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Man, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts must be really shit if the TikTokers didn't even consider them for a second lmao
YouTube Shorts are the absolute evil
If you carefully cultivate your subscriptions and watching habits it's not bad. I get mostly stuff I'm subscribed to, a movie cut into thirty second chunks (right now it's Braveheart), tv clips with one of three pieces of music overlaid, a mix of benign recommendations that are mostly meh but sometimes funny, and thirst traps. So... it's not good but I do sometimea see something worth following.
It used to be worse, I think abandoning guntubers was the right call. I used to have Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson pushed at me.
IG reels are utter garbage for the most part but Youtube Short would actually be good if Youtube had the balls to separate it from Youtube itself as it's always limited in that regard.
They were just reposted tiktoks, make it make sense.
Instagram has a shit algorithm, yt shorts are generally just worse forms of yt or reposts from ticktok/insta. People are willing to tolerate a lot of data selling already, so why should they care that it's being shared with the CCP?