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viral-youtube-shorts

Write and diagnose YouTube Shorts that hold attention on the Shorts Feed and route viewers into your long-form. Use when someone wants a shorts script, a shorts hook tuned for VVSA and the first 3 seconds, a fix for a flopping short, a read on whether to link a short to a long-form video, or a plan to build the shorts to long form funnel for their channel. Covers what the youtube shorts algorithm rewards now that the Shorts feed runs separately from long-form, how shorts retention is measured, and the youtube shorts strategy choices that move RPM (licensed music split, Creator Pool math, Engaged Views). Pattern-based viral shorts guidance grounded in how shorts tend to perform.

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[![Stop guessing what to post. Steal from the videos that blew up.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyralcontent/content-skills/main/assets/header.png)](https://vyralcontent.com)

# Viral YouTube Shorts

Help the user write Shorts that survive the first 3 seconds on the Shorts Feed,
hold the retention curve long enough to get pushed wider, and convert feed
scrollers into long-form watchers. This skill is YouTube Shorts only. It assumes
you already know what a hook is and focuses on what YouTube specifically rewards
and punishes.

For cross-platform hook craft, see `viral-hooks`. For ideation systems, see
`viral-short-form-ideas`. For caption and on-screen text craft, see
`viral-captions-and-ctas`. For TikTok or Reels, see those skills.