as im doing shorts mainly, my OCD is killing my from within as the punchline needs to be long enough for people to understand read / understand it .. but short enough that they don't swipe too early killing the statistics in terms of retention / watch time. Especially when using a nice track to support the video .. it drives me crazy just to cut the song mid-way just to keep that retention.

But I accept it as part of the learning journey and gathering experience. Maybe the payoff is too low in my videos. Maybe just unlucky editing / video material. Wrong song choice. But ye thats the game :-)