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

Don't call these casual normies, "fans".

[@StalxD]

That guy from twitter reads a physcial book and listens to an audiobook of different books at the same time

[@arghya_333]

I used to watch this guy's videos years ago (this video made me unsubscribe) and I can verify that StalxD is telling the truth.

[@duanefouche378]

These people be taking 6 minutes to watch a 20 minute episode. While here I am watching a 20 minute episode in 69 minutes.

[@xNico1412]

Next thing you know when something subbed comes out he becomes some sort of master speed-reader

[@HeruWilliams]

😂

[@UltraVoidz]

Chibi just so you know he’s a doctor whose channel is based on being super productive that’s what he’s known for. Also I think this video was a joke from a few years ago 😂😂

[@arghya_333]

Nah it wasn't. He was being serious. I used to be a former subscriber of this guy. He pretended that video doesn't exist ever since.

[@Kleed44]

Bro is watching tv regardless so he's not being more or less productive lmao

[@weaponx22001]

Wtf is people thinking when watching things fast 😮‍💨😑

[@porky1118]

"It's kind of boring, but I still want to watch it" or "I have to go to bed because I have work tomorrow, so with normal speed I won't be able to finish watching this 4 hour video today"

[@Sheamu5]

I love anime, especially subbed as it **forces** me to pay attention. It literally cures the attention-span brainrot in the rest of society. Doing this to Frieren hurt my soul. But that ending brought it back hahah, that was great.

[@mjaramon3834]

bro is turning anime into quick time events

[@spacemangoes1]

This dude is one of the most toxic persons who masquerades as a productive guru

[@hifumibestgirl]

Yeah he’s giga cringe

[@janimumusc6875]

Dude still had to look at his phone while fast-forwarding his video 🤣

[@Atsuya02]

My sister regularly does that crap and it hurts my slow brain....

[@HeruWilliams]

Lol “slow” your brain is at normal speed. I have seen people say in fighting games “that character is too weak” no they are balanced you are using something broken. Trust me man you are not “slow”.

[@cobain2261]

If you skip any scenes or fast forward, you did NOT watch the show.

[@K1KoCS2]

TIK TOK Brain rot working it's magic.

[@zarwahassan5293]

idk if you’ll see this if not chibi but i remember i subscribed to you back when the tokyo ghoul manga was still ongoing and every time there was a new chapter i’d look forward to seeing a new video from you because not only would it help me clear my confusions, it also felt like someone was out there reading it w me and crying w me (none of my friends watched anime or read manga) and i haven’t watched this vid yet but the title mentioning “new anime fans” rlly made me think how some of us have been around for sooo long and then there are new ppl who aren’t even enjoying properly :’) thanku for coming to my tedtalk i’ll go back to contemplating life now

[@ChibiReviews]

Thank you for sticking around brotha

[@TNTspaz]

This would make sense for why it seems like everyone struggles to comprehend anime stories. Or even claim they are bad. While seemingly missing like tons of crucial details. Was talking with someone about Apothecary Diaries a few days ago. It was like he skipped 3 episodes but said he watched everything. He would get furious if I corrected him on anything. Never wanted to blame himself for why he thought it was bad. It almost makes sense why a lot of people who watch anime only care about the action scenes and nothing else.

[@elgescherwerauchimmer700]

Me hiding in the corner for watching KZbin on 2x speed

[@theanarchist4312]

Any other 4x brothers hiding out there?

[@Black-Knight007]

​@@theanarchist4312how u even get 4x?

[@theanarchist4312]

@Black-Knight007 perks of riding the high seas. Apparently old timers had 8x

[@zurcarak]

Gigachad

[@Pele55]

There is a browser add on called YT enhancer that adds some functionality like increasing the video speed with your mouse wheel to infinity

[@nicoleturkowski]

Soulless behavior

[@KuwabaraYuukio9784]

This, on top of wanting to invade our space and kick us out of it in the process out of sheer spite, is part of the reason why so many tourists like to pretend they've watched the things we watch and demand changes to things without understanding the narrative of the shows they pretend to love.

