I like shorts.
They're comfy and easy to watch.
That doesn't mean they're all good. Just like everything else, there's a few things that are good and a whole lot of things that suck, hard.
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I quite like shorts, but I only watch specific videos. I watch woodworking and Minecraft build videos to see if the technique is something that I'd want to try myself, and then either watch the longer version, or find other ways to try it out.
I used to feel that way, they didn't have the depth I wanted.
My wife has sent me so many tiktoks that I got used to it.
Now I still don't watch them, but because I'd get stuck in them. Whatever my wife sends, and specific ones from content people I know make quality, and that's about it. Once you get past them being presented in a new way, they're more addicting to ADHD brains.
I will say that if you were gonna pick your minute long vertical video platform, tiktok is the best one, YouTube the worst, but Facebook and Instagram are a lot closer to YouTube shorts than tiktoks. I'm reasonably confident it's because YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram see it as a way to extend your stay on a platform with other content, while tiktok focuses on it exclusively. Their algorithms are doing different things.
I can't get over how it feels like it wants to take over my senses.
I also hate voice messages. I ingest content on my terms and at my pace, thank you very much. And both rambling voice messages and short, absurdly dense but still shallow videos both disrespect me in different ways. One is usually too slow for my attention, the other too fast.
There are no videos or podcasts that are addicting to me, I like reading and writing more than listening. My ADHD brain can't listen unless you talk to me in the right way to get and hold my focus, i.e. interesting information presented at the right pace.
Reading lets me be me - I can skim it, I can re-read it, I can find it later.
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I've watched enough of them that I can tell which ones are good within the first 2 seconds. The YT algorithm is crap and gives me a lot of garbage to swipe past anytime I open Shorts.
The way I see it is to choose a normal length video, say 30 minutes of content, and watch that, or to scroll through Shorts for 30 minutes and maybe find a few good ones. It's a terrible tradeoff.
I seriously thought you were talking about pants until like halfway through and was going to be like shut your mouth.
But yeah the majority of short form content sucks ass
Do none of you remember vines??
I mean, it was a little after my time but Vine never got abused by rage bait/content churn and fine tuned by the platform specifically to hijack your attention span and feed you ads.
Shorts or longs...I hate the click-baity ones.
Every few days I find myself losing a few hours to them that would've been better spent doing literally anything else. So yes, in that sense I hate them.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I believe they're talking about YouTube shorts.
Ah, I've never seen those. Between Youtube that asks for login when on VPN and uBlock origin I don't recall ever seeing these.
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Yes, absolutely.
The only Shorts I ever enjoy are from a sketch comedy channel I like, Almost Friday TV. They're not just shortened/cropped clips like most other channels do.
It's literally the only exception to my anti-Shorts rule
I don't mind some of them but the obnoxious subtitles, they just put me off so much and the video controls that are just always there getting in the way.
I like them.