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
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.
But that requires me to watch shorts to judge them… I don’t know if that’s worth it, to be honest.
What site are you using that has these shorts, I’m curious?
Err… YouTube ? The short video format is called “shorts” on the YouTube platform afaik
People can’t be arsed to turn their phones sideways
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…
Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they’re short.
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.
