Almost everyone is affected to some degree, it’s a problem affecting the general population and it’s getting worse. It came with the popularity of social media and attention grabbing games on smartphones. Tiktok, Instagram, Candycrush, etc. It all aims to turn us into dopamine junkies with quick excitement and constant stimulation of the senses And these platforms are constantly getting better at it, Tiktok being the most recent example.

It’s so bad that even the typical instrumental intro to songs is shorter nowadays because people would drop the song if the intro was too long.