YouTube Just Won’t Let TikTok Win

Faithe J Day
6 min readJul 28, 2021
Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash

I have always said that TikTok is what YouTube was before it went corporate, and it would appear that instead of returning to its former glory, like other social media platforms YouTube has decided to try and hop on the bandwagon through YouTube Shorts.

Similar to Instagram’s creation of Reels, YouTube Shorts is the latest in the race to capitalize on the happy marriage between shortened attention spans…

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Faithe J Day

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