Oct. 3, 2025

My Vertical Obsession Introduction

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A small introduction into the podcast My Vertical Obsession and what to expect for this podcast.

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Welcome to My Vertical Obsession Short Traumas podcast. We will

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be talking about all the different types of vertical shorts

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that are out there, recapping some of them, talking about past,

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present and new ones, and just kind of dishing and

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reviewing the vertical shorts that are out there. I feel

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that it's kind of gotten a little bit bigger over

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the last year year and a half, and as name

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states of my podcast, it's been a bit of an

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obsession for me because they're so binge worthy and they

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just kind of suck you in and I enjoy them

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so much. There are certain ones that I know I

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enjoy more than others, especially when it comes to the

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apps that share them produce them. Not sure how that

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all works, but I know like Real Short, My Drama,

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Candy Jar, and Big Glue are ones that I really

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enjoy the most, and those are the ones that I

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tend to kind of like gravitate towards. We'll be talking

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all about that within the podcast. We said, we'll be

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talking about past ones, reviewing them, kind of giving my

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thoughts on certain ones. I haven't truly decided how I'm

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going to go about this. I thought maybe i'd kind

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of like do. Each episode would be a review of

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a new short or series, but they also come out

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so fast that sometimes it's hard to do that. So

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I'm still kind of figuring it out. Right now, I'm

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going to have written down thoughts on certain ones and

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still kind of like going through and still kind of

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like writing my thoughts down as new ones come out,

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so that way I can film these episodes and share

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with you all. And I guess as we go, I'm

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sure things will change and will kind of adapt to

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what format really works. But I do know that sometimes

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I will be just talking about a specific series in

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one episode, because there are certain ones that are just

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like really really good that I really enjoy. Like I said,

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I know that they've kind of gotten a little bit

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more popular. And why I really decided to start this

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podcast was because I I had done a whole episode

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on another podcast that I have called TV inside my

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Head about the vertical shorts and the vertical dramas because

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I wanted to talk about them. And then I was like, wait,

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this would probably make a really good podcast idea because

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there are constantly new ones coming out and more people

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are kind of finding them, so I thought maybe it'd

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be fun to do something like this, and I hope

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that it kind of like reaches people and they might

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enjoy listening to this. Or I could just do this

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all just for the fun of it and something that

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it's just for me, and well, well we'll kind of

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go along with it and see what happens. And I

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just know that when I was talking about it, and

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when I was editing the episode for my other podcast,

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I was like, I really want to do this because

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I want to talk about it more. But I felt

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that that podcast was not the right one because that's

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geared more to television shows and I wanted something that

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was specifically for these shorts, something that was dedicated to this.

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That's where this came a lot. And it took me

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a little bit to kind of come up with a name,

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and I'm not still not kind of convinced of it,

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but after a while, I kind of kind of liked it.

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It really kind of stuck with me. So for a

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little background, I know, I first started getting into these

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little vertical short dramas back when they first started like

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kind of airing ads for it on TikTok, and I

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know the first couple of ones that I watched and

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the ones that TikTok really showed were the Unwanted Bride

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of Atticin Fawn and True Luna. I don't know why,

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but they are the ones that I can remember being

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the first ones that I watched, and both of those

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ended in cliffhangers, and I was so pissed. But I

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also think that they were stories or fan fictions that

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were adapted into these series. I think, but I'm not

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one hundred percent sure. I think the Atticus Fawn one

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definitely was, but I do know that there was one

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one short that I watched within like the last year

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that was similar, if not the same story as the

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Unwanted Ride of Atticist Fond. They just changed the name,

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the kind of changed small details, and I was just

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like watching this, going this is one hundred percent Attochist Fon,

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Like this whole story is at Atiicist Faon And I

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had to actually go back and look for that one

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just to be like, I'm not going crazy, right, And

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sure enough, it really was. It was basically that same story,

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but they changed things and adapted it a little bit

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to make it different, which is something that these shorts

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do a lot. So I've found that a lot of

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these stories and shorts, they end up being similar in

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nature and similar in writing, so they end up kind

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of reworking different stories and adapting it to a new

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type of story. But you can get the sense that

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it's very similar. They're very identical in a sense sometimes.

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But I also know that from some of the actors

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who are part of these shorts, they share that these

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shorts are taken from a Chinese translation, so they don't

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always translate well. So that also might be why they're

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so similar too, because they they're just taking one version

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and then creating it into English and readapting it constantly.

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But they're still very fun to watch, very addictive to

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get into, in my opinion, and I just I love

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benching them sometimes spent too much time benching them at times.

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But I think one of the things that I've seen

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recently and that I've actually said myself, is that they

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kind of were little like soap opera type shorts, that

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they're just that mellow drama and over the top drama

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at times, that they're just soapy enough that they catch

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your attention and holds your attention and make you want

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to see what happens next, especially when they post like

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the clips on TikTok, because they show one of the

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most intense moments and then it's just like stops, and

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then it's like, hey, go to the app to find

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out more, where you're just sitting there going like I

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need to know what happens, but do I really want

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to pay the money type of thing. And that's what

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kind of catches me a lot too, is when I

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see the ad and it stops at a part like, Okay,

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now I need to know what happens, thinks, So but

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I know when it comes to real short that one

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I kind of follow constantly to see what new ones

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are coming out, and sometimes they have like really good ones,

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and then they do have like the melodrama ones, but

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there are ones that are just like really good story

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and I enjoy those ones. And one of the other

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things that I have totally found too when it comes

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to Real short is they tend to share some series

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with like Drama Box and Drama Wave, and Drama Box

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and Drama Wave also kind of share series as well,

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So I've kind of like noticed that, which makes me

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happy at times because there are some that end up

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unlike Drama Box, that I want to watch and when

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I see it on Real Short, I was like, yes,

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that works, I can watch it. Because sometimes it's hard

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to not want to like subscribe to all of these

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so it's nice when some of them share their their series.

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I know they don't all do that, but sometimes it's

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when I say that. But yeah, So this was just

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to be a small introduction into what this podcast could be.

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Like I said, I'm still trying to figure it out,

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kind of go along with what I want to do

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how I want to do it, and it just start

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off with be doing some recaps and reviews of certain

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series and I'll be posting those and then just kind

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of we'll go from there and going to figure out

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what would be the best. I just kind of wanted

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to introduce you all to the podcast. You what is

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coming up? I will be mostly talking about right now

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series series from Real Short, Drama, Box Drama, Wave, Big Glue,

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Candy Jar, My Drama, sometimes Short Max, maybe Fat Layer Flow,

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and definitely would love some suggestions of which shorts and

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series I should check out and watch that I could

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do recaps on. So definitely we'll be setting up an

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email if you have any suggestions, please feel free to

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send them to me because I would love to know

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which series you love and I can check it out,

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we can talk about it, because I know there's so

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many out there and I'm trying my best to keep

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up with them, but sometimes I fall behind, and sometimes

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I've missed some that have already been released but I

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just hadn't seen them yet. So yeah, so feel free

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to send me any suggestions for series you think I

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should check out. I will definitely do that and then

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add it to a list of ones that I can

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recaunt on the latest show. And I know, and I'm

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going to try and host episodes as often as I can.

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I may fall on a schedule of semi weekly or

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every couple of weeks, but I'm going to do my

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best post them as soon and as fast as possible,

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because again, set these series, they drop new ones so

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fast that sometimes it's hard to keep up. But I'm

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gonna do my best. So I know this isn't the

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best opening, and it hopefully will get better, but this

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is my vertical obsession and I can't wait to dive

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into all the vertical dramas. So until next time, guys,