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Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels. I don't have Instagram but the YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway.
Ideally Pixelfed would win but that's very hopeful, a lot of the creators are expecting to be paid.
There's too much money to be made with the format for it to die yet.
Hey that's not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.
And in a fucked up vertical crop, for some reason!
The reason is that too be a Short it has to be vertical.
That's... amazingly idiotic.
It was explicitly created to be "TikTok, but on YouTube". What would you expect?
I expect nothing and I'm still let down.
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