Short Form Videos

  • Vine is introduced

    Vine is introduced

    Vine was started and introduced the first 6 second, looping videos. It quickly gained popularity for its comedic and creative videos.
  • TikTok

    TikTok

    TikTok gains huge popularity worldwide after it merges with Musical.ly.
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    Rise of short-form content

    Instagram introduced Reels, YouTube introduced Shorts, and other companies have incorporated short form videos into their content.
  • Short-form videos in school

    Short-form videos in school

    First experimental short-form educational videos used in schools find high success rates in capturing students' short attention spans.
  • Short videos in Hollywood

    Short videos in Hollywood

    After years of flopping movies, Hollywood comes out with its first short-form film: a two-hour movie split into scrollable 30-second clips. It breaks all box office records.
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    Decline of in-person events

    Concerts, sports stadiums, schools, colleges, and movie theaters close worldwide as people choose to view them on their phones for hours on end at home
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    Government use

    Governments realize the addiction to short-form videos in their people. Over time, they forcibly yet quietly take over each company and start to control content.
  • Physical effects

    Physical effects

    Illegally published research exposes short form videos' harmful effects on the body including decreased brain, thumb, wrist, and vision functions. The research is quickly destroyed, scientists imprisoned, and warnings ignored.
  • Takeover of short-form videos

    Takeover of short-form videos

    Short videos have replaced all traditional movies, teachers, live performances, tv shows, doctor visits, menus, and more. People spend all their time at home watching these videos, and being out in public is looked down on except for in the most vital cases. People who cannot afford a device to watch short-form videos on are ostracized and forced into unpaid manual labor.
  • Government control

    Government control

    All short-form videos are completely controlled by the government.