YouTube Shorts is a newer section of YouTube that is meant to be a competitor to Instagram Reels and TikTok. With the future of TikTok in jeopardy and Instagram having unclear financial benefits, you may want to start making YouTube Shorts. Producing Shorts can accomplish a lot of things and help you achieve your goals. You can make Shorts for fun, to educate people, to entertain people, and if you’re successful at it you can even make money doing it.