It's a brand new series of #Shorts!

Evan C Davies

Love the concept. Don’t love the vertical video. Is there a specific platform other than YT that benefits from it?

Stephen Gillie

This.

Can’t wait!

Rhiannon M

The content of the video is fine, but the new subtitles are awful. The font has way too many serifs and randomly italicized letters to be readable at the same rate as the dialogue spoken, and the subtitles in general take up WAY too much of the screen. Please make subtitles an optional overlay via Closed Captioning rather than an inseparable part of the video file.

I am not particularly opposed to having shorts instead of main videos, but I would prefer a full video instead.

Really looking forward to the content. Really not looking forward to the vertical. Those huge black spaces on either side of the very crowded/small display are just frustratingly wasted land. Please, I'm begging you, don't fall into the vertical fad. Please.

LiannaBlanca

I'm liking the content but really not big on the narrow vertical format with 25% covered by subtitles (subtitles good! Size not). I was expecting 1min videos that are otherwise the same landscape visuals as normal. I've not seen YouTube's shorts before, so is it a YouTube thing that all shorts are in this format? Relevant note: I always watch on telly, never on my phone, and I can see why this would be easier for that medium.

Milky

it sure was a joy to see three notifs on the server all of a sudden, i was like "HUH?!?!?!?!" thought mee6 was broken or smthn

Stephen Gillie

Is this a New York minute or an LA minute?

Chris Sifniotis

Okay, I have watched all the shorts so far. I think this is an excellent idea and a natural development for the channel to go into.

Rambles in the Rust Belt

Cities of the British Empire sounds excellent. I could also see a series on cities of the middle ages cover Paris, London, Lubeck, etc. Or a series on the capitals of the countries who went into World War I on the eve of the Great War. Generally I like the idea of a series of shorts doing snapshots of different cities at the same time showing different interconnected aspects of their various ties.

Thalia Brown

This sounds like a great idea. It really makes a change from ‘leaders’ history. Looking forward to it.

A good way to think of it might be as an introduction to the topic to allow you to delve deeper into it in a mainline video. My knee jerk reaction to this was it sounds like what you and Red had said before about your videos being used as an entry point for students in classrooms to catch their interest/find that one thing that carries them through.

Robert Davis

I like these so far but I think they need to be 2 or 3 minutes rather than just one so you can actually touch on more relevant info for the cities.

Salvatore Corasaniti

I think it'd be a good idea!

Deborah

I would prefer a mainline video rather than a series of shorts!

Whichever you do, I'll watch it!

AllyShi777

Ooo! Looking forward to this!