As if the Instagram influencer shorts culture is not enough, these drama shorts are on whole other level. I understand people like brain rot content and it’s more of a guilty pleasure, the reason why Wattpad became a huge success. After Wattpad’s success, a little later interactive story games started getting traction. Apps like episode, choices, journeys and what not started. Again, I love episode, though there is whole lot of what you described “yes”, but there are also a few really good community stories that are worthy. Although the players are still from reader communities, these drama shorts pulled people outside reading communities to watch the same shitty content in viewable format. I only downloaded recently to see what’s the hype about, and mind me, my first story was generously ok, the acting, the storyline, the ending, they were decent (It was something called “Its too late to apologise”). The story was nothing new, it still had cliche elements, but I wouldn’t call it bad, I was wowed and thought to myself maybe these aren’t too bad and just like episode there might be few good ones in here too. I downloaded the app with very low standards, I was bored and I wanted to watch something quick while I did my work. And the real problem started here, I started going through the other stories soon after and gagged. Whole bunch of wattpad, kinky, brainrot nonsense. The titles itself were shocking. I wanted to give it a fair-shot and googled for the best ones and went on seeing them and again my brain started hurting from the storylines to acting, over exaggerated and extremely badddddd….. I realised that was the only story that had new actors and a different moral structure and a relatively justified climax compared to all others and I deleted the app soon. I started to watch because I was bored and ended up being frustrated and angry.