GOBLIN HOUSE
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GOBLIN HOUSE
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Removing the choice to start the next piece of content.
Auto-play removes the explicit decision to start each new video, episode or audio track. By converting active selection into passive supervision, it places users in a state of low-agency engagement that research shows leads to significantly increased mind-wandering after as little as twenty minutes. Long periods of passive supervision induce task-related fatigue and degraded performance. Frictionless media consumption produced by auto-play is linked to "automatised response to stimuli without full conscious processing" — a hallmark of habit formation and addiction.
Auto-play removes user consent from each successive content choice. Whatever appears next is the platform's recommendation, not the user's decision — and that recommendation optimises for engagement metrics, not for the user's interests.
Frictionless media consumption is linked to automatised response to stimuli without full conscious processing — a hallmark of habit and addiction.
Long periods of passive supervision induce task-related fatigue and degraded cognitive performance.
Automated environments lead to a significant increase in mind-wandering after only about twenty minutes of exposure.