there's nothing quite so great as videos just looping for forever. Youtube can stop my video essay or playlist and say "are you still watching? please hit this button to confirm" while I am elbow-deep in a toilet cleaning it out, but just lets the short keep looping for minutes when I dropped my phone behind the bed with no way to stop it. and I hate all the people that try to make the start and the end line up. plus I have to pause it to look at comments, but it tells me how to swipe for more (like I'm ever watching some random one it recommends without being able to see the title), so I have to back out of the video or click it two or three times to get it to stop. and the already bad comment controls(why would I want the video aspect to change when I'm reading comments?) is even worse, with no clear way to navigate it. Plus you can't save them to watch later, so that's fun. Still somehow better than instagram reels.
there's nothing quite so great as videos just looping for forever. Youtube can stop my video essay or playlist and say "are you still watching? please hit this button to confirm" while I am elbow-deep in a toilet cleaning it out, but just lets the short keep looping for minutes when I dropped my phone behind the bed with no way to stop it. and I hate all the people that try to make the start and the end line up. plus I have to pause it to look at comments, but it tells me how to swipe for more (like I'm ever watching some random one it recommends without being able to see the title), so I have to back out of the video or click it two or three times to get it to stop. and the already bad comment controls(why would I want the video aspect to change when I'm reading comments?) is even worse, with no clear way to navigate it. Plus you can't save them to watch later, so that's fun. Still somehow better than instagram reels.