Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?

Shorts sre awesome, way better than pants unless it is cold out or I am doing something that would scratch up my legs.

Oh, you mean the youtube shit. It is the worst of that video format and they all suck.

I only watch shorts from creators who I know generally make quality long form content (Red Nile NileRed, 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.

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.

I absolutely hate these shitty little fucking videos with a passion. Which is why I told them to piss the fuck off with YouTube ReVanced.

I like shorts because they are comfy and easy to wear

I'm going to be a lot more comfortable with shorts after bottom surgery

can't stand them cause i hate vertical videos. at first they were restricted to vine, then tiktok... then they broke containment and every video service out there wanted to stuff them in their app whether people asked for them or not.

FB shorts? i hate that people who dont have ADHD make ADHD video pages where they just do random stupid shit and then attribute it to their self-dianogsed ADHD. making ADHD/autism/OCD your entire personality when you dont even have it is one of the cringiest things ive seen adults doing online.

Man I was sure this was about shorts vs pants too. Pants all day every day. Is that another adhd thing now?

I use ublock origin and you can add a custom filter. They put the shorts in a specific panel that you can block easily.

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)

If anyone is looking to block shorts, there’s a cool uBlock origin list for it; https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

I especially can't stand it when either of these two things happen:

1. The subtitles show one word at a time (???)
2. The subtitles are animated

Anyone else hating Shorts?

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.

What does this have to do with shorts? Mine only make a swooshing sound depending on the material. Maybe get some nicer ones?

I thought you meant the short pants. I love them. I’m so sweaty all the time and long pants feel uncomfortable on my legs even if loose. Only wear them when necessary. Shorts are a godsend.

I too absolutely despise the whole format.

I like to wear them.

Watching the short form content video kinda thing… no thanks. I refuse to touch those with a 10m stick, I also find it quite irritating when my gf watches them in bed. Every 2 seconds I hear some entirely different scenario, pretty stressful for me.

If I want to watch videos, I usually just take some time for that. I’d say my average video length on YouTube is about 30-45min

"Shorts" / "TikToks" / w/e are just short form multimedia content taken to their logical extreme. Small tidbits of context free, useless information, slammed into your soul so fast you miss all of the important bits and just get the buzz.

I despise them because they're shallow as fuck, "content" that requires zero brain to enjoy (I do enjoy some of that shit on occasion, but not in the form of short videos, I prefer the lazy approach of putting something on and not having to move a finger for 10+ minutes).
Another thing that makes me hate that kind of video is that it's a breeding ground for "reacts", as if the longer form of that wasn't already a piece of shit. Neither of these problems are exclusive to YT, they're just following on Tiktok, like Instagram did

i have had this conversation with my wife before when she used to show me one specific person who had very quick cuts of about a second each. i hated it so much, i would feel anxious and it would take me a while to calm down. and in that case there was no voiceover to keep track of.

I hate them so much for all the reasons you mention and a few more.

But there are times that I prefer them over a 2-3 minute vidoe padded to 12-15 minutes for monetization.

I basically only watch YouTube on my TV via Roku, I hate shorts and wish there was a way to block them on the Roku app.

If google really wants to push shorts then make it a separate app. If someone is watching on a TV then chances are they aren't looking for short form content, so stop pushing it on that medium.

Fast cutting is a well-known and widely used filmmaking technique:

This method creates a rhythm or pace that can heighten tension, convey action, or suggest urgency within a scene.

It’s often used to keep viewers engaged and emotionally connected to the content on screen.

https://filmlifestyle.com/what-is-fast-cutting-in-film/

Unfortunately, "content creators" know this too and use it to manipulate viewers.

Yep. Absolutely despise shorts. For all the reasons you say, on top of the fact that 98% of them are bullshit and wrong.

Which is bizarre, because I get sucked into facebook reels once in a while. I blame the cat clips.

(I always browse with the volume muted. I despise shitty sound effects like the fake laughter, shitty music, or the AI voice.)

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

You can add a filter list to your adblocker to hide them

the subtitles in the center that I cannot disable. It's an attack on my senses, pure overstimulation.

This, 1000%. They're trying to use every "engagement" technique in the book, all at once. Shit's exhausting.

I keep turning them off in YouTube but that doesn’t stop them coming back. Good to know I’m paying for a hostile product. I won’t forget it.

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

PLT: some plugins of YouTube revanced allows you to remove anything related to shorts from your YouTube android app. So you can spend more time on regular-sized videos c:

yes. There is a youtube extension called unhook (?) which lets you remove them from pretty much anywhere on the site.

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.

Youtube Shorts Block for Firefox and Chrome

Sometimes I get clickbaited into watching one because yt doesn't let me hide them forever (is there an extension for that maybe? Surely it's doable with css or something), and they've been alright. Though the ones I clicked on have only been from one creator and I don't mind fast talking (not sped up) and those didn't have the fast cuts.

I also really don't get the appeal of the format. I've been sent shorts from other creators and it just feels worse than the same thing as a proper video. It doesn't overload me because it's essentially how my brain operates anyway, but that's also why I want things that make me take a break from constantly thinking in overdrive by simply being slow.

This is exactly why I hate TikTok and FB videos too, and once Instagram started hopping on that train I quit and never looked back.

If the information you want to share is worthwhile, it’ll be written out where I can read it at my own pace.

The excessive speed and nightmare for reasonable accessibility (not to mention the self-censoring that screws up the point of subtitles) makes me instinctively upset too. You’re not alone.

I wasn't sure if this post was about the media format or the piece of clothing, but my answer is the same for both: They're annoying and of limited use, and I absolutely hate them.

Worse: my wife watches shorts on the TV, wasting 75% screen real estate

The only thing I like about them is that there's no ads.

I'm glad to find other people with similar experiences to mine trying out short form video. I tried TikTok a few years ago when I realized how big it was and that I was missing out on entire cultural touchstones but I just couldn't. Too much music I don't like, too much randomly clicking and hoping I like a video, too much visual and audible noise.

Seriously why can't I just see the title and uploader of a video before I click? What if I don't want to watch this person or this particular video? Why do I have to decide while watching the video instead of relaxing with a bit of silence between videos?

Honestly the whole UI was just mentally and visually exhausting. I think I made it about 20 minutes of trying to get into TikTok before I finally just said "not for me" and gave up entirely

I like some Shorts. Long-form videos are great, but way too often I see 15+ minute videos about a topic that shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to discuss.

I refuse to browse/watch shorts directly; probably because I know I'll get sucked in to it for several hours, but I also know there's very little useful/valuable info there. I will however occasionally watch other typically gaming YouTubers, reacting to collections of shorts.

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.

I detest them. Some science YouTubers have begun using them too, and too often they’re either just cut from longer videos I’ve already seen - and hence wasting my time until I realise that - or they contain no explanation at all because of the length.

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.

Do none of you remember vines??

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 have no idea what you're talking about.

Shorts or longs...I hate the click-baity ones.

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.

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 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.

Yes, absolutely.