YouTube is cleaning up one of the worst parts of Shorts

Giving low-effort Shorts less room to breathe. YouTube is cleaning up one of the worst parts of Shorts. YouTube Shorts will prioritize original content over reposts.

Mobile YouTube is cleaning up one of the worst parts of Shorts Giving low-effort Shorts less room to breathe. Reused clips can still surface if creators add meaningful commentary, editing, storytelling, or another original angle. For viewers, the change should make the Shorts feed feel less repetitive, while creators clipping their own long-form videos likely won’t be affected.

YouTube Shorts have never exactly been a fan-favorite feature. From users wanting Shorts to be a standalone app, to YouTube itself letting users set their daily Shorts feed limit to zer o, there’s no shortage of signs pointing to how unhappy many users are with how aggressively short-form video has been pushed across the platform. One of the big reasons behind the disdain is the sheer amount of slop that floods the Shorts feed.

YouTube knows that, and it is now starting to prioritize original content on Shorts.