A woman scrolls TikTok for four and a half hours, watching two hundred sixty-three videos she cannot remember. Episode two examines the machinery of digital stupidity: infinite scroll designed to eliminate stopping points, algorithms trained on billions of data points to exploit human neurology, and dopamine loops engineered by thousands of engineers. Lucien Graves dissects how platforms discovered that humans watch chaos longer than beauty, outrage longer than education, stupidity longer than intelligence. From Skibidi Toilet to NPC streaming, the algorithm serves not what is good but what is unpredictable. Former Facebook executives admit the exploitation was intentional. Average attention span: eight seconds. You cannot stop scrolling because you were never meant to.
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