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That sex-doll gaping face or the fake shocked "Omg I cannot believe everything I'm seeing" face is de rigeur for YT, and I'm guessing it's because The Algorithm
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
That sex-doll gaping face or the fake shocked "Omg I cannot believe everything I'm seeing" face is de rigeur for YT, and I'm guessing it's because The Algorithm (blessed be its bytes) has determined kids click on thumbnails with incredibly exaggerated facial expressions.
It's... weird and a tad scary.
- idontwantthis 4y agoI use an extension called click bait remover that replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video. Also normalizes capitalization.
- bhhaskin 4y agoThat sounds like a great extension, but at the same time I just block those channels that engage in that. None of them make any content worth consuming.
- idontwantthis 4y agoLTT does it and they make genuinely good videos.
- astura 4y agoHow do you know if a channel has content worth consuming if you block it without watching it? Literally hundreds of good channels worth consuming have thumbnails like that. I find it off-putting too, but videos are severely punished for not having them. This is the channel mentioned in the sibling comment (Linus Tech Tips) - https://youtu.be/DzRGBAUz5mA https://youtu.be/DzRGBAUz5mA
- nullc 4y agoIf its that good I'll hear about it from someone else... though I can't say that I've seen too much on youtube that my life would be that much worse off if I'd simply gone without it.
- kajaktum 4y agoPeople need to study more why that gaping face became a trick to the algorithm. It's certainly (I hope) not functioning adults that are so easily tricked by it? I suspect a large amount of what drives the algorithm is young impressionable kids and that basically dictates the trend for the rest of us.