What you need to know
- YouTube Shorts viewers can now create content based on comments on a video they’re watching as part of a test, and the creators of the original video have no control over this feature.
- The comment-based Short will show up in the Shorts feed and on the viewer’s channel page.
- Authors of comments featured in a Short, as well as the creators of the video on which the comment appears, will not be notified when a video based on their content is created.
YouTube Shorts is giving viewers the ability to turn comments into their own TikTok-style videos as part of a new experiment.
In another attempt to copy some of TikTok’s features, YouTube now lets users create content from comments they see on a video they are watching (via Android Police). So, if you see a comment on a YouTube Shorts video that you think is funny or creative, you can now use it to create your own Short.
