sslkfdhfg I cannot deal with video players without a progress bar, tiktok's influence is absolutely cancerous

it just seems like an absolutely horrible design that could only have come from someone staring at engagement metrics going like "ooo wow!! people watch videos for longer if there's no playback bar" or something, like, fuck, it's trashgarbage, delete this

"haha have you seen this clip? hold on"
*tilts phone away from friend and waits for 10 seconds until it loops back to the part you want to show and gets ready to hit the unmute button at the exact moment to make sure it doesn't get spoiled but also starts at the right time*

"the middle part of this song was pretty good, it really reminded me of something? lemme listen back to it again"
*refreshes page and waits 2 minutes for it to come back*