cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/26119844
So they introduced shorts just to… lengthen them? The people behind Youtube are so incredibly lost it’s almost unbelievable.
YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes
Submitted 5 weeks ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
They introduced Shorts because TikTok threatens their monopoly. TikTok raised max length some time ago so they do it too. Now US is going to ban TT and they’re trying to clone some easy to implement stuff in hopes of getting users that won’t move to Instagram. Don’t see that happening because Google doesn’t understand what makes TT so popular.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I feel like we’ll be having the same conversation about YouTube Shorts in 10 years as we are having about YouTube Gaming today.
Which is to say none.
Addv4@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’ve begun to realize how they’re kinda impossible to really make a profit off of.
tempest@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Not that I disagree but how is tiktok doing it?
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Can’t wait for 10 hour long reviews of Elden Ring, BUT VERTICLE AND LOOPS NOW!?!
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
I swear some of those long-form video essays on games have longer runtimes than it would take to just play through the game from start to finish, but that’s okay, I’m still here for it. Love me some excruciatingly in-depth analysis of video game minutia.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That being said, that 20-hour postmortem video on Skyrim feels right given how long I’d guess the playtime is on most people’s savegames.
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t who really got that trend going. I’ve enjoyed up to hour-ish long videos on more or less anything, but a few years back the first truly excessively long video I remember is Whitelight’s 7 hour long overview/miniseries on Death Stranding. And to be fair, I did find that faster and more enjoyable than playing Death Stranding.
(Also I get why folks make them: more ads plus having that much watch time heavily biases the algorithm towards you so it’s more money overall. And the kind of person that watches 7 hour long reviews in the background (or while sleeping), aka me, certainly help weigh the scales for super long videos.)
But also, I kind of like when shorts are like a minute long or less so I can watch one when I’m like, on the shitter and not accidentally end up with a video essay. I mean 10 minutes used to be the limit of every youtube video! Will they introduce a new, even shorter format? Bring vines or blips back?
danjoubu@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Vertical ;-;
CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Alright, I split the difference, I think that should make everyone happy.
0oWow@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I block shorts, so they don’t run anywhere 🤣
Guest_User@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How do you do that?
Joelk111@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I use Revanced on Android and Enhancer for YouTube on Firefox (or any browser)
boreengreen@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I think that i a etting in freetube. Also some browser extensions can do that.
Kallioapina@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
There are also uBlock Origin custom filters/rules that block all shorts, at least for Firefox/Firefox mobile and its forks AFAIK.
0oWow@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
‘Tweaks for YouTube’ extension on desktop. Modified YouTube client on iPhone and/or Android. For iPhone you can also use Vinegar, Baking Soda, Shorts Blocker, and SponsorBlock extensions for Safari.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Good news to those watching shorts (I guess) and completely irrelevant information to the rest of us.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Sorry I ran out of concentration halfway through your comment. Could you split it up into bite size chunks and spoon feed it to me?
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
There are dozens of
usthem (I assume)!
dmtalon@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I have a couple browser plugins that make them vanish completely for me. Main one being “BlockTube”.
Only one being buggy is the plugin that should rewrite shart links to regular video links, so I can watch them if someone links them to me, but I can just interact with the video normally
dmtalon@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
I primarily watch on a Nvidia shield. We have smarttubenext or something on there but I watch so much I want all the history/subs synced through to all devices. So for my TV it’s a pain.
I can hide them 30 days at a time from the browser but I’d live for them to not ever show up or show up under the subscriptions tab
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
astropenguin5@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Where do you find that menu? I can’t find it on my end
667@lemmy.radio 5 weeks ago
The very first video on YouTube was 19 seconds.
Then videos got so long they created shorts.
Now shorts are longer than the first YouTube video.
We’ve come full circle.
A three minute short is not a short, it is a video lol
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That’s not short.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You know, if I was going to ask for shorts to go in either direction, I would ask them to be shorter, because short shorts are better.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
short shorts are better
Can confirm, am male and have eyes. 😆
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Who wears short shorts?
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Eat my shorts!
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
So, they’re going to change the name to YouTube mediums?
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’re going full Australian coffee. YouTube medium shorts.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
YouTube board shorts?
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
youtube bermudas.
tonytins@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
Pretty soon they’ll be 10 minutes, and then longer, and eventually they’ll be just like any other YouTube video, except in vertical.
Uli@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Hey, that’s longer than I can run.
anubis119@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If my shorts were 200% longer, they’d be pants.
mp3@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
They should call those YouTube Capris.
xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seems pointless. Just make a longer video.
rain_worl@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
slowly youtube shorts get longer and longer, a disconcerning [sic] trend
small44@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Normal videos too
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
So, they’re videos.
If only there was a way to watch those.
silentdon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’re videos but worse in every way
200ok@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Is there a way to unsubscribe from shorts?
BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You can hide them with extensions, I’m pretty sure the one I use is called Unhooked, Revanced also works.
dan1101@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Videos, but vertical.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Didn’t realize that. Gross.