His name is Rudy, he is 34 years old, he was born and raised in France but he is Italian, he lives in Milan, he develops software for work and on social media everyone talks about him: this is perhaps the description of the Shorter that the Shorter would most like, who became famous on TikTok and Instagram by summarizing other people’s videos. Shortening the explanations, in short.
Short and concise, this description however leaves out some important information about this vigilante of the talkative and avenger of pipponi. First of all, the fact that Rudy suffers from Asperger’s syndrome (former name for level one autism spectrum disorder), that is, he is suffers from a form of autism which makes it difficult for him to concentrate on something for long. As a 4-5 minute video that he wants to shorten for followers, for example.
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Despite this, he does it and does it with considerable success: “I have I opened my profile on TikTok, my first on any social network, on February 4th last, followed by those on Instagram and Threads,” he told us on the phone. In just over a month, you have achieved objectively incredible results: 189 thousand followers and 2.2 million likes on TikTok, almost 225mila follower su Instagram and thousands and thousands of tags and appeals from those who daily ask him to shorten this and that.
“In a month I saved you 14 hours, 7 minutes and 6 seconds of your precious time”, he writes (a little jokingly and a little not) in his bio on social media, explaining what he does, for those who don’t understand watching it: he chooses a long video to use as a basis, he watches it in full , captures the salient points and the gist of the speech, then makes a new version of it, summing it all up in a very short clip. Even adding a sign with time saved.
Rudy is not the first Shortener in the world, as we knew and as he confirmed to us, because there are others in the United States, in Spain, Israel, France, but he is the first to have brought this trend to Italy. And for him, as mentioned, everything is a little more complicated: “They say that those who suffer from my form of autism have certain abilities, but this is definitely not the case – he explained to us sincerely – For us who have this syndrome, maintain attention on topics that have nothing to do with our interests it is very difficult. And sometimes it also becomes a suffering”.
Rudy, whose interests are the mathematicsthe physics quantum and the encryption (related to his work, in fact), he started doing what he does on social media “a bit for fun and a bit as a challenge to myselfdefinitely not with the intention of having the success I am having.”
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Success that wasn’t all roses and flowers, as he explained to us and as those who follow him on TikTok know, where the profile was also shadow banned for a few days (things?): “Maybe they took me for a spammer, because I published up to 8 contents a day – he told us – Now I focus less on quantity and more on quality, I also bought a microphone for have better audio performance. I publish less, but better.”
It works like this: in the morning, Rudy check which videos he was tagged inwhere his intervention is most required and whether it is a suitable job for Accorciabro: “I choose one, I look at it, sometimes I’m forced to look at it even 2-3 times, because I get distracted and I can’t pay attention to it, if necessary I take notes with pen and paper, then I decide if I can do something about it.” Not all the videos he watches become videos of him, but he tries to dedicate his interest to all of them. And not everyone requires the same type of commitment: “If I have to shorten a Geopop video, I have to follow it without getting distracted – he told us with a smile – If I have to do the same with a video of Giulia De Lellis putting on make-up, I’m pretty sure I can put it at 2x and don’t miss anything fundamental.”
What about other creators? How do they take this synthesizer enthusiasm? It depends, and it depends a little differently than usual: “The younger ones, I would say those under 25, are the ones who get offended the most, sometimes they almost get angry. The older and more mature ones, on the other hand, appreciate, sometimes even ride this thing and understand that it is a kind of satirical work.” Any examples? “I remember that Iris Ferrari (an influencer with over 3.5 million followers, ed.) was very annoyed, but I really appreciated the double repost with the lawyer Giuseppe Di Palowho was good at playing the game.”
In general, on around 200 videos done so far, the most complex ones are those that started from the so-called storytimes (“particularly those of girls”, Rudy confessed to us), which are spreading a lot on social media and in which a person talks about an experience, a journey, a dinner, an evening with friends. And in which perhaps there are many important concepts or information to summarize. But they can’t be too many, because “otherwise they’ll tell me I’m long gone”. Which for the Shorthaired One would actually be the gravest sin.
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– 2024-03-17 11:15:05
