YouTubeCreator
A Short with a dislike count
The one thing no other vertical player draws. Subscribe on the creator row and the red scrubber underneath.
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Fake YouTube Shorts & Short mockup generator
Build a full YouTube Short — the like and dislike pair no other vertical player has, the Subscribe button on the channel row, remix at the foot of the rail and the red scrubber underneath. Counts are typed as real numbers, and a dislike count of zero is hidden exactly as YouTube hides it.
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YouTubeCreator
A Short with dislikes hidden
At zero, YouTube draws the thumb with no number at all. The default state of almost every Short, and the reason the count is not simply always shown.
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A how-to Short
A subscribed channel and a caption that runs past two lines, so the clamp and its “more” are both visible.
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Start from an example
The three above are the ones people make: a Short with a real dislike count, one with dislikes hidden at zero, and a how-to with a caption long enough to clamp.
Pick the frame
An image from the library or your own. Leave it empty and the rail and caption still draw over a neutral field.
Set the channel
Photo, handle, the verified tick, and whether the button reads Subscribe or Subscribed.
Write the caption
It clamps at two lines with a more, exactly as the app does. Line breaks are kept.
Type the numbers
Likes, dislikes, comments and shares. Leave dislikes at zero to draw the hidden state.
Export
PNG at 1× free and up to 3× on Pro, on a 9:16 canvas by default, device frame optional.
How the YouTube interface is put together
Our YouTube skin is rebuilt from the real interface in code rather than traced from a screenshot, so the details that make it recognisable survive at export resolution. Here is what those details actually are.
The dislike is the whole tell
A Short is the only vertical player that draws one. Like and dislike sit as a PAIR at the top of the rail, thumbs up over thumbs down, before the comment icon. Neither TikTok nor Instagram has anything equivalent, so this one control identifies the screenshot instantly.
At zero, the count disappears
YouTube draws the thumb with no number under it rather than a 0 — and zero is the state of almost every Short. Getting this wrong is subtle and constant: a 0 under a thumbs-down is a screen YouTube does not have. One of the examples above exists to show the hidden state.
Subscribe, not Follow
A filled pill on the creator row that reads Subscribe, and turns into a quieter Subscribed once you are. Instagram uses an outlined Follow chip and TikTok a red plus on the avatar; all three hide a different thing behind the same idea.
The scrubber is red
Both other players draw a white progress bar. This one line at the foot of the screen carries more recognition than any icon above it, and it is the detail most mockups leave grey.
Remix closes the rail
Where Instagram has ••• and TikTok has a spinning disc, a Short has a remix control — the two-panel glyph — above the sound tile. It has no count, because it is an action rather than a metric.
The audio row names the channel
A Short's sound is usually its own, so the row under the caption reads as the channel rather than as a song. That is why the seeds name the channel there instead of inventing a track.
What people use YouTube mockups for
- Creator and agency pitch decks
- Thumbnails and concepts before anything is filmed
- Announcing a view milestone
- Media-literacy teaching about engagement patterns
- App and UI design portfolios
- Film, TV and theatre props
Questions about YouTube mockups
- Can I upload a video?
- No — the frame is a still image, from the library or your own upload. A screenshot of a Short is a still, and storing and transcoding video to show one frame would buy nothing. The video export animates our own scenes; it does not play the clip you mocked.
- Why does my dislike count not appear?
- Because it is zero, and YouTube hides it there. Set any number above zero and it draws under the thumb. That is the app's own behaviour rather than a limitation here.
- Is there a saves count?
- No — a Short has no save-to-collection control on the player, so the field is not offered. TikTok has one and Instagram has one; each player only offers the counts it actually draws.
- How is this different from the YouTube comment generator?
- That one draws a comment thread, with pinned and creator-hearted states. This is the Shorts player — rail, creator row, caption and the red scrubber — full screen.
- Do I type 74.3K or 74300?
- 74300. Type the real number and it is abbreviated on render, which is also why switching to a Reel or a TikTok keeps your counts instead of asking you to retype them.
- Why does it export at 9:16?
- Because a Short is going somewhere vertical. The Video format opens on a 9:16 canvas so the export is the shape it will be posted at. You can change it in the Export section, and no other format was affected.
- Can I make a Short for a real channel?
- No, and our terms prohibit it. Inventing view counts on somebody's real channel is impersonation. Parody, teaching, fiction and design work are fine — every example on this page uses fictional channels.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to YouTube and cannot read, send or alter a real message. Do not use a mockup to impersonate anyone, pass it off as a genuine screenshot, or present it as evidence in any legal, workplace or academic matter — see our Acceptable Use policy. For general information about legal risk, read is it legal to fake a screenshot? If you publish somewhere a viewer might mistake it for real, switch on the “Simulated” label before exporting.
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