[@MarvyG23]

What’s the point of watching then😂😂

[@shironasama0445]

Why is this a thing, you’re not even watching because you like it anymore

[@FeverSensei]

trying to turn a "hobby activity" productive by speedrunning and not even enjoying it is Wild, TV and Anime are leisurely pleasures not something to speed through just so you can say you watched it, will you even be able to talk about the show the same as others if it comes up in convos some watch anime for the animation, music, voice acting ect and this just makes it so you cant even appreciate any of that work, but to each there own lol.

[@theninjabird9510]

That's insane, but I can't talk I watch most KZbin videos in 2x speed, BUT anime is different

Same lol.

[@HeruWilliams]

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@The1AndOnlyChad]

As someone who watches a lot of youtube on 2x, I'm generally doing that for content that's just conveying information. The same way you can read text faster than speak it, I find it's sometimes just more efficient and can be better understood even by consuming it in more focused/condensed time. I can also understand the annoyance of filler and extremely slow paced older shows that were made that way originally out of technical limitations more than creative vision. Anything involving music, comedic timing, animation, specifically crafted experiences though I can't imagine sacrificing in such a way.

[@Hobopaladin]

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Thats the golden rule.

[@chrisolivera7742]

The way I’m watching this video in 2x speed

[@mainaksikder3725]

Chibi, bro, to be perfectly honest I have never laughed so hard in any of your video as much as I have this one

[@sleazytactics3754]

I've noticed this in myself, not to anywhere near the same degree, but I have developed a habit of skipping 10 seconds a head when a scene makes me "Cringe" if you will. This has been something that I have been trying to break as, when I thought about it, it significantly decreases the quality of the content because it pulls me out of the emotional state that the story worked so hard to immerse me in. I also feel for the speed running of content nowadays, as someone that has grown up in this age, I have always loved video games but lately I've been just running through games and trying to min-max everything as quickly as possible. Somewhere along the line I just forgot how to slow down and just enjoy the content that is in front of me, and I never really noticed how bad it had gotten until I tried to slow myself down; It has proven to be a difficult habit to break out of but I'm trying. Anyways, great video as always Chibi! I loved the ending haha.

[@DJMichaelMcClain]

If you're watching that in subtitles that fast, you must be a really good reader because I could not read that fast.

[@TheHandHistoryVault]

Anything over 1.5x is very hard. There are shows out there where even bumping over normal speed would be insane and pointless. Few examples would be: The Tatami Galaxy and Monogatari.

[@geogeo3733]

@@TheHandHistoryVault Tatami galaxy is insane even on normal speed

[@TheHandHistoryVault]

@@geogeo3733 yep xD

[@thanosandnobill3789]

I am wondering if this guy can read Dostoevsky or need to optimize his books also by using AI?

[@acemiller5634]

I've been saying for many years we need to gate keep anime and tell people that they don't have to watch it

[@markinlife]

I really think this is a huge issue because of the media that's out there. Tiktok, KZbin, etc. have options that encourage this, and when people participate in it, it genuinely makes their adhd worse. I think it's fine if someone speeds something up a little bit, 1.5, maybe 2 if it's a video and they can still understand what's going on... but that's for audiobooks that they want to listen to for information, not entertainment. It just doesn't make sense because the media is made with specific focuses, and anime is ALREADY FAST PACED, most of them are. There's ones that are slow due to filler, but at that point just find out where the filler episodes are and skip them entirely bc there's no point to this. With 3x you literally can't even understand what's on screen.

[@pumirya]

That is literally one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard of, lol.

[@ChibiReviews]

More common than you realize

[@lukasmunzenmayer7489]

Imagine watching a trigger show on 2-3x speed would be the same as taking drugs

[@HeruWilliams]

THATS SO TRUE

[@Deadlychuck84]

There are two times that I really do this kind of thing. 1) When I've found myself with like 4+ tabs open of youtube videos that I intend to watch. 2) The obligatory 1-3 episode test for a new season of anime (Just jumping ahead by a few seconds regularly), mainly regarding the shows which I'm not expecting to be interested in, since they are from genres that I don't tend to enjoy.

