Toilet Paper

TikTok, YouTube, Instagram...We can find short-form videos* on any SNS platform. The short-form video is seamlessly connected to the next video like part of a long string, and we kill time by constantly swiping it.

‘Toilet Paper’ is a series of videos of numerous toilet paper uploaded with the YouTube Shorts function, comparing the characteristics of these short-form videos to toilet paper. It also indicates that these short-form videos are fun but wasteful and meaningless, like a toilet paper rolling game.

*Mainly, it refers to a vertical video uploaded by the user that is 15 to 60 seconds long.

Process

14.06.2022
I experimented using the Shorts function of YouTube.

YouTube Shorts is a short-form video-sharing platform offered by YouTube. The platform hosts user content much like YouTube’s primary service, but limits pieces to 60 seconds in length. Since its launch, YouTube Shorts has accumulated over 5 trillion views. YouTube Shorts resembles TikTok. It presents 15 to 60 second long, user-generated videos in portrait mode. It allows users to add licensed music and captions.** Viewers scroll through endless videos.

21.06.2022