I think the TikTok swipe format works pretty well for content discovery on mobile, so I’m glad YouTube copied it.
And unlike TikTok, the long form videos are still there, so I can click on a username and watch more from a creator I like.
With that being said the algorithm needs SOO much work.
I have to select "don't show videos from this channel" every single single time i use it.
The quality seems very very inconsistent and it seems to have a weird bias towards undesirable topics that seem to have large popularity.
By contrast my normal video recommendations are excellent and I am rarely bothered by them.
One criticism I have of them, though, is on the web they’re mixed in like regular videos on your subscriptions page. On mobile they’re sort of grouped together in a separate UI element, which makes it much easier to scroll through your subscriptions. Maybe this is one of the reasons people hate shorts so much?