Comment by vel0city
14 hours ago
Practically nobody consumed short form TikTok-like media in 2016. Now it's a highly dominant type of media.
14 hours ago
Practically nobody consumed short form TikTok-like media in 2016. Now it's a highly dominant type of media.
Untrue. Insta stories were pervasive.
Instagram Stories were radically different in 2016 than the reels of today. They were far more personalized (less algorithmic public content), slideshow-like updates. Ten second max video clips, with most being just images. Ephemeral as well, where they'd get removed in 24 hours.
It's not the same at all.
And that’s not even close to the short form 90 second micro dramas that are already super popular in China and are ramping up elsewhere. And this category is now dominated by AI
BS, People already binge watching youtube back in the day. It's just the content is not as toxic as it is recently
Regular YouTube isn't the same as YouTube shorts. It's a vastly different product.
Short, <5 min video has already been a thing on youtube before tiktok. The most memorable one to me is "cat meme" and "failarmy"-style one.
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All the kids were on Vine back then, weren't they?
Many kids were, sometimes. Also, Vine was still pretty different from modern short form content, being capped at only a few seconds of length. Now most people consume tons of short form content, with many being 30s or more. It's pretty radically different in terms of what most people consume.