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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People can’t be arsed to turn their phones sideways

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they're short.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's the low risk? If it's just a shitty short, you haven't lost four hours. There's got to be a piece of gold in there, somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

When smartphones were still a new thing, I kept preaching to take videos sideways because all useful playback devices were sideways. Man, how that has changed...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, it is genius.

Most people I see are hugely addicted on doom scrolling content and shorts are part of it.

If you haven't hade use of selecting "not interested" on videos. You should now. I barely get brain rot recommended to me but sometimes the alg is very persistent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

But that requires me to watch shorts to judge them... I don't know if that's worth it, to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

First time I found shorts it was crap the second time though I wasted 2 hours on shorts. That stuff is evil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What site are you using that has these shorts, I'm curious?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Err.. YouTube ? The short video format is called "shorts" on the YouTube platform afaik

[–] sus 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty simple. [the video site] sees how popular tiktok is and wants to get a slice of that "short format" pie. It incentivizes content creators to make content that fits the format by promoting it on the algorithm. If there is a shortage of content in that format (and for that type of audience), anything semi-decent will do, eg. highlights from longer videos. As the algorithm needs to fill that quota of videos somehow