can reallyyou exit any time you like?

Especially fictional characters and unrealistic adventures facilitate the escape from reality. The escapism thesis is criticised in particular with regard to its lack of a more far-reaching psychological foundation. Nevertheless, it belongs to the fixed stock of need or motive research in media studies.

By offering a vast variety of media and analysing what content we love to spend ours watching they manage to keep us entertained for hours. That source of high quality entertainment, curated personally for each user and accessible anytime is highly addicting but at the same time almost impossible to avoid nowdays.