Summary of Truly Awful YouTube Shorts

00:00:00 - 00:15:00

In this video, Jarvis Johnson reviews various YouTube Shorts, discussing why they are truly awful. He talks about a controversial video featuring a nurse and an inmate, which has received over 250 million views, and is baffled by its popularity. Johnson also reviews a prank video that presents a boss receiving instant karma, which is neither funny nor justified. An excerpt deemed ableist disappoints the creator. Lastly, Johnson discusses a YouTube Short that received 1.5 million dislikes, where the prank seems illogical, yet the creator has massive success overall. The video ends with him promoting his podcast "Sad Boys."

• 00:00:00 In this section, Jarvis Johnson talks about a YouTube magician named Paul Vu who has gained almost 8 million subscribers in a year, which is impressive growth. Vu's channel features YouTube shorts, and Danny Gonzalez covered the magician a year ago when the channel had only 852,000 subscribers. However, now, some videos have over 200 million views. Johnson looks at one of Vu's videos and summarizes that the video contains a nurse trying to fix a curtain without a rod while a member of the SWAT team looks at her buttocks. Meanwhile, an inmate is breaking out of a hospital jail while she becomes a nurse because she picks up a conveniently placed nurse outfit lying around. The video has 250 million views, and Johnson is rightfully puzzled.
• 00:05:00 In this section of the video, the YouTuber is reviewing a video called "Controlling Boss Gets Instant Karma". The video is a typical office prank, where the employee pretends to be naked in front of the boss. The video is not particularly funny, and the YouTuber struggles to understand how the boss is controlling and why he deserves to get instant karma. The video's title seems misleading, as the boss is just the victim of a prank, and there is no indication that he is a bad boss.
• 00:10:00 In this section of the video, the creator comments and critiques several 'YouTube Shorts' video clips. She begins with a prank video that portrays a woman pretending to be blind, which she labels as ableist and disappointing. She then goes on to criticize the bad acting and meaningless narratives of other videos, such as 'He turned into a homeless to escape his wife' and 'Fake Pregnancy Prank.' The creator notes that the videos lack substance and rely on dehumanizing language and poor acting to generate views.
• 00:15:00 In this section, the YouTuber discusses a YouTube Short that got 1.5 million dislikes, where the content creator pranks someone by placing a plastic jam jar on her leg. The YouTuber questions the logic behind the prank, pointing out that anyone would realize that the jam jar is fake. However, the YouTuber acknowledges that the content creator, Paul Vu, is wildly successful and has cracked some kind of magic trick, given his millions of views and subscribers. The YouTuber ends the video by promoting his podcast, "Sad Boys," and encouraging viewers to check out their Patreon for bonus episodes.