YouTubers already become a steaming pile of shit, the shorts being pushed in your face constantly is just a symptom. Their algo, content and ads are just horrific. I used to surf YouTube a ton, now I only go when I'm looking for specific instructional type videos, maybe a review. Watch that and leave.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Some creators have made mostly dusts and stopped making normal videos. I don’t watch sorts as they are too addicting.
I enjoy YouTube Shorts a great deal. It could definitely be easier to curate your feed than it is, but I have a great deal of intractable pain at all times, and I like the fluffy format. It's easy to digest and understand and move on to the next one when my attention span is completely destroyed by the constant intense pain. Sometimes it's the only thing that gets me through the day.
As a fellow chronic pain sufferer, I sympathize. But the answer is not to make YouTube more like TikTok, it's for people like you to go to TikTok, which is already set up for viewing like that. The world is not built to cater to people like you and me. We're a minority and we need special care and we can't expect everyone else to accommodate that.
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