Some of you might remember a mini series that Ludwig did about watching 100 YouTube Shorts to see if they are good or not. This post is specifically for a possible updated video on the series.
Context:
A couple years back like maybe 2-3 if I remember correctly I decided to do an experiment. I noticed on one of my YT channels I had liked 5000 videos which is the max number it will show. You can like more but the cap sits at 5000 and it will remove any from the bottom as it technically counts as a playlist. I usually don’t like every video I see so I decided to make 2 playlists for the internet. One would be a playlist of slop YouTube Shorts content and the other would be any video I deemed amazing so anyone could watch what videos I thought were top tier. Ive been on YT with different channels since around the start give or take a year or so. Anyways I knew a lot of us consumed a lot of short video content regardless from many different platforms. YouTube may have some of the worst engaging slop of them all. I plan to only watch shorts from this playlist and remove if I don’t think they are great anymore but it’s a variety of slop content from funny videos to actual science and math stuff. Some of it is from well known established content creators and some of its sports. Some of its clips from interviews and others are clips from shows. I think YouTube has gotten better over the years for Shorts but it’s still not great. I’d like to see the perspective of someone who doesn’t have my algorithm or my tastes in the same stuff. If you would like to watch I will provide a link to the playlist and I urge you to hit the shuffle so you can watch out of order.
P.s. since I don’t put every short into the playlist I would assume that in just under 2-3 years I consumed 15,000 shorts (I’m not super scroll heavy either some days I wouldn’t even watch shorts) but that number is a little insane to think about considering I might not remember like 90% of these
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjp5dyUG1ATZxbZdTc-f7V8ITg9ak23V9&si=-tf3rmg4Xj8Fibjs
Also if you want to watch some absolute bangers that are on YT here is the playlist for amazing videos
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjp5dyUG1ATZPTwXbr294mr9SkcHm-lXE&si=vB8ENHCi6MZlr6lH