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~~⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!~~

~~Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.~~

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~~If you post videos from Youtube/LTT, please please un-clickbait the titles. (You can use the title from https://nitter.net/LTTtranslator/ but it doesn't seem to have been updated in quite some while...)~~

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Look at that guy making that stupid face in the first thumbnail. I fucking hate that.

[–] Spudwart@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s for the ALGORITHM

[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You might hate it, but it’s proven to get more people to watch the video. It sucks, but that’s how they make money to make more videos.

[–] smackjack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of people don't even read video titles anymore. They just look at the thumbnail and they'll click if it catches their attention.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I read the text in the thumbnails.....

[–] Portosian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I always click "Don't recommend channel" when the thumbnail looks like this. I don't know if it has improved recommendations at all, but I certainly don't see it as often, which is nice.