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Every 30 days I have to hide YouTube shorts because if I don't I'll get sucked into a hole until 3 in the morning without even realizing it.
I still watch long form content, but man are those shorts addictive.
How does this work? You watch 100's of ~10 second videos in a row for hours? Trying to understand because this seems to be a common thing these days.
I have never tried tiktok and only saw some YouTube shorts. I see one or two and it annoys me because it's clipped badly, gives bad information, or just shows something meaningless. Random loud music. The same video keeps playing on a loop as I try to think.
Even if it was great content, my brain just couldn't stay focused beyond a couple videos. The constant changes to a new video would be exhausting for me. There's also no time to think about what you just saw.
YouTube shorts makes me angry. I can’t watch a single one of them, much less get “sucked in” to them. Interface is shit, no scrubbing, vertical, fuck it.
Yes I forgot about the vertical too. I guess it's because the video isn't worth the effort to turn the phone horizontal.