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Hey, that’s longer than I can run.
Oh no, I don’t think my attention span can handle a full three minutes. That’s like, a whole movie.
Can’t wait for 10 hour long reviews of Elden Ring, BUT VERTICALE AND LOOPS NOW!?!
I swear some of those long-form video essays on games have longer runtimes than it would take to just play through the game from start to finish, but that’s okay, I’m still here for it. Love me some excruciatingly in-depth analysis of video game minutia.
I don’t know who really got that trend going. I’ve enjoyed up to hour-ish long videos on more or less anything, but a few years back the first truly excessively long video I remember is Whitelight’s 7 hour long overview/miniseries on Death Stranding. And to be fair, I did find that faster and more enjoyable than playing Death Stranding.
(Also I get why folks make them: more ads plus having that much watch time heavily biases the algorithm towards you so it’s more money overall. And the kind of person that watches 7 hour long reviews in the background (or while sleeping), aka me, certainly help weigh the scales for super long videos.)
But also, I kind of like when shorts are like a minute long or less so I can watch one when I’m like, on the shitter and not accidentally end up with a video essay. I mean 10 minutes used to be the limit of every youtube video! Will they introduce a new, even shorter format? Bring vines or blips back?
That being said, that 20-hour postmortem video on Skyrim feels right given how long I’d guess the playtime is on most people’s savegames.
A 19 minute video on how you could save one second in a speedrun of one Goldeneye level on hardest difficulty.
Karl Jobst makes such interesting videos. He’s an Absolute Legend.
Vertical ;-;
Alright, I split the differance, I think that should make everyone happy.
So, they’re videos.
If only there was a way to watch those.
They’re videos but worse in every way
Is there a way to unsubscribe from shorts?
Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely
I have a couple browser plugins that make them vanish completely for me. Main one being “BlockTube”.
Only one being buggy is the plugin that should rewrite shart links to regular video links, so I can watch them if someone links them to me, but I can just interact with the video normally
I primarily watch on a Nvidia shield. We have smarttubenext or something on there but I watch so much I want all the history/subs synced through to all devices. So for my TV it’s a pain.
I can hide them 30 days at a time from the browser but I’d live for them to not ever show up or show up under the subscriptions tab
Where do you find that menu? I can’t find it on my end
Doesn’t help on my Nvidia shield
So they introduced shorts just to… lengthen them? The people behind Youtube are so incredibly lost it’s almost unbelievable.
They introduced Shorts because TikTok threatens their monopoly. TikTok raised max length some time ago so they do it too. Now US is going to ban TT and they’re trying to clone some easy to implement stuff in hopes of getting users that won’t move to Instagram. Don’t see that happening because Google doesn’t understand what makes TT so popular. It’s kind of funny that TT recently implemented horizontal videos and it’s as half-assed as Google attempt at vertical ones.
I feel like we’ll be having the same conversation about YouTube Shorts in 10 years as we are having about YouTube Gaming today.
Which is to say none.
One can only hope
They’ve begun to realize how they’re kinda impossible to really make a profit off of.
Not that I disagree but how is tiktok doing it?
State owned media doesn’t need to make a profit
Pretty soon they’ll be 10 minutes, and then longer, and eventually they’ll be just like any other YouTube video, except in vertical.
with no video controls so you just have to watch the whole thing.
oh you missed something, better watch the whole fucking thing again, with ads of course.
Glad it repeats incessantly!
So, they’re going to change the name to YouTube mediums?
They’re going full Australian coffee. YouTube medium shorts.
YouTube board shorts?
You know, if I was going to ask for shorts to go in either direction, I would ask them to be shorter, because short shorts are better.
short shorts are better
Can confirm, am male and have eyes. 😆
Who wears short shorts? 🎶
Eat my shorts!
They should call those YouTube Capris.
If my shorts were 200% longer, they’d be pants.
Seems pointless. Just make a longer video.
Normal videos too
