https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/sludge-content-tiktok-escapism-rcna77037

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sludge-content-1.6716185

https://www.businessinsider.com/sludge-content-gen-z-hooked-tiktok-2023-4

https://www.polygon.com/23649389/tiktok-sludge-content-subway-surfers-attention-span-hasanabi

https://junkee.com/longform/is-anyone-else-getting-a-lot-of-sludge-content-in-their-feed maybe

https://younghollywood.com/scene/tiktok-sludge-content-and-tips-for-better-focus.html maybe

See Subway_Surfers#Use_in_sludge_content

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-02-03/tiktok-subway-surfers-family-guy-videos-are-terrible-for-attention-span

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strange-tiktok-trend-called-sludge-095746375.html?guccounter=1

highway hypnosis like?

https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/58344/1/this-article-is-long-ah-hell-family-guy-memes-tiktok-pipeline

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pydx/family-guy-memes-revival

https://www.trillmag.com/life/social-media/is-the-tiktok-split-screen-destroying-modern-movie-watching/ probably not

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/29/quarter-5-year-olds-watch-tiktok-videos-blur-fact-fiction/ paywall

https://news.sky.com/story/split-screening-and-other-phone-habits-reveal-how-children-are-watching-even-more-videos-12844117

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sludge-content-invades-tiktok-feeds-033423769.html CBC?

https://www.intheknow.com/post/overstimulation-memes-explainer/

https://kotaku.com/subway-surfers-tiktok-corecore-video-collage-psychology-1850061976

not as sources

edit

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-and-subway-surfers-overstimulation-videos

Family Guy Pipeline Incident https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-pipeline-incident-family-guy-jumpscares

Boring ahh https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/boring-ahh-family-guy-episode

https://trungphan.substack.com/p/family-guys-takeover-of-tiktok-explained

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11915097/Rise-split-screening-Children-watching-two-videos-simultaneously.html