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I get some cool skateboarding ones but yes. Evil evil evil!

Shit is legit dangerous and we've got an entire generation growing up on them 🫠

the AI generated titles for movie clips make my brain melt

Theyre so bad

I dunno mines all a Contractor explaining why building techniques work and then destroying what he built at the end And a guy cooking food on a tight budget screaming about Pink Pans Seems sorta okay

Ive been thankful that my shorts feed is usually stuff I'm actually interested in. MAYBE the first swipe will lead to another good one. But by the 3rd it's definitely trash and I wipe it from my watch history.

I'm so lucky to have the neuro type that gets bored of them after about 30-40 minutes usually.

my youtube algorithm is pretty fine tuned and even then scrolling through shorts is actively repulsive to me. sometimes i'll watch one from specific creators (dandelion crayon girl, various animators) but scrolling only shows pure poison.

I'm one of those incredibly sad, persistent people who has painfully curated my feed so it's like... 80% ok and I still agree with you because the drek that still makes it through is woefully bad. I should stop, but I'm a glutton for pain I guess :/

I genuinely get stunlocked by them sometimes and it's kind of embarrassing 😭

Home inspection shorts are always good : youtube.com/@inspector_r...

literally brain rotting content

So overall I'm sure you're right but i like his dogs.

Literally same exact hat 😂 I love Leia and Archer so much lol

I had no idea about that shorts viewing time setting, thank you!!

I used to watch Shorts before YT gutted its recommendation algo around 2024. Now I only get JapanEats, Vsauce + maybe something from channel I've subbed. Though I'm too drowned in long form (that's a different kind of brainrot IMO) to watch Shorts.

I use this thing. soitis.dev/control-pane... For shorts, my main usecase is redirecting to the normal player. I'm real annoyed how the subscription feed doesn't show you anything besides the thumbnail and title. There's a half dozen people I want to see shorts from, and can rarely tell which ones.

I do my best to avoid them (and TikToks, and other "short-form video") and I feel like it's led to me being out-of-touch but, like, I think that's better than the alternative.

This happens to me a lot, like more often than it should, but mine loads into a More Parz 2-3 minute video about Australian wildlife instead. But I only swipe down to the next on accident

as someone who will always take captions when available I find it revolting the way they match them to the voiceover so you have to pay attention to the full video. I hate to use the term in a way that sounds like exaggeration but it's psychological manipulation

I very specifically never scroll them at all, just watching ones that actually get recommended, that I can intentionally click.

Some youtube shorts are good but it takes hours and hours of curating them. Not worth it anyway.

short form video is aesthetically evil, encourages ideological evil and is the apotheosis of the phrase "tv rots your brain"

I figured out you can basically turn shorts off on the Android app by turning off your watch history. Sure it ruins YouTube in a pretty fundamental way but it's worth it, imo

Yeah I see a lot of cool animation and fun clips through shorts but only through seeing a thumbnail and directly opening it. I don't use any other platform with scrolling video feeds so they're just vertical videos to me. The UI is frequently in the way though, thankfully you can clear the screen

🫡 gang shit