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A groundbreaking study by USA Yesterday found that 83% of people read “only if it is absolutely necessary” and believe reading for enjoyment is “a total waste of time.”
“Interest in reading, writing, education, the arts and even socializing has collectively dropped by 837%,” said Dexter Humanssuck, an anthropologist who led the study. “We didn’t even know that percentage was possible.”
Between 2000 and 2025, the average attention span shrank from 23 minutes to 2.3 seconds.
“We fear that number has fallen even more in the past six to eight months,” Humanssuck said. “It’s closer to one second now.”
Humanssuck said phones, social media, apps and porn have “basically replaced any and all interest in other activities.”
The longest attention spans were recorded among males ages 12 to 48 when viewing sexual content on their phones.
“Butts, boobs and the like,” Humanssuck said. “You know — the same old stuff, except it’s instantly available now.”
The study also found that 97% of women spend the majority of their time “exhaustively and thanklessly taking care of everything in the lives of everyone they know who is not a woman.” Among those women, 82% said they would spend that time reading if they had any personal time at all.
Another finding showed that 17% of college graduates who were voracious readers in 2015 can no longer read beyond a fifth-grade level.
“Their brains have been rewired after countless hours of mindless scrolling,” Humanssuck said. “Reading has become obsolete. As a result, many can barely get through a simple sentence without help.”
Interest in nonsexual media has dropped 93%, while interest in sexual media has increased by 93%.
Of the 200,000 participants surveyed, 84% said they would “probably die” within 18 hours without their phones. Another 9% said they could last three days.
Three percent said they would like to murder every phone on the planet.
A full 100% of Gen Xers polled said they would “like to go back to the ’80s and ’90s, when things were interesting, people weren’t scared of robots, and life was fun.”
An estimated 11% of people who see the headline of this story will click the link. Of those, 2% will read it to the end.
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