[@junhaozhang6915]

while I do agree. It’s also important to note that a lot of the contents in a lot of anime is pure filler. Anime like frieren and fable just feels so short because all the scenes are relevant and simply good. Others just spend time on useless things. So I guess the outcome is people just don’t watch these type of shows vs people who watch them for what ever reason at 2xspeed

[@smirg2975]

Unrelated to the video but, Chibi YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO WATCH "The Elusive Samurai" IT'S SO PEAK,‼️🔥🔥

[@prnzssLuna]

I do this for some of shows. But only 1.5x or 1.25x, any more is just too fast for me. Also for most KZbin Videos, but here it's mostly cuz I think a lot of people just talk too slowly lmao. 3.5 is crazy though

[@LordTyph]

'I want to do things efficiently' **Proceeds to watch anime INHERENTLY unefficiently**

[@dailychan]

There is no way I can’t believe people do this things

[@AroWolfArts]

Dude's really publicly making a fool of himself just to shill some chrome extension which barely even does anything that's not already possible without it. Like, I sometimes watch videos on 1.5 or even 1.75 speed, but never shows or movies. That just makes no sense.

[@ETapz805]

People in here trying to justify watching KZbin in 2x speed and saying it's different from doing it with anime don't realize how far gone they are lol

[@-._____-]

It is different. Anime doesn't have sponsored ads mid episode that detract from it.

[@abhijitleihaorambam3763]

Yeah lol, their attention span is already too low and they can't accept the truth.

[@Akimbo411]

If it’s an instructional video where I’m just trying to learn something, I’ll go to 2x because I can absorb the information at that speed. Going higher than 1.5x during entertainment (usually a podcast) would just mean that I’m not enjoying it

[@HeruWilliams]

FACTS THATS RIGHT

[@inendlesspain4724]

@@-._____- I mean, I just manually skip those parts. I don't see why the rest of the video has to be in 2x speed just for the ads.

[@kwilke3105]

NGL>>>I made it all the way up to Dressrosa in One Piece and I COULD NOT GO ANY FURTHER!!! I seriously hit a brick wall there. I had to 2x speed through that one, reading subs (cant do dubs at 1x or 2x speed. i just dont like dubs) It was a lifesaver! I didnt play with my keyboard like this guy did. I watched the episodes in their entirety one after another after another and it was a really pleasant experience. I caught up with One Piece and watch it regular speed every week now but SOMETIMES, not all the time forever and ever, there are exceptions, but not for EVERY SINGLE EPISODE FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE!

[@Puinii]

Ok but when you sped up his video at the end, I could only hear an Animal Crossing NPC speaking 🤣

[@CantStop0708]

Despite the fact that I’m personally not a fan of watching anime at higher speeds, I firmly believe there is no right or wrong way to watch anime. Stating otherwise is like stating that there are right and wrong ways to play video games. As long as you enjoy it, it’s fine. And no one should do the gatekeeping.

[@-._____-]

It only becomes a problem when they LARP as knowledgeable as the series when they just skimmed the surface leve details. Don't forget, this guy claimed that anime has no inherent value by claiming it's "unproductive".

[@ConnerTravis1998]

In terms of “watching” you right there shouldn’t be a issue of how someone watches something, however when it becomes beyond watching like a discussion or a opinion is when the way you watch something then becomes important. Like for example if you want to have a discussion with your opinion on the voice acting of a anime you are watching, if you are watching this anime in a speed up form where all the voices becomes mumbled or a edited (outside of what has been professionally edited) state, you literally not hearing the voices at all in their normal natural state. Question then brings up to those people, how can you tell if the voice acting is any good or not? The actual answer for these people, they have no idea because they can’t actually tell. You of course have people who try to explain but normally they ended up getting disproven, you have to be super human to even tell a natural state on something that’s going fast as most people cannot do that. That is the issue at play, by watching something that is sped up you then start sacrificing your full right to have a discussion or opinion of whatever you are watching mainly outside you generally talks, it especially becomes more sacrificing your right to review something as why should someone that speed watched something review anything when there’s a good chance they missed a lot of details. So again it’s not the actual watching but what comes afterwards is what the issue of speed watching something comes at play. (Side note, the reason why games do not have a right or wrong way to play them is because it’s just that, you “play” with video games and there’s definitely no such thing as a right or wrong way to “play” something. Watching on the other hand does actually technically have a right or wrong way to watch something mainly when doing it for learning something, as yes there is a right & wrong way to watch something to learn something. That’s why I don’t get why you try and used the right or wrong statement for video games in this because “playing” & “watching” are two separate types of action, entertainment & words)

