ADHD memes

Yes, absolutely.

If anyone is looking to block shorts, there’s a cool uBlock origin list for it; https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

can't stand them cause i hate vertical videos. at first they were restricted to vine, then tiktok... then they broke containment and every video service out there wanted to stuff them in their app whether people asked for them or not.

I like shorts.

They're comfy and easy to watch.

That doesn't mean they're all good. Just like everything else, there's a few things that are good and a whole lot of things that suck, hard.

No idea, never watched them. Now that I think about it, I've been watching less and less youtube this last months to a point I think I wouldn't miss it much if it went subscription only or I couldn't block ads.

I like them.

I absolutely hate these shitty little fucking videos with a passion. Which is why I told them to piss the fuck off with YouTube ReVanced.

Depends on the content. For cooking recipes i actually prefer them. I don't have to skip through multiple minutes of fluff. I get the ingredients, the steps, quick and easy (ofc some creators don't give measurements in shorts but we just block those ones)

Same with looking for a new show, quick clips give me an idea if i may be interested, have found a lot of shows that way. Various hobbies also have great little intro howtodoX short videos.

But 99% of shorts are not those, and imo are worthless trash

I quite like shorts, but I only watch specific videos. I watch woodworking and Minecraft build videos to see if the technique is something that I'd want to try myself, and then either watch the longer version, or find other ways to try it out.

This is exactly why I hate TikTok and FB videos too, and once Instagram started hopping on that train I quit and never looked back.

If the information you want to share is worthwhile, it’ll be written out where I can read it at my own pace.

The excessive speed and nightmare for reasonable accessibility (not to mention the self-censoring that screws up the point of subtitles) makes me instinctively upset too. You’re not alone.

Worse: my wife watches shorts on the TV, wasting 75% screen real estate

The worst kind of shorts are the ones pretending to present serious content.

Of course you crammed all related parts about any current war into a maximum of 60 seconds or summarized the latest news.

Fuck you to anyone doing this.

I refuse to browse/watch shorts directly; probably because I know I'll get sucked in to it for several hours, but I also know there's very little useful/valuable info there. I will however occasionally watch other typically gaming YouTubers, reacting to collections of shorts.

I used to feel that way, they didn't have the depth I wanted.

My wife has sent me so many tiktoks that I got used to it.

Now I still don't watch them, but because I'd get stuck in them. Whatever my wife sends, and specific ones from content people I know make quality, and that's about it. Once you get past them being presented in a new way, they're more addicting to ADHD brains.

I will say that if you were gonna pick your minute long vertical video platform, tiktok is the best one, YouTube the worst, but Facebook and Instagram are a lot closer to YouTube shorts than tiktoks. I'm reasonably confident it's because YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram see it as a way to extend your stay on a platform with other content, while tiktok focuses on it exclusively. Their algorithms are doing different things.

No portrait-orientation video is worth watching.

Edit about the article of clothing: men's legs and feet look weird and so I don't like going out in public without long pants and shoes.

I like them. Sometimes I want to watch videos, but not get super involved in a longer production. Plus, youtube shorts, at least, often have links to the main video they were clipped from, which I'll throw into my "watch later" playlist.

Not everybody likes shorts, and that's fine, but I make them work for me.

I only watch shorts from creators who I know generally make quality long form content (~~Red Nile~~ NileRed, Miniminuteman, etc); then it’s usually something that actually is a short topic they wanted to present, not something they’re just trying to cram as much into it as possible in 60 seconds.

I've watched enough of them that I can tell which ones are good within the first 2 seconds. The YT algorithm is crap and gives me a lot of garbage to swipe past anytime I open Shorts.

The way I see it is to choose a normal length video, say 30 minutes of content, and watch that, or to scroll through Shorts for 30 minutes and maybe find a few good ones. It's a terrible tradeoff.

I seriously thought you were talking about pants until like halfway through and was going to be like shut your mouth.

But yeah the majority of short form content sucks ass

Shorts sre awesome, way better than pants unless it is cold out or I am doing something that would scratch up my legs.

Oh, you mean the youtube shit. It is the worst of that video format and they all suck.

Fast cutting is a well-known and widely used filmmaking technique:

This method creates a rhythm or pace that can heighten tension, convey action, or suggest urgency within a scene.

It’s often used to keep viewers engaged and emotionally connected to the content on screen.

https://filmlifestyle.com/what-is-fast-cutting-in-film/

Unfortunately, "content creators" know this too and use it to manipulate viewers.

I like to wear them.

Watching the short form content video kinda thing… no thanks. I refuse to touch those with a 10m stick, I also find it quite irritating when my gf watches them in bed. Every 2 seconds I hear some entirely different scenario, pretty stressful for me.

If I want to watch videos, I usually just take some time for that. I’d say my average video length on YouTube is about 30-45min

I like shorts because they are comfy and easy to wear

Youtube shorts are like Instagram reels, nobody likes them but they are probably good for "engagement" aka keeping people on the site for as long as possible.

I wasn't sure if this post was about the media format or the piece of clothing, but my answer is the same for both: They're annoying and of limited use, and I absolutely hate them.

I thought you were talking about short pants for a second before I read the body.

And yes, I do hate wearing shorts, because I have ugly knees.

i have had this conversation with my wife before when she used to show me one specific person who had very quick cuts of about a second each. i hated it so much, i would feel anxious and it would take me a while to calm down. and in that case there was no voiceover to keep track of.

FB shorts? i hate that people who dont have ADHD make ADHD video pages where they just do random stupid shit and then attribute it to their self-dianogsed ADHD. making ADHD/autism/OCD your entire personality when you dont even have it is one of the cringiest things ive seen adults doing online.