YouTube Shorts. Pros and Cons from Content Creator Perspective

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I have a weird relationship with YouTube shorts. As a content creator with approximately two years of active content creation and seeing the rise of the TikTok format, I thought there was no way this would ever be that popular.

And here we go. A couple of years later, every respectful media platform has a format of Short videos, which are getting lots of traction.
The only problem is that it all feels wrong. Let’s go over the negative and positive sides of it.

The Negative Side

My channel (Nomadic Dmitry) and the latest YouTube Short

Those Short Videos take approximately 2–3 minutes to get done. That might be great. But consider that creating regular YouTube videos takes hours, sometimes days, and frequently for a worse result.

Take a look at my other videos made this year:

Full Videos from Nomadic Dmitry channel.

It took me way more time to create full-length videos. Most of the time, it involves making the script, editing the video, and doing some extra work…