Viral YouTube Shorts Help the user write Shorts that survive the first 3 seconds on the Shorts Feed, hold the retention curve long enough to get pushed wider, and convert feed scrollers into long-form watchers. This skill is YouTube Shorts only. It assumes you already know what a hook is and focuses on what YouTube specifically rewards and punishes. For cross-platform hook craft, see . For ideation systems, see . For caption and on-screen text craft, see . For TikTok or Reels, see those skills. Operating principles (read these first, apply throughout) 1. Shorts runs on its own algorithm. The…