Are Shorts making people worse at making actual videos?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
Shorts are supposed to help small channels get discovered, but I’m starting to feel like they train you into some pretty bad habits. Everything becomes about the first second. Fast cuts, big captions, fake tension, constant movement, no quiet moments, no setup. If something doesn’t immediately punch the viewer in the face, it feels “too slow.”
I get why people do it. I’ve done it too. I’ve used CapCut templates, subtitle tools, stock clips, Pixverse for quick visual bits, all that stuff. It definitely makes production faster.
But I’m not sure it makes the videos better. Sometimes I’ll watch a long-form video from a small creator and you can tell they’ve been thinking in Shorts logic the whole time. The pacing feels nervous. Nothing breathes. Every sentence sounds like it’s trying to stop me from leaving.
Maybe that’s just where YouTube is now, but it feels like Shorts are creating better hook-writers and worse storytellers.Anyone else feel this, or is this just me being dramatic?