I think I've figured out why jumpcuts on YouTube videos bother me so much — aside from them just being shit editing. It's because they completely destroy the normal form of speech and turn anything someone is saying into a relentless, endless string of words with no real beginning and no real end.
To put it another way, it turns an entire 20-minute YouTube video into a single sentence. Aside from just being a bit crap, this bothers me specifically because it hits my autistic brain right in a place where it hurts: I get incredibly anxious if I feel like someone is just talking "at" me and not giving me a place to say anything.
While I'm obviously not expected to "reply" to a YouTube video, the relentless, never-ending pace of someone jumpcutting every single breath out of their video creates exactly the same feeling of anxiety in me as if I'm speaking to someone who won't let me get a word in edgeways. I hate it. It's actively unpleasant to be around.
Aside from that, I just really don't see the point. It makes the people who do it less likeable and less "human". It looks terrible to see people flicking around from position to position. It looks absolutely ridiculous when they do it in the middle of a sentence — and yes, people do indeed do this. And surely, from a practical perspective, it must make a ridiculous amount of additional work to edit — unless these people have some sort of magic automatic jumpcutting software or whatever. Which is probably not beyond the realm of possibility.
Regardless of the reasoning behind it, you won't catch me jumpcutting, and you will find me actively avoiding video creators who make excessive use of it. Thankfully the few channels I do actively follow steer clear of this sort of thing — perhaps because most of the people I follow are closer to my age and older.
Grumble, grumble, somethingsomething TikTok generation, get off my lawn you little shits.
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