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[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 89 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Well that's a thumbnail I'd never click on

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Their video about thumbnail A/B testing was quite interesting to see. Considering how they have dedicated designers to make these thumbnails I guess that works pretty well, despite your personal opinion on it, with which I agree too.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

As part of the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins, i have to say that while i dont love thumbnails like that, i still click on the video because i know it'll be quality

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that's why I have Dearrow. Bye bye bait thumbnails and titles.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Problem is that these people still get views then

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

People start yt channels for a lot of reason and probably the biggest reason is money. I don't really understand your fixation over yt channels only being passion project.

[–] thethirdobject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

i understand even less when people are saying that when someone does something out of passion it should allow us to consume it for free

[–] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Especially with some channels being financially successful labors of love like Red Letter Media.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All of their thumbnails are unfortunately click-baity. They spoke about ut in an older video. Apparently, the click-baity images drive too much traffic for them to justify something more subtle.

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Oh, no I totally get it. I'm well aware I'm in the tiny minority that are put off by them. It's just the kind of illusion that once it gets broken you can no longer unsee it.

It's the same with clickbait headlines. If it's a question, the answer is no.

"Is this the end of Russia?"

No.

keeps on scrolling

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a Firefox plugin that replaces YT thumbnails with stills from the video. It makes browsing YT so much better.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why does this and maybe something to replace the title with just an accurate thesis statement kind of titlesounds so good to me!

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Dearrow does both.

[–] mage@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what the shit is going on with that neon ass hair

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They let Luke bleach it on the wan show.

He's never done it before, and took too long so some parts are ultra blonde and others are barely different.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Doesn't matter how good the video is if nobody clicks on it, Veritasium already made a great one about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

[–] sverit@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

/r/punchablefaces material