Shortcode and Sliders

I am trying to get one of the sliders to show random posts. I thought I could make a page/post that queried 4 random posts in it and use that as the slider but it wouldn’t show the posts at all.

So I saw I could overlay a shortcode on the page instead. So I made a function of the exact same query and gave it a shortcode. I used that shortcode on an empty page and put that page into my slider. It showed the 4 random posts but it broke the slider because the content was not actually in the slide.

I was wondering how to fix this?

The function I am using is this:

function randompost_sc(){
	$random = new WP_Query (array(
		'orderby' => 'rand',
		'post_type' => array('animereviews', 'animerants', 'gamereviews', 'gamerants'),
		'posts_per_page' => 4) );

		if ($random->have_posts()) :
			while ($random->have_posts()) : $random->the_post(); ?>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(64,36)); ?></a>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
		<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
		<?php endwhile ?>
		<?php endif;
}
add_shortcode( 'randomshort', 'randompost_sc');

The result looks like this now:

https://45.55.62.181/wordpress/

Is this even doable? Thanks

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