TheYouTube Haiku subredditcollects good videos up to 30 seconds long.
The best are sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes bewildering.
Ive been a connoisseur of the genre for seven years.
Ive collected my favorites below.
Theres a certain mix of humor and what the hell-ness that does well on this subreddit.
Boy doing something silly is a common theme.
As is a real-world situation with timing as perfect as any scripted farce.
See both in this u/SirJacobTehgamarhsubmission.
Sometimes the Reddit submission title totally recontextualizes the video.
This one was submitted asMy grandpa on his new Dell.
One form of recontextualization is an attempt, real or joking, to explain what bewilders us.
Why did that actor deliver the line that way?
Why is that child behaving so oddly?
Why are the workers in u/AitkenGGs submissionchipping away uselessly at a crosswalk?
But its funny to apply video game logic, and say theyre doing construction theAge of Empiresway.
The same rules of pacing do not apply.
Most two-minute comedy sketches would be much improved by cutting out 90 seconds.
See this successful bit submitted by u/jcs1994j.
It has just enough time to get funny, stay funny, and cut out.
There was no room, in the past, for certain kinds of joke.
Once the technology was there, it could unlock all kinds of previous material for comedic reinterpretation.
They could have been Vines, if Vine had lasted long enough.
Some haiku have alotgoing on.
Its incredible that all this happens in 11 seconds:
Some make a point quite succinctly.
Some can convert people to socialism in six seconds.
Sometimes a haiku sits at the end of a longer video.
Many of them ride on recognition more than actual humor.
This video, submitted by u/MonkeyStrings, is actually funny.
But it requires that youre familiar with the videoDuck Army.So watch that, then this.
Its as complex as a fart joke, but I dare you to claim its not funny.
Not all of the videos are about humor.
The famous takes a pet like no problem bodega cat clip, submitted by u/Derpazard, is simply cozy.
This video (submitted by u/Josephthebear) is similarly unassuming.
It might completely fail to interest you.
Or it might warm you like a blanket.
Theres nothing fancy or garish here, just an appreciation of the tiniest personal quirk.
The top YouTube comment on this video is He sounds like a nice guy.
Again, this is a story only tellable within the medium of short internet videos.
These videos are a window into a world.
They revel in the lack of context, even as they provide their own.
Our last example, though, comes with a backstory.
AfterTeckhamposted this video,SarudeDandstromcommented with an explanation, copied from the YouTube uploader.
To settle things, the school organized a chess match for charity.
There is endless entertainment on r/youtubehaiku.
For videos where someone is emotionally gutted, visitr/WatchPeopleDieInside.
For something even shorter, visitr/gif,r/gifs,r/reactiongifs, andr/HighQualityGifs.
