The lighter side of ADHD
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.
I like some Shorts. Long-form videos are great, but way too often I see 15+ minute videos about a topic that shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to discuss.
Worse: my wife watches shorts on the TV, wasting 75% screen real estate
They should create vertical TVs. It's insane, but at the same time, it would be actually less wasteful.
Being forced to watch hours of vertical videos on a horizontal screen is probably one of the rings of hell.
When one of your relatives films a family event for half an hour in portrait mode and later shows everyone on the TV.
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 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.
Made me crack up a little :D
I did not want to start a fashion war here :O
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I can't get over how it feels like it wants to take over my senses.
I also hate voice messages. I ingest content on my terms and at my pace, thank you very much. And both rambling voice messages and short, absurdly dense but still shallow videos both disrespect me in different ways. One is usually too slow for my attention, the other too fast.
There are no videos or podcasts that are addicting to me, I like reading and writing more than listening. My ADHD brain can't listen unless you talk to me in the right way to get and hold my focus, i.e. interesting information presented at the right pace.
Reading lets me be me - I can skim it, I can re-read it, I can find it later.
I feel you. I used to be the same. I got used to audiobooks in the same way, but only because I had to, when I had my kid, and I couldn't spare the hands to read. I could, however, get some sport headphones, bone-conducting, so I could hear the baby if she cried but could hear my book without disturbing her, and once I was used to that, that became my preferred way to read.
Maybe that made me more adaptable.
Either way, if you don't need to adapt, there's no harm in not adapting. Live your life, you'll adapt when/if you need to.
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.
The only Shorts I ever enjoy are from a sketch comedy channel I like, Almost Friday TV. They're not just shortened/cropped clips like most other channels do.
It's literally the only exception to my anti-Shorts rule
Yes, absolutely.
I like them.