Aw. Wish that worked on mobile.
short form video is Okay actually
I normally don’t see people disliking the fact that the videos are short, but the way that they are consumed, is more the fact that the players are horrible and the fact that you are always pushed to watch the next video, and also the screen orientation that only work on phones
It really feels like “old man yells at cloud” vibes. It’s a different medium that many people do genuinely like, and I find myself watching them as well when they pop up in my subscriptions. YouTube’s push for them and the horrible app experience are worthwhile things to criticize, but shorts can oftentimes be fun to watch
I just replace /shorts/ with /watch?v=
replacing shorts with watch works for me.
To get a better player, yeah, that works. But the meme was more for the general content found in
/shorts/videos.
I seem to be able to avoid them in almost all situations except for subscriber notifications. For some reason non-short creators that I subscribed too are now jumping on this trend and their shorts get pushed to me too.