YouTube confirmed on Wednesday that its collaborative “Add Yours” stickers for YouTube Shorts are now fully available. The Google-owned company first announced the feature in July.
The stickers work just like Instagram’s feature of the same name, prompting users to share their views on a creator’s video. The “Add Yours” feature on both platforms takes a page out of TikTok’s book, as it’s somewhat similar to the short-form video app’s “duet” tool, which allows users to create content featuring original videos.
With the new Shorts feature, you can create a chain reaction of adorable content by posting a Short of your dog and adding stickers to encourage others to share videos of their own pups. Or, you can post an “Outfit of the Day” Short and then encourage others to share videos of their own pups via stickers.
Once you're done recording your video, you can tap the sticker icon, choose the “Add Yours” sticker, and then type in your prompt. Once your Short is live, viewers can respond with their own Short or tap the sticker to see other responses.
These stickers were announced as part of a new suite of features for creators, including the ability to automatically convert long videos into Shorts and create auto-generated captions that can be edited and customized with a variety of fonts and colors.
