I Don't Quite Get Youtube Shorts

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Are they supposed to be all completely random with no relation to your usual preferences?

[Dr. T is an alien]

I’m not certain what you are referring to. Do you mean the TikTok videos that are uploaded onto YouTube?

[Hurbster]

I just wish I could get rid of them.

[Cyno]

Youtube basically wants their own version of TikTok. See: Instagram Reels.

[thirteen3]

Anyone get this f***ing renaissance fair whipping guy recommend to them? What the hell is this?

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Mar 31, 2023 15:27:48 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

I’m not certain what you are referring to. Do you mean the TikTok videos that are uploaded onto YouTube?

They have a section called YouTube shorts that has minute or so of clips of various things, mostly short comedy sketches, movie/music clips, podcasts, etc.

I assume this is their way of competing with Tik Tok, but the clips they suggest are all over the place and often quite repetitive.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

I absolutely despise Youtube Shorts. Thanks to the idiotic algorhythm misinterpreting my enjoying the occasional Dodo or other animal rescue video, the site keeps recommending me videos with badly injured animals like turtles with damaged shells so there's a good chance I'll be greeted with gore every time I open the main page.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Because of my usual search history I mostly get people reacting to wrestling clips, “Did You Know About Hidden Stuff In This Disney Movie”, clips from shoot interviews, amateur sports clips, teens falling on their faces doing something stupid, fighting game combos, and apparently this guy who is fantasizing about being Trunks from DBZ and how he’d kill everyone because…they’re all..stupid, I guess?

Jeezus brah, it’s a cartoon. Don’t ever watch Fairly Odd Parents.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Mar 31, 2023 17:50:12 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

Mar 31, 2023 15:27:48 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

I’m not certain what you are referring to. Do you mean the TikTok videos that are uploaded onto YouTube?

They have a section called YouTube shorts that has minute or so of clips of various things, mostly short comedy sketches, movie/music clips, podcasts, etc.

I assume this is their way of competing with Tik Tok, but the clips they suggest are all over the place and often quite repetitive.

I don’t use the website for YouTube. I use the app on my PS5 and on my Firestick. On my FYP there are clips that, if they are simply TikToks then they imitate them perfectly. They are vertical phone videos that loop like TikToks. Several that show up for me are clips from TikTok content creators I’m familiar with, so if they’re not their TT videos then someone has lifted their content (which, to be fair, happens on the clock app too).

[BlackoutCreature]

I keep getting recipes for these and, fair enough, I love to cook and I'm always looking for new recipes. The problem is that the people making these shorts almost never include measurement amount for ingredients so it becomes difficult to make them myself. They're not so much giving cooking advice as much as they're showing off delicious food that we can never have.

[Hassan bin Sober]

My children often watch these videos on the TV in the living room and the TVs in their rooms. Unlike normal YouTube videos they don't jump to another video when it's finished playing so it's just the same short video clip playing over and over again. They'll leave the room and go elsewhere and these dumb videos will still be playing ad nauseam. Drives me nuts.

[dreidemy]

The Tik Tok re-upload site? aka The Instagram Reels source

[saneiac]

I click the X to indicate I'm not interested, and YouTube tells me they will be hidden from me for 30 days. They come back 2 days later.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

They're gonna skyrocket in terms of how much they're used if Tiktok actually gets banned in the US I feel like

[DSR]

Because of Youtube shorts, I've found out about a thicc redhead woman who dresses like sexy Ronald McDonald. So...thanks, I guess.

[Bones58]

I tried to avoid TikTok because of the addictive nature of it but here I am on YT shorts wasting an entire hour watching people chopping up avacados or fights in McDonalds. I’ve got massive respect for people who decide not to have a smartphone.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

The guy who plays every character in a fictional restaurant is no joke, like one in every 5 shorts.

[Dr. T is an alien]

Apr 1, 2023 6:37:46 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

The guy who plays every character in a fictional restaurant is no joke, like one in every 5 shorts.

I’m not familiar with it, but I do love the series where a woman plays every character at the Hellp Desk in Hell. I also enjoy a different redhead that re-enacts stories she allegedly experienced as a bartender/waitress before she finished her education to do social work in Canada, though she has been taking a break recently.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Apr 1, 2023 10:21:04 GMT -5 Dr. T is an alien said:

Apr 1, 2023 6:37:46 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

The guy who plays every character in a fictional restaurant is no joke, like one in every 5 shorts.

I’m not familiar with it, but I do love the series where a woman plays every character at the Hellp Desk in Hell. I also enjoy a different redhead that re-enacts stories she allegedly experienced as a bartender/waitress before she finished her education to do social work in Canada, though she has been taking a break recently.

Yeah, they seem to have one of those types of performers and just beat it into the ground then move on to the next one.

I am endlessly fascinated by the YT algorithm. It seems to recommend topics I have looked up once or not at all over and over.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Apr 1, 2023 18:09:25 GMT -5 Confused Mark Wahlberg said:

I am endlessly fascinated by the YT algorithm. It seems to recommend topics I have looked up once or not at all over and over.

It seems to read browser data, as a meme group I'm a member of on Facebook has been going through a Philomena Cunk phase, and within an hour of me viewing one of those memes my YT Shorts recommendations was packed with Cunk clips.