[quickthrowman]

You can post short regular YouTube videos, I have dozens of favorites that are under 30 seconds long, some are only a few seconds long. The YouTube algorithm didn’t always punish short videos.

The method of ingestion for short form video content is what I dislike, it encourages endless consumption. Each video is immediately followed by another video. It’s very hard to critically consume that style of content when you don’t have time to think about what you’re watching or just watched once another video starts playing. I believe this leads to uncritically believing whatever you’re watching.

The format itself incentivizes sensationalism and puffery, I feel like I’m ingesting questionable information every time I’ve watched short form videos. That’s the main reason I reject short form video content outright, it just feels .. ‘wrong’ somehow.

[Dylan16807]

> You can post short regular YouTube videos

Yeah but I don't control the people posting.

> you don’t have time to think about what you’re watching or just watched once another video starts playing

Mine doesn't go to a new video until I tell it to, which is the same for shorts and non-shorts.