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I thought my phone couldn’t be any worse for my brain – then I started watching microdramas on it | Imogen West-Knights

I have long known that internet detritus is bad for me. But with these dramas told in episodes under two minutes, I swear I can actually feel the damage being done Seven or eight years ago, a new kind of televisual entertainment was born in China.

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