How do you watch Youtube #shorts?

[Spotty]

Been seeing a lot of #Shorts content lately, especially from LMG channels. #Shorts don't interest me in the slightest but I was wondering if that's just because I very rarely watch youtube videos on my phone. Normally if I'm watching Youtube it's something I'm playing in the background while I'm at my desktop PC or something I put on my TV. A 30 second clip taken from another video and then hacked down to portrait mode doesn't really interest me. I'm curious if people watching those videos are primarily watching on mobiles or if maybe they just really want to watch all of the videos their favourite content creators release, even if it's just a short clip from another video they've already watched.

 

A good example would be this #Short video released by Linus Tech Tips today which is a 30 second clip taken from a video released 9 days ago cropped down to fit the portrait aspect ratio required for #Shorts videos.

 

 

Thought I'd throw up a couple of questions in a poll to see how out of touch I am. It's no secret that I'm not a fan of #shorts videos on Youtube but maybe I'm just not appreciating their appeal as a non-mobile viewer. For preferred way to watch youtube videos if unsure answer whichever way you think you spend the most time watching.

[Mihle]

When I subscribe to a youtuber I watch most of the normal videos (some exceptions but most, for example not some product reviews or showcase I don't care about), if I don't then I unsubscribe. But I don't watch shorts at all.

 

That said, I think what people answer here will be more biased against the more hard nerds (more computer, less phone and phone) or what you call it then the general LTT YouTube audience.

[Spotty]

4 minutes ago, Mihle said:

That said, I think what people answer here will be more biased against the more hard nerds (more computer, less phone and phone) or what you call it then the general LTT YouTube audience.

That's fine, it's not meant to be super accurate or anything. I am also more curious if TV/PC viewers are watching #Shorts content so if lots of people say they do watch shorts but are PC/TV viewers then I guess it's not just people on phones watching #shorts.

[Morris_lee_9116]

I wish i can go back a few months to the day that I opened my first youtube shorts and tell myself don't do it

[FliP0x]

I cannot answer the 5th question as none of the options represent my standpoint.

 

A 4th option "I don't mind either" would be what I would have chosen.

[Spotty]

5 minutes ago, FliP0x said:

I cannot answer the 5th question as none of the options represent my standpoint.

 

A 4th option "I don't mind either" would be what I would have chosen.

I think that would be "Yes" then. Edited the option to be "Yes / Doesn't matter"

[dilpickle]

They show up in my feed like any other subscribed video and if it interests me I will watch it.

 

I'm struggling to understand why someone would have a fundamental objection to them. So far all the ones I've seen are original content. I guess I don't subscribe to any channel that posts clips.

 

[airborne spoon]

i find shorts to be annoying especially since they are from a video i already watched days earlier. But even then 30 sec videos are just plain annoying anyway no matter the creator or the context

[da na]

I never watch Shorts, I'm not a fan of short form style content. More of a video-essay-on-in-the-background-while-doing-something-else kinda guy. 

[Blademaster91]

I only watch Shorts vids i'm interested in from channels I like, but I still don't like Shorts because of everything being in vertical smartphone camera mode, and no option to rewind or change volume.

[Heliian]

I watch my YouTubes equally on desktop, laptop and mobile devices. 

 

I avoid shorts. 

 

If I wanted short, pointless content then I'd be on tiktok.  

[Needfuldoer]

16 hours ago, Caroline said:

I don't watch shorts because I can't stand that moronic aspect ratio.

 

[snip]

Say "no" to vertical video.

 

 

[da na]

32 minutes ago, airborne spoon said:

i find shorts to be annoying especially since they are from a video i already watched days earlier. But even then 30 sec videos are just plain annoying anyway no matter the creator or the context

Kind of feels like having a bucket of information poured on you. Too much too fast

[poochyena]

5 hours ago, dilpickle said:

I'm struggling to understand why someone would have a fundamental objection to them.

Because they are TOO short. There are no channels I subscribe to that posts interesting shorts. Its almost always, including LTT shorts, just extremely cut down long videos with no substance. I just generally have no interested in short videos. If a video is under 1 minute, it likely would have been much better to have just been an image with text.

Same with tiktok too. 90% of the tiktok videos friends send me could have just as easily been a photo with text and been much better.
This tweet and photo gives you just as much information about the thing than the short does, and its much easier to consume as content.

 

[dilpickle]

5 hours ago, poochyena said:

There are no channels I subscribe to that posts interesting shorts.

Then you need to subscribe to better channels.

[poochyena]

4 minutes ago, dilpickle said:

Then you need to subscribe to better channels.

such as?

[dilpickle]

3 minutes ago, poochyena said:

such as?

Am I supposed to know what your interests are?

[poochyena]

1 hour ago, dilpickle said:

Am I supposed to know what your interests are?

anyways, thats besides the point. The point is, while some channels may have good dedicates shorts videos, the people who usually make long videos have not been making very good shorts videos, so its just been a waste of space in my subscription box. They have just been condensed forms of long videos, and condensed in a very bad way.

[VirusDumb]

Shorts are just YouTube trying to be tiktok, it's too addictive and I don't like it, traditional videos are still better, but since a lot of my favourite creators like Ray William Johnson and Dan povenmire, are on tiktok I have no choice but to watch their tiktok stuff on shorts, I personally don't like tiktok at all because it's made to psychologically addict you and collects data through your biological traits like your scrolling habits to get you more addicted (and maybe also send em to certain political groups which hate free speech), I'm glad it's banned here in my country, it's the same addictiveness, because of which I hate yt shorts and Instagram reels, it's a lazy corporate attempt to replicate tiktok's success by just trying to be tiktok, with 0 originality.

[rrats]

I have only seen myself watching short YouTube videos (such as vines) that YouTube converted into #shorts.

 

Only on PC because I don't use YouTube mobile. It sucks

[Abe Frohman]

Yes please rethink this content strategy, LMG. I understand that you're trying to cater towards the TikTok crowd but #Shorts are terrible. People don't subscribe to Youtube channels to see TikTok junk, in fact it's the opposite. They unsubscribe when their feed is full of this.

 

Keep up the great content (except #Shorts)!

[Kilrah]

44 minutes ago, Abe Frohman said:

Yes please rethink this content strategy, LMG. I understand that you're trying to cater towards the TikTok crowd but #Shorts are terrible. People don't subscribe to Youtube channels to see TikTok junk, in fact it's the opposite. They unsubscribe when their feed is full of this.

 

Keep up the great content (except #Shorts)!

Watch the latest WAN show - regardless of some people not liking them shorts are killing it and they'd be downright irresponsible not to make them. 

[Jorgemeister]

Im not a fan of shorts as in I am not actively looking for them, but if something interesting pops up I watch it, They really should have scrollbar and volume controls though.

[TetraSky]

I just wish the Youtube Short page.... would show the shorts from creators I'm subbed to first and foremost instead of random shit like

Spoiler

Disliking these videos do nothing, I don't have an option to see less of them either or "Not interested" like Tiktok has. I have never once watched a single of "The Best King" videos and now it's showing me like 4 videos of this garbage in a row.
But at least today the videos are in English. For a while it was showing me vids in Spanish and some other language I have no clue about.
Scrolled down 20 videos, none of them were from creators I subscribe to and then they were shorts from the previous day that I had already skipped over... They don't refresh to show new ones??? Youtube Short's page is quite inferior to Tiktok.

[Tan3l6]

Shorts = "jumping the shark"