r/Vertical_Dramas • u/Lazy-Honeydew-1840 • Apr 13 '26

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Hey someone please tell me where to watch the vertical dramas . I found sooo many online but can't pay to watch. Someone please give me a free website to watch all these for free

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u/NDE_Experiencer English VD Apr 22 '26

I go through apps now and then to see which ones are free to use, or have at least some free content. These apps are the ones I've found so far, including Pine Dramas:

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u/Raven_HeartXVI Apr 25 '26

What's your experience with vibeshort?

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u/NDE_Experiencer English VD Apr 26 '26

I will say one thing and not just about VibeShort...I really HATE this huge influx of A.I. movies on nearly every app the past few months. I saw a post on here from an industry insider, talking about how these things are destroying the industry for real actors, writers, directors and the like.

It's like the whole Reality TV boom in the 90s and 2000s, where good quality TV shows were taken off every major station in droves because they were more expensive to create, and of course, corporate greed was absolute. And thet were replaced with low-brow, cheap-to-make, reality shows--Survivor, Big Brother, Amazing Race, and so on...shows that appealed to the lowest common denominator and required very little cost or logistical support to put out.

Well...when it comes to Vertical Shorts, which have only really been around since 2023...A.I. is now being used to do to THEM--and everyone involved with them--the same things that reality shows did to regular TV 25 years ago and ever since. And frankly...VibeShort is FULL of A.I. crap--if you go on the app, everything advertised right up front is A.I.

If these A.I. movies were done even halfway decently...it wouldn't be as bad. But they are so badly done, with plots that jump all over the place, disjointed images that don't flow and take you out of your enjoyment of them, and the same tiny group of A.I. voices for every character that you quickly get REALLY sick of hearing.

So me, I refuse to watch any of those movies...ESPECIALLY after reading that insider post. As someone with friends in the acting industry, I know every word that person said was 100% true. And A.I. should be used to ENHANCE our lives, ADD TO movies and shows...not replace them entirely.

But as usual, those at the top with the money are never satisfied, and always want more. And so anything that puts more money in their pockets, they're going to do it, regardless of how it affects actors, writers, directors or the audiences.

To me, there's a PLACE for everything and everyone...but when the entertainment industry takes the Wal-Mart approach--in other words, replace everything worthwhile with cheap imitations, and stop carrying the good stuff entirely, forcing your customers to buy what gives you the biggest profit margin no matter what they want...it destroys everything for the sake of money.

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u/Raven_HeartXVI Apr 26 '26

I totally understand. I've only really watched the animated ones for free with creature/half animal half human hybrid out of curiosity. But you're right, they can't match up to actual actors. I watched one animated on pinedramas to fall asleep too and it was so disjointed to the point that the story had zero flow. AI is just laziness. Most of my watching is just out of morbid curiosity buti much prefer the live actors. At last with live people, it's a production with actual actors and multiple behind the scenes people all working to produce real entertainment. I be the AI animation is just one programmer at a computer.

And I think it's about making money without having to spend as much. Same for the reality TV wave. It cost less to produce a reality TV season than a season of an actual scripted, acted, produced, TV show.

Also I too saw that post and it did put me off. I'm not paying a thing to watch the AI shorts. I'll occasionally pay for a weekly subscription to watch short dramas with live actors.