Some people say they are addictive, but to me shorts are an absolute nightmare, I despise them, I hate them, I’m allergic to them.
The ultra quick cutting, the often chopped style, the accelerated voice talking at you without pause or mercy even at 1.0, the subtitles in the center that I cannot disable. It’s an attack on my senses, pure overstimulation.
My wife sends me couple of shorts each day and sometimes it’s even interesting content-wise, but I absolutely hate this horrible format, procrastinate watching them and wish back a world where this form of media did not exist. It all started even before shorts in the way people did videos, and somehow it spiraled into this kind of hell scape.
Anyone else feeling like this?
EDIT: thanks everyone, now I feel validated, thought maybe I’m the odd one with so strong negative feelings about them! And sorry about the confusion about pants and stocks (that provoked some funny answers though so no regrets). Yes - as you have all figured out, I’m talking about the annoying short videos almost everyone seems to be addicted to.
I only watch shorts from creators who I know generally make quality long form content (
Red NileNileRed, Miniminuteman, etc); then it’s usually something that actually is a short topic they wanted to present, not something they’re just trying to cram as much into it as possible in 60 seconds.NileRed/NileBlue is who you’re looking for. If you’re watching a channel called Red Nile, you may be watching stolen content…
No, you’re right, I’m sleep deprived as shit right now lol
i fucking hate short videos. it’s the most vacuous thing invented thus far.
i literally block or dim the thumbnails with ublock origin.
then again i also hate long videos with slow talking and tons of useless and filler segments such as:
- intro montage
- recap
- sponsor product ad
- channel subscription begging
- alternate channel subscription begging
- off topic rambling/ranting
- outro montage
(thank you ❤️Freetube & ❤️Sponsorblock)
No idea, never watched them. Now that I think about it, I’ve been watching less and less youtube this last months to a point I think I wouldn’t miss it much if it went subscription only or I couldn’t block ads.
The only thing I like about them is that there’s no ads.
With an ad blocker there are also no ads on normal YouTube ;) and there is even an extension called sponsor block that can help skipping over in-video ads
I know, I do like supporting creators though.
I like them.
I like them. Sometimes I want to watch videos, but not get super involved in a longer production. Plus, youtube shorts, at least, often have links to the main video they were clipped from, which I’ll throw into my “watch later” playlist.
Not everybody likes shorts, and that’s fine, but I make them work for me.
Youtube shorts are like Instagram reels, nobody likes them but they are probably good for “engagement” aka keeping people on the site for as long as possible.
Yep. My guess is that the entire purpose of them is that they aren’t fulfilling enough on their own to satisfy you, so you just go to the next one, ad infinitum. It’s the media equivalent of potato chips.
“nobody likes them but keeps watching them” - that confirms my theory that it’s digital crack. I intuitively want to stay away because I feel that it cannot be good for my brain
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Eat my shorts
Don’t have a cow, man
Shorts are way too short to learn anything, I find most of them useless or stupid trash. I only seen a few good shorts. Ugh so bad. Also isn’t YouTube loosing money on shorts, just to compete with TikTok… ugh
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 shorts because they are comfy and easy to wear
Especially when it’s hot outside, they’re very refreshing!
Fair point, clothing shorts are good shorts. The summer beginning is marked by me switching from jeans to shorts!
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.
I love how someone can unironically not know what I’m talking about, even though I thought I’m a rare weirdo reading blogs via RSS feeds without actively using any social media except for reddit and lemmy
Depends on the content. For cooking recipes i actually prefer them. I don’t have to skip through multiple minutes of fluff. I get the ingredients, the steps, quick and easy (ofc some creators don’t give measurements in shorts but we just block those ones)
Same with looking for a new show, quick clips give me an idea if i may be interested, have found a lot of shows that way. Various hobbies also have great little intro howtodoX short videos.
But 99% of shorts are not those, and imo are worthless trash
The worst kind of shorts are the ones pretending to present serious content.
Of course you crammed all related parts about any current war into a maximum of 60 seconds or summarized the latest news.
Fuck you to anyone doing this.
No portrait-orientation video is worth watching.
Edit about the article of clothing: men’s legs and feet look weird and so I don’t like going out in public without long pants and shoes.
