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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by fullspectrumdev on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:05PM (#36869542)
The “meta game” of optimal length on YouTube has been shifting towards longer videos for quite a while - one of the more important metrics towards monetising is “watch hours”. So you get a lot of filler.

YouTube also has shorts, which it measures somewhat differently (as views as opposed to watch hours).

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Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% by andirk on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:02AM (#36875218)
What are these shorts? It looks like common video that is very narrow vertically.
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