I was watching a youtube video and my cat started watching it too. He's never shown any interest in anything on tv or the computer screen before. I wondered, whats different about this one? (It was an ASMR video) and the only thing I could really think of was that the image was close to was it would be in real life from his distance, and the camera angle never changed. I always thought cats and dogs had trouble translating 2 dimensional images into 3 d ones, and thats why they rarely look at television, but maybe its the flipping of view points that is confusing.
This also reminded me of how the other day I was watching an old movie and it seemed sooooooo slow because the camera angle never changed and the shot lengths were so long. Over the years it seemed to me it sped up gradually and then really went bananas in the 90s, so much so that I'd almost feel car sick watching tv. I think it has slowed down a bit. Also there's a lot less of that weird, jittery, hand held camera, documentary or blair witch style thing these days. I hated that.
Anyway, do you thing these changes are related in any way to other social changes - a faster pace of life?