Intro
Have you been watching your social media after school or work for just 20 minutes? When you get hungry, you go get a snack but then you look at the clock on your phone. Then you realize you have been watching Tik tok for 6 hours. That‘s how they get you to watch thousands of hours of short term videos. This post is here to show you how short term videos reel you in.
How Tik Tok is the Most Time Waster
Tik tok has been watched for hundreds of thousands of hours. All of those hours are just 1 minute or shorter. Tik tok was made in September 2016 but became popular in 2018. The first few years tiktok’s videos were just people dancing, Lipsinking Popular music, and short skits. Then the big pandemic came out in 2020 for the USA and every one had to stay home for months. Everyone had nothing to do during that time period but Tik Tok was getting so popular that it has gotten 100 million monthly users in that one year. Tik tok got so popular that they had added new things such as Live, Longer recording time, A save button and many more.
The Short Form Take Over
After Tik Tok became popular all the other companies have started putting short term videos on their sites. The first one to fall into the short was Instagram they called them “Reels” they function exactly like Tik Tok but on Instagram. All the content on Reels are just reposted Tik Toks. So many more started to come out Youtube, Facebook, and many more.
The AI Slop Overhaul
The amount of AI that is on every platform is crazy. The AI on Tik tok or Youtube is strange but there are good ways for AI to be used. As a base outline of Art, coding, story, but there are people out there that will abuse AI so much that it makes no sense. An example of this is The real life video makes no sense because the blur of the movement is unnatural. The physics gets messed up so bad that items and people vanish out of thin air because it is out of view. One of the most popular memes of 2025 is just AI Italian Brainrot. Some examples are “Tuntun Sahur”, and “Burbur patapin” and there are more being made day after day. Italian brain rot has taken over YouTube Shorts and people are loving it but the content is so mind numbing that the brain cells drop off.
The Content Farms
Have you been watching any short form video and come across a family guy clip that has the title and a part 2. These are clip farms, they take popular content of youtube and many streaming service shows and put them in a tik tok format and mass produce them all over any short form. These videos can get up to millions of views or get none because there are so many of them. There is also another form of content farm, using the most recent Popular videogame, show, or meme and turning it into very cheap videos that make it over-simulated. Then these are getting millions of views on Youtube.
Conclusion
You now know why Short form videos are taking up your time and mind space. TikTok’s popularity is going up and what features are making it more addicting. Also how short form videos are everywhere with social media. Then AI is making bad looking videos that have your mind go numb. Lastly, the Contenty Farms take others’ content and post them on Tik Tok. These are the ways that short form videos are taking our time and mind space.