Don't shorts get good views but that's it. If you have done long form stick to that.

You cannot get "fans" that come back for your videos or for your personality. And most shorts channels die even if it is original content. Plus if you are in it for the money you earn pennies compared to longform.

I distinctly remember there being so many people checking out tiny apartments in NY and those getting millions of views. But now all those channels are dead.

I have seen the same happen to those recycled science, sports or viral nonsense shorts creators. In the end they get maybe 2 weeks - 3 months of good views and then they die.

Only thing that manages to survive is comedy/skits on shorts or tiktok.

What you could do instead is every so often make a short (like once a week or bi weekly) and use those to redirect people to your long form vids. I have seen people do this mostly with their older vids.

Example include the youtubers:

Nerdforge

Jacksucksatlife

Keep in mind these are multi million subscriber channels

Check those out if you want to know what I mean with redirecting. For them it works. If the algorithm picks up their short it translate into on averge 10k new views on an old vid and some subscriber gain.

The genius in this is that the old longform gets a sudden influx of views. Meaning the yt longform algorithm get triggered and starts recommending that video again on peoples feed. Meaning new eyes on the channel as a whole.

In any other case short viewers don't translate well into longform. An art short form creator I used to watch tried to pivot his 1.5 million subs shorts and like 1 million tiktok audience to his long term.

Long story short 3 or 4 years of work making art on shorts and tiktok down the drain. Dead channel and forgotten forever.

So my aadvice is don't unless you use it to pivot people to your long form while being an established long form youtuber.