I really have never understood this. Short form videos are no more or less interesting to me than any other. I also do not find the YouTube main page very compelling, and rarely follow the things that are suggested at the ends of videos. I certainly do not feel ill if I forget to use YouTube for a week.
The trouble with short form videos is that they lower your attention span if you are continuously watching them over a period of time, which then leaves you not wanting to watch the long-form videos any more, or do anything that requires concentration - leaving you to be a doomscrolling zombie.
Yeah, they are interesting. They are related to things that I have watched. But I rarely follow them. I just don't see how compelling that presentation is, how it amounts to an invitation to addiction.
OK. To be honest I appreciate the information but I still can't see it. I clicked on a random short and there are no suggestions at the end of the video, it just plays the same video in a loop forever. Is an infinite loop of "FutureCanoe" making fried chicken the worst these devious cognitive hackers could do to me?
You drag your finger up to scroll to the next video whenever you want to, even immediately, if that's what you want, or when it gets boring. The algorithm is supposed to figure out how to keep your eyes glued to the screen.
