I don’t actually use TikTok or even the “sliding” function on youtube shorts, but I feel like my attention span has gotten much worse after they started getting popular. Even watching a 2 minute video feels dreadfully long, let alone a 10 or 20 minute video, so I end up watching a mostly short animation memes instead.
2-10 minute videos are the worst. The information takes forever to get to and is super shallow, and most of them are going to be an advertisement for the youtuber I’m currently watching. A 30 minute video is fine. An hour long video, I’ll watch happily. Hell, I’ve watched movie-length videos on cool subjects with no problem.
But if I have to sit through 90 seconds of “smash that bell, thanks to my new subscribers whose screen names I’m going to read one at a time” before getting a nugget of content that can’t be more than a few seconds to a couple of minutes long, yeah, I have no attention span for that shit.
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I guess. I’m watching YouTube to learn stuff, either documentary stuff or DIY stuff. But I’ll be honest, other than funny skits that stopped being funny to me years ago, I can’t imagine what kind of content would be interesting in a 2-3 minute burst.
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I started with 2-10. 2-3 is the amount of time for information that’s left after cutting out the sponsorship ad, “hey its your boy/girl” intro speeches, “smash that bell” exhortations, recaps of their previous videos, tearful thanks to their subscribers and listing their new patreon patrons by name, the heartwarming/heartwrenching story that led them to decide to create this video, the second sponsorship ad, and the shitty outtro music/graphic.
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SponsorBlock (if available on your platform) is great for skipping that kind of annoying filler. It’s user reported so it can sometimes be a bit aggressive or just missing. But I have mine set specifically to only skipped sponsored segments and it works quite well on bigger channels. Sometimes getting tagged within minutes of publication.
If you’re looking for short skits, I’d recommend Joel Haver. This is my favourite video he’s made recently https://youtu.be/yWoDSsCX1S8 followed up by https://youtu.be/3c_BodbA8F4 but he’s done great stuff for years including some very cool collaborations and animations. Mostly in the 2-5 minute range though sometimes he does longer.