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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 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.

I too absolutely despise the whole format.

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

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

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.

"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 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 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.

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.

Eat my shorts

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

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

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 thought you were talking about short pants for a second before I read the body.

And yes, I do hate wearing shorts, because I have ugly knees.

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

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.

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.

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.)

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

I like shorts because they are comfy and easy to wear

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?

Yes, I also strongly dislike the very short video format you can find on multiple social media platforms these days. On the occasion when my friends forward me things, I find it somewhat manageable if the sound is off. Most of those videos have subtitles and if they're silent they feel less obnoxious.

Shorts are horrible. When I’m not watching them, they grab my attention, then immediately overwhelm me so they lose my attention. Then they grab my attention again, etc.

I have disabled shorts with a browser extension because I absolutely cannot stand them. Fuck shorts.

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.