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Double quote "$var".

In the shell, in commands have $variables in "quotes", otherwise the shell will get its contents and break it into words (and even try a glob-match with each word).
The echo command:
echo "$var"

That is a variation of bash's "here documents": "here strings". This contruct evaluates the expression after the <<< and presents the result on stdin of the (here: read) command.
I don't know about...

The classic approach is slow (run exiftool for each file) but safe:
total_folder_length=$(
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -iname '*.mkv' -o -iname '*.mp4' -o -iname '*.avi' \) |
while IFS= read...

That is quite confusing a script. And, what does "get a bit borked" mean? Incorrect? Slow? Crashes?

A few comments:
- you don't need an echo "command substitution" for a variable assignment in...

The GNU date command in full of goodies but not when it comes to calculate a date or time difference. Here is what I came up with after looking to more than one solution.

Code should be self...