You could say Tiktok is destroying our attention, but viewers around the world are adjusting to watch the monotonous live broadcasts of Swedish TV stations that they may have never heard of. It’s time Big moose migration.
For thousands of years, moose crossed the Ångerman River every spring, hiking to the warm summer habitat. But the world has been able to watch for three weeks since 2019, as Swedish SVT broadcaster broadcasts live streams of its immigrants online, using more than 30 cameras to capture all the hard slow motion.
In most cases, the live stream shows quiet scenes of forests and rivers, and if you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of a past moose, blissfully unaware of its international superstar. It’s just an elk, trekking without care in the world.
For the most part, the stream remains almost silent. Other times, you will hear gusts of wind and birds. Good, even if you forget that you opened the live tab on your computer and jumped over a group of creatures thousands of miles away to scan.
As a Swedish student Tell the Associated Press: “I feel relaxed, but at the same time, I thought, ‘Oh, there are mooses. Oh, what if there are mooses? I can’t go to the bathroom!'”
Even overnight, the stream continued. Lack of sunshine, cursed – Night vision cameras will ensure we see every single moose content. However, the distinctive black and white image is more evoked by the “Blair Witch Project” than National Geographic. However, the weird moose is still the moose’s gaze.
last year, 9 million viewers Moose flow to SVT. By comparison, Shark Week of Discovery Channel 22 million viewers In 2023. Considering that SVT is just streaming natural live feed with 15 people staff, this is an impressive comparison.
What makes this kind of live streaming so compelling is that it is very different from what we usually touch on the internet. Your tiktok feed shows your bite size videos perfect for your interests and are therefore hard to see. YouTuber will carefully edit their videos to keep us engaged as long as possible.
But moose doesn’t want anything from us. They don’t even know we’re here, cheer them on.
