Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.

It’s like talking to a caffeine soaked squirrel.

I can load a normal 1080p video for like 5 minutes before a short will even fucking start.

Idk what’s wrong with them, but shorts are fucking awful to load

replace /short/ with /v/ and you get the regular UI

My problem with them is this and YouTube’s aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).

In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I’m thinking more of this though…I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that’d be a good fit.

Aw. Wish that worked on mobile.

yes

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I normally don’t see people disliking the fact that the videos are short, but the way that they are consumed, is more the fact that the players are horrible and the fact that you are always pushed to watch the next video, and also the screen orientation that only work on phones

It really feels like “old man yells at cloud” vibes. It’s a different medium that many people do genuinely like, and I find myself watching them as well when they pop up in my subscriptions. YouTube’s push for them and the horrible app experience are worthwhile things to criticize, but shorts can oftentimes be fun to watch