[jsheard]

That doesn't sound worth it, storage is cheap, encoding videos is expensive, caching videos in a more compact form but having to rapidly re-encode them into a different codec every single time they're requested would be ungodly expensive.

[LoganDark]

Storage gets less cheap for short-form tiktoks where the average rate of consumption is extremely high and the number of niches is extremely large.

[throwaway5465]

The law of entropy appears true of TikToks and Shorts. It would make sense to take advantage of this. That is to say, the content becomes so generic that it merges into one.