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Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some people say they are addictive, but to me shorts are an absolute nightmare, I despise them, I hate them, I'm allergic to them.

The ultra quick cutting, the often chopped style, the accelerated voice talking at you without pause or mercy even at 1.0, the subtitles in the center that I cannot disable. It's an attack on my senses, pure overstimulation.

My wife sends me couple of shorts each day and sometimes it's even interesting content-wise, but I absolutely hate this horrible format, procrastinate watching them and wish back a world where this form of media did not exist. It all started even before shorts in the way people did videos, and somehow it spiraled into this kind of hell scape.

Anyone else feeling like this?

EDIT: thanks everyone, now I feel validated, thought maybe I'm the odd one with so strong negative feelings about them! And sorry about the confusion about pants and stocks (that provoked some funny answers though so no regrets). Yes - as you have all figured out, I'm talking about the annoying short videos almost everyone seems to be addicted to.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm glad to find other people with similar experiences to mine trying out short form video. I tried TikTok a few years ago when I realized how big it was and that I was missing out on entire cultural touchstones but I just couldn't. Too much music I don't like, too much randomly clicking and hoping I like a video, too much visual and audible noise.

Seriously why can't I just see the title and uploader of a video before I click? What if I don't want to watch this person or this particular video? Why do I have to decide while watching the video instead of relaxing with a bit of silence between videos?

Honestly the whole UI was just mentally and visually exhausting. I think I made it about 20 minutes of trying to get into TikTok before I finally just said "not for me" and gave up entirely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Every few days I find myself losing a few hours to them that would've been better spent doing literally anything else. So yes, in that sense I hate them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Shorts or longs...I hate the click-baity ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I detest them. Some science YouTubers have begun using them too, and too often they’re either just cut from longer videos I’ve already seen - and hence wasting my time until I realise that - or they contain no explanation at all because of the length.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah in the best case it's just a promotional teaser. Obviously you cannot explain anything non trivial in that amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eat my shorts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don't have a cow, man

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I keep turning them off in YouTube but that doesn’t stop them coming back. Good to know I’m paying for a hostile product. I won’t forget it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can use a patched YouTube client that removes ads and shorts. A few minutes worth of work to set up but worth it imo

https://github.com/KobeW50/ReVanced-Documentation/blob/main/YT-ReVanced-Guide.md

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't mind some of them but the obnoxious subtitles, they just put me off so much and the video controls that are just always there getting in the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do none of you remember vines??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, it was a little after my time but Vine never got abused by rage bait/content churn and fine tuned by the platform specifically to hijack your attention span and feed you ads.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I too absolutely despise the whole format.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Shorts" / "TikToks" / w/e are just short form multimedia content taken to their logical extreme. Small tidbits of context free, useless information, slammed into your soul so fast you miss all of the important bits and just get the buzz.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, useless time sink with lots of flashy distraction. The people who envisioned and built the internet surely did not anticipate it will evolve into THIS.

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