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YouTube is cracking down on clickbait
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*Only directly misleading clickbait. So they'll continue to promote other forms of clickbait like specific thumbnails or capitalized & ambiguous titles.
Of course they will, The Holy Algorithm loves that stuff. It’s why even some respectable creators have to stoop to that frustrating nonsense.
They don't have to, they choose to. There's still people like Etho who don't even ask for people to sub and post incredibly infrequently and still successfully maintain their views and audience simply through quality content. It's more a matter of whether you do YT for yourself, or for the money. And nowadays the majority of people do it for the money. That's why the content has become so piss poor over the years too. It's all just commercialized garbage.
One of the greatest channels on YouTube, in terms of quality content, is Mentour Pilot (and his other channel, Mentour Now). He releases videos weekly, I think. They’re remarkably high production value, well-researched, well-written, informative, and fascinating.
His thumbnails and many of his titles are awful. Clickbait, capitalization, arrows pointing at stuff, etc.
There are of course people who do the clickbait stuff and make terrible content.
There are people who don’t do the clickbait stuff, some of whom make good content and some who make terrible content.
Whether you try to get as much value from the platform as you can doesn’t indicate the quality of your work. Some people play the game, some don’t.
And I block everyone who does, since I have no way of judging the content other than the low quality titles & thumbnails. I'm dubious about allegedly well researched content though. Lot's of people for example recommend Perun, or Kurzgesagt too, which are both awful.
That’s fair. If you have even the slightest appreciation for aviation, I really do recommend Mentour Pilot. His video recently about the LionAir 737-MAX8 crash was phenomenal, and a perfect example. Extremely clickbait-y title and thumbnail, but a rock-solid hour-long dive into the final report, including details of the preceding flights.
I don't, not that much anyway. But I'm even more allergic to clickbait than I am to ads, and I run ad blockers since their invention. If I ever click on a clickbait video I feel dirty and soon after even more determined to block those channels. So I quite literally just can't.
Frankly, the people doing the former should be leaving Youtube for Peertube. I feel like Fediverse advocates ought to be trying to figure out ways to court them.