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I just refuse to watch any YT video where they make a face like this in the splash image.
OP, if this video is yours, sorry, but not very.
Agreed. Most Youtube thumbnails are cancer. Bug eyes with mouth wide open or pointing at something. Enough already.
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
And that is what nobody cares to admit. They do those thumbnails cause they work.
Great for Tom Scott and everyone one using this (sincerely) and everyone attracted to videos with images like this.
I am still out.
Good for you? I guess.
I do not really like them either but I am not sure what point you are making. Their point is that these images result in more viewers, even accounting for your absence. What are we meant to do with the information that you are out?
They probably just wanted to voice their opinion
And they explained why this opinion is kind of silly.
"I will not listen to anything this person has to say, because I don't like a small and inconsequential part of their presentation" is not a great opinion to begin with, even ignoring the fact that this presentation might be necessary to reach a meaningful audience.
Sometimes people just don't like something. It doesn't have to be logical
@Auli @BossDj Isn't it logical ?
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
De-arrow is a godsend for these thumbnails.
That being said, I set a "Don't recommend channel" on Brodie Robertson because he took part in harassing a developer about some barely nsfw furry art being hidden in some software but refuses to block Nazis from his mastodon profile. It seemed like a double standard that demonstrated tolerance for said Nazis.
Fuck Nazis. Raw. With a rusty iron cactus. Dry. In the ass.
If that's what gets you going :s
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Can you elaborate on what software and developer? That's funny af. Harassing someone for it is really stupid
Its trickier to piece together what happened now but if you search "thorium browser furry", you'll probably find a few posts about it. There was a hell of a lot of misinfo including about it being CP for some reason when iirc it was just an anthropomorphic dog with the camera facing upwards towards them wearing panties or something like that.
So I did some digging, and it actually goes a little deeper than just a furry image. There was some anti-circumcision stuff on the developers site it seems, not in the browser itself. Apparently they weren't even linked. They were all removed with a single commit. I took a look on the commit history, and there were some pictures of circumcised penises. Including some extremely botched ones, some belonging to babies. I didn't take a look at all of them, but once I did are hardly labelable as CP. If anything, they're educational content. Wikipedia contains some similar pictures as well, you can't label Wikipedia as a CP website for those either, can you? They were running a campaign against circumcision, as one should. It's unethical genital mutilation (speaking as someone who was circumcised). Labeling this anti-circumcision stuff as CP is really stupid imo. Fuck circumcision. And imo harassing someone for this is even worse than sneaking a furry pic in a browser.
You can take a look into the commit here if you want too
Agreed. Circumcision is fucked up.
~~Circumcision~~ Genital mutilation
Fixed that for you
This tells me enough about a person to dissociate completely from anything they say or make.
That techlore guy just confused furry art with CSAM and dropped that in a video as if it was nothing.
Chris Titus did a really stupid video about that too.
I dont remember Brodie actively harassing them. But of course that whole thing was not nice.
Chris Titus convinced Brodie not to make a video on it after Brodie took an active role and Chrisb took a passive role in the dogpile on Twitter.
Just installed that extension in Firefox and instantly recognized the difference. Thanks so much!
What does "block nazis on his profile" mean, like block comments?
He has a great content though. Some of his takes are a bit strange, but he didnt cross the line yet for me.
@CatTrickery @perishthethought do you have any proof of what you assert ?
Whoa - Hey, I am not asserting anything here about the vlogger. I just don't like the image they used for the video. I don't know anything about this channel.
@perishthethought sorry for mentioning you too 🙇
I was answering to @CatTrickery regarding his message asserting that Brodie “harassed people but did not block nazis” (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6985902)
All good. Just making sure that's clear. Cheers,
I'm subscribed to his channel for years and in my opinion its the best Linux content on YouTube. And its the first time I see this face as a thumbnail, but to be honest, the had a few strange ones too. If I were not subscribed to his channel and would not know that he makes good content, then I would probably come to the same conclusion to not watch the video based off the thumbnail. I sometimes refuse to click a video based on the title too!
But I don't know what it is, but this content from him is the worst in years (in my opinion)! So the thumbnail fits nicely and you don't need to see it anyway. It's not worth watching it. But I'm serious when I say that you should check out his other videos, if you look for Linux content. He does often amazing job of history stuff too, and content that others don't report on.
yt creators really don't have a choice, if they deviate from the stuff that the algorithm likes it kills the channel
Don’t only blame the algorithm. The users are to blame as well. People tend to click on these thumbnails more. It’s a clickbait technique and it works.
I like Brodie and click on every video lol, the thumbnails are funny
There are successful channels which don't do this.
I can't blame a creator for doing this, but I do lose a lot of respect for them when they do.
Check out Technology Connections. Very successful channel. Not a single clickbaity face in sight. It has the bold text, sure, but it mostly describes the actual video.
I think you missed the critical word "deviate" if you stick to the same thing it works, whatever it is
I do the same. I don't care if there is an algorithm or not, I don't care if you get 0,00001% more money. The end doesn't justify the means. I am on a personal vendetta, every time I am on YT and I see a thumbnail like that or one with clickbait text or arrows. It's instant don't recommend channel. I don't care if I am subbed to that channel or not. Stop finding excuses, we need a gram of human decency, stop whoring yourself like that