• @const_void@lemmy.ml
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    311 year ago

    Agreed. Most Youtube thumbnails are cancer. Bug eyes with mouth wide open or pointing at something. Enough already.

    • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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      251 year ago

      Tom Scott did an episode where he explained that going back and retrofitting old videos with the shock face and click bait titles upped his views by a lot

      • @Auli@lemmy.ca
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        201 year ago

        And that is what nobody cares to admit. They do those thumbnails cause they work.

        • @perishthethought@lemm.ee
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          111 year ago

          Great for Tom Scott and everyone one using this (sincerely) and everyone attracted to videos with images like this.

          I am still out.

    • @30p87@feddit.de
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      And around 70% of titles are replaced by DeArrow for me, and of the other 30% around 80% are probably just too unknown. So in total just 6% are actually not clickbait, and those 6% are basically just dashcam channels with the numbering as title, the largest german channel about Lego-style bricks and media.ccc.de