[@inendlesspain4724]

Game journos were using this very same argument to support the idea of FromSoftware games having easy modes (which defeats the whole purpose of how those games are designed). There ARE right ways of experiencing each individual piece of media, the ones intended by the author, and trying to find "alternative" ways is almost always like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

[@-._____-]

@@inendlesspain4724 Not always true. Take Smash Melee for example. It was made to be a casual party experience, but people were able to have fun turning into a hyper competitive game, even though that wasn't what the dev intended. Same for other games where certain challenge runs are popular. But I agree that people who want to dumb down games to have forced easy modes are just trying to get participation trophies for doing the equivalent of watching the game on KZbin while tapping on a Bop It Toy. I liked early Touhou game's approach to easy mode: If you play on easy mode, you get the automatic bad ending and you don't even get the right to fight the final boss.

[@inendlesspain4724]

@@-._____- What you describe is usually done by players who've already played said games the intended way hundreds of times over anyway. My comment was mostly directed at people who want to dumb down not just games but entire mediums, even at the expense of the creative vision, because they refuse to adapt to the work and instead demand that the work adapts to them. Usually the same people who won't shut up about how gaming "needs to grow up", and their idea of gaming becoming a "mature" medium is turning it into movies with QTEs.

[@dragonicprime1736]

I watch youtube at 2x speed because I find a lot of people try to drag videos out for ad revenue and make it longer to make more money. But fast forwarding shows/movies is crazy to me lmao

[@ninjablade-kk1eh]

be careful bro, its a very slippery slope

[@AroWolfArts]

You will be very sad to hear those people still make the same amount from you watching their videos, even if you watch them on 2x speed (unless youtube changed it after spiffing brit made his video covering that fact)

[@dragonicprime1736]

@@AroWolfArts oh i know they get paid the same. But at least it doesn't waste as much of my time

[@dragonicprime1736]

@@ninjablade-kk1eh been doing it for years. I'm good

[@rafaelcarrasco2600]

If the person don't have time to watch anime/s then go to KZbin to watch clips or listen to a summary of it.

[@MatthewHollow]

i used fast fowarding in animes like One Piece to skim through filler and stuff but thats just nuts.

[@rollantcrajan2290]

Tell them to watch monogatri in 3x speed.

[@cobyphantom4447]

If this really is the case it's over for new anime fans

[@ronel7836]

Na, it's not gonna be the case. The comments and re-tweet discourse shows that this guy is a rare breed of Alien

[@paulwhiterabbit]

the workaholic state is getting into him to the point it swallows his free time management as well. he's being devoured by the corporate slave mindset without knowing it. if you find yourself trimming your relaxation time, step back and reassess yourself.

[@YaoiKillerProduction]

I worked as a QA before for a call center, and that's the only time I fast forward things when listening to call recordings. This is just absurd.

[@ZGundam64]

He will have an issue with a girlfriend or wife if he does fun time activities with them at 3.5x. No woman will put up with that.

[@Goatse-monogatari_no_homo]

He's gonna watch her take it from 3.5 guys.

[@sweiboi]

I watched Bleach at 1.5x speed because I needed to finish it before TYWB started but honestly it was needed because old animes were very slow paced and a slog. Bleach felt so much nicer to watch at 1.5x lmao. I do the same with One Piece (episode 200 right now) at 1.5x speed because it feels normal than how slow it usually is.

[@quinn7630]

tiktok average atenttion span be like:

[@fatalblue]

A lot of this is one and/or a combination of any of FOMO, hustle/productivity culture, and the need to be constantly simulated and instantly gratificated, a habit of which social media has contributed massively to. There are probably other factors but these are the top ones I can think of.

[@Zagrious]

watching this in 2x i get it now

[@HeruWilliams]

😒