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Jeff Geerling is working within the YouTube algorithm and he does post some clickbaity thumbnails. Don't let those thumbnails mislead you. geerlingguy is an a

• geerlingguy 3y ago
  He's also here on HN ;) And regarding clickbait, I wrote a bit on that topic over in the Ampere Dev Community site[1], but in summary: > I decided to focus the intro bit on ‘Could this be the next Mac Pro’? (needs to be slightly clickbaity to get people to actually click. All of us engineering types SAY that we don’t like clickbait, but for 99% of us, if you gave us the clickbait version and the non-clickbait version in your YouTube feed… we’d click the clickbait version 100% of the time [1] https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/review-of-the-ampere-developer-platform-by-jeff-geerling/277/2?u=geerlingguy https://community.amperecomputing.com/t/review-of-the-ampere...
  • ddalex 3y ago
    Dude, keep up the good work, you're an inspiration !
  • zamadatix 3y ago
    Clickbait is absolutely effective, I don't think anyone is doubting so when they say they don't like clickbait. It's in the same boat as ads. Few like ads but even fewer actually avoid ad funded content (particularly when it comes to sponsors) so ads are effective monetization.
• traverseda 3y ago
  I've used some of his ansible stuff and was very surprised when he showed up in my youtube feed.