• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Maybe people think I mean a flawless recollection of every event in the entire narrative but I’m willing to be pretty flexible here as to what constitutes a reasonable memory of the plot of a media

    Like surely people are just not recognizing they do in fact remember the basics of what happened, even if they need something to prompt their memory

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      19 hours ago

      There is also something to the idea that people just read to escape their terrible reality, and it literally does not matter what it is. I once read the whole Twilight saga and I to this day cannot tell you more than 3 facts about it:

      • Girl dates a vampire
      • Something civil war
      • Werewolf falls in love with a baby
      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        people just read to escape their terrible reality, and it literally does not matter what it is

        I remember the good old days of reading the ingredients list of shampoo bottles while taking a shit.