Short-form content

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Short-form content (also known as short-form videos) are short videos, often from movies or entertainment videos, that are published on platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and others.

Short-form content has become popular among young people, especially those of Generation Z and Alpha, shaping modern internet culture.^[1][2] Short-form content gained some popularity in the 2010s before becoming even more popular in the 2020s, especially with the creation of platforms such as TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, etc.

Most short-form content today is usually shown as a vertical video up to a few minutes long (3 minutes maximum for YouTube Shorts content as of 2024^[update]). They can contain snippets of videos taken out of context and made as memes. Sometimes short-form content can be used to attract the public to the user's other accounts or their other long-form contents.