I am viewing it on a phone. Instead of having a usable UI and a viewable video, it takes every square mm of screen and shoves everything into a mess that can’t be paused or minimised. It’s hostile to any action that isn’t consuming more.
Exactly this! Videos under 6 seconds are often pretty cool, but they player covers the video with buttons, shortcuts are all different, everything is so inaccessible, you get shouted at to consume the next video, and it either takes all the screen space or a tiny sliver.
It’s like talking to a caffeine soaked squirrel.
I’m instantly distasteful of any recipe that adds onion for flavour. That stuff is pervasive, overpowering, and in nearly everything already. Unless onion is the focus of the recipe, I’d like to actually taste the food in the dish, not onion again.
Just click on it? Really? For the life of me I couldn’t figure that out, probably because single clicking does basically nothing in normal videos.
I don’t want to use other apps, I want to read comments and descriptions. If I can’t get context there’s no reason for me to be there, and I may as well never open a short to begin with.
Everything about shorts are designed to shove more noise down your eyes, but I want to learn something. Even the community posts are better for that.