Contemporary youth live in a symbiosis with short videos,and the value expression of short videos has a profound impact on the formation and development of young people's values.Short videos rewrite the traditional paradigm and promote the equality of the subject and object of value expression,and thus have a positive effect on youth value education,but at the same time,they have different degrees of negative impact on youth value education at both explicit and implicit levels.To address the value dilemma in young people's use of short videos,it is necessary to determine rational governance principles based on the actual situation of young people and the characteristics of short videos,take socialist core values as the basic content,and effec-tively avoid harmful short videos through legal constraints,technology empowerment,platform monitoring and youth self-discipline