YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts is a video sharing platform offered by YouTube for short videos. The platform hosts user uploaded content much like YouTube's primary service. Videos are limited to 15–60 seconds in length. Since it is launch, YouTube Shorts has gained over 5 trillion views in total.
Overview.
YouTube Shorts was started in September 14 2020. It is like TikTok. It allows short videos created by users from 15 to 60 seconds long. Some Shorts contain #shorts tag on video title or in video description. It also allows users to add music to videos, and captions, among other features. Viewers are able to scroll through an endless amount of videos. YouTube Shorts allows changing videos and the ability to interact with viewers by responding to comments with short videos .
History.
Release.
YouTube Shorts was first released in India in September 2020. The launch was following India's ban of TikTok. In March 2021, it was also released in the United States.
 It was then released to the entire world in July 2021. The Beta of YouTube Shorts was ended on February 20, 2022.
YouTube Shorts fund.
 In January 2021, YouTube Shorts content was very changed, in May 2021, YouTube announced the YouTube Shorts fund. This is a system in which top Shorts creators could be paid. YouTube has explained this as a way to "monetize and reward creators for their content" and that it would be "a $100M fund distributed over the course of 2021-2022."