You know, if I was going to ask for shorts to go in either direction, I would ask them to be shorter, because short shorts are better.
short shorts are better
Can confirm, am male and have eyes. 😆
Who wears short shorts? 🎶
Eat my shorts!
They should call those YouTube Capris.
Hey, that’s longer than I can run.
Pretty soon they’ll be 10 minutes, and then longer, and eventually they’ll be just like any other YouTube video, except in vertical.
with no video controls so you just have to watch the whole thing.
oh you missed something, better watch the whole fucking thing again, with ads of course.
So, they’re going to change the name to YouTube mediums?
They’re going full Australian coffee. YouTube medium shorts.
Seems pointless. Just make a longer video.
So they introduced shorts just to… lengthen them? The people behind Youtube are so incredibly lost it’s almost unbelievable.
They’ve begun to realize how they’re kinda impossible to really make a profit off of.
Not that I disagree but how is tiktok doing it?
State owned media doesn’t need to make a profit
Not really. I’ve seen plenty of sponsored YT Shorts, properly tagged and everything so YT’s definitely got the infrastructure in place to monetize Shorts. But most sponsors aren’t going to pay for a Short because… well, it’s too short, so those tend to be few and far between.
However, Shorts aren’t profitable for their ability to directly monetize your content, they’re profitable for their ability to drive a LOT of new viewers to your longer-form content. The Shorts algorithm is very aggressive at referring you to channels you aren’t subscribed to, and that has helped a lot of creators get very large followings, very quickly.
Thor/Pirate Software is an excellent example of this; he’s always had a pretty decent following, but once he started putting out YT Shorts, his subscriber and view counts began skyrocketing, which has also overflown into new Twitch subscribers, as well. He started with a small but healthy community, and has blown up into a huge, multi-platform community, and has easily doubled his YT earnings since engaging with Shorts.
Shorts are very helpful to creators right now. More creators need to realize that creating YT Shorts is basically creating ads for your own YT channel, on YT, for free. It’s probably the closest thing to “IRL money dupe glitch” that there is.
They introduced Shorts because TikTok threatens their monopoly. TikTok raised max length some time ago so they do it too. Now US is going to ban TT and they’re trying to clone some easy to implement stuff in hopes of getting users that won’t move to Instagram. Don’t see that happening because Google doesn’t understand what makes TT so popular.
I feel like we’ll be having the same conversation about YouTube Shorts in 10 years as we are having about YouTube Gaming today.
Which is to say none.
One can only hope
So, they’re videos.
If only there was a way to watch those.
Videos, but vertical.
Didn’t realize that. Gross.
Is there a way to unsubscribe from shorts?
You can hide them with extensions, I’m pretty sure the one I use is called Unhooked, Revanced also works.
Thank you!
They’re videos but worse in every way
Can’t wait for 10 hour long reviews of Elden Ring, BUT VERTICLE AND LOOPS NOW!?!
Vertical ;-;
I swear some of those long-form video essays on games have longer runtimes than it would take to just play through the game from start to finish, but that’s okay, I’m still here for it. Love me some excruciatingly in-depth analysis of video game minutia.
That being said, that 20-hour postmortem video on Skyrim feels right given how long I’d guess the playtime is on most people’s savegames.
A 19 minute video on how you could save one second in a speedrun of one Goldeneye level on hardest difficulty.
I block shorts, so they don’t run anywhere 🤣
How do you do that?
I think that is a setting in freetube. Also some browser extensions can do that.
There are also uBlock Origin custom filters/rules that block all shorts, at least for Firefox/Firefox mobile and its forks AFAIK.
I need to find a way to block them on Invidious. Shorts just bloat up my Subscriptions page.
I use GrayJay/Revanced on Android and Enhancer for YouTube on Firefox (or any browser)
If my shorts were 200% longer, they’d be pants.
Good news to those watching shorts (I guess) and completely irrelevant information to the rest of us.
Sorry I ran out of concentration halfway through your comment. Could you split it up into bite size chunks and spoon feed it to me?
There are dozens of
usthem (I assume)!
Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely
I have a couple browser plugins that make them vanish completely for me. Main one being “BlockTube”.
Only one being buggy is the plugin that should rewrite shart links to regular video links, so I can watch them if someone links them to me, but I can just interact with the video normally
Where do you find that menu? I can’t find it on my end
Doesn’t help on my Nvidia shield
Oh no, I don’t think my attention span can handle a full three minutes. That’s like, a whole movie.
The very first video on YouTube was 19 seconds.
Then videos got so long they created shorts.
Now shorts are longer than the first YouTube video.
We’ve come full circle.
A three minute short is not a short, it is a video lol
