Why does nearly every short video on FB, TT or IG cut off short?

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It’s a trend I’ve noticed lately and it’s been bugging me. So many short videos on these platforms either cut off before end, often meaning you miss the end of the process or the final product, or flashes the result for half a second so you can’t see it properly. Some of them cut out in the middle of those annoying robotic narrations.

My cynical theory is that it’s done to generate traffic and views, because people with watch it again thinking it glitched, or go to their page to see if there is a part 2 they are missing. But I wonder if there is a logical explanation for it.

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These sites *repost* videos to entertain, not to instruct. You’re seeing footage that’s reformatted to evoke emotions, not to provide a documentary and/or thorough accounting of what happened and all the repercussions.

The second reason is because the sites have somewhat stringent rules about content that’s not appropriate (blood, gore, nudity, showing people actually getting injured, showing people suffering pain from an injury, etc.) and the video is cut short so that it doesn’t show any of that stuff, so that the platform will not BAN the video.