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Sponsorblock was already mentioned, but also have a look at what DeArrow does, which is allow crowdsourced titles and title cards to remove the horrible ":O" fa

Sponsorblock was already mentioned, but also have a look at what DeArrow does, which is allow crowdsourced titles and title cards to remove the horrible ":O" face clickbait.

rchaud 3y ago
There's already an extension that does that: Clickbait remover for YT (FF/Chrome) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
- echelon 3y ago
  One day we'll use AI to replace ads with anti-marketing. Ads for McDonalds replaced with obesity stats. Ads for goods rephrased to make the actors say, "you don't need it."
  - hanselot 3y ago
    Why would watching that add any value to the lives of anybody consuming that content? Why not just remove it entirely? The only people that would use it are the same people that already know those stats.
  - tetris11 3y ago
    And one day they will use AI to place more covert ads.
    - intelVISA 3y ago
      'One day'...
Liquix 3y ago
thanks! the thumbnail trend has gotten really, really bad. any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon? is there data they have access to which suggests switching to this type of thumbnail will increase engagement?
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  > any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon It probably works.
- deleted 3y ago
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- Onawa 3y ago
  If I remember correctly, Linus from Linus Tech Tips said begrudgingly at one point that the clickbait thumbnails increase views by 20-30%. Even he wasn't happy about having to do them, but the drop in viewership from not doing them seemed quite large and hard to disagree with.
  - wkat4242 3y ago
    LTT is pretty much the most clickbaity YouTuber anyway when it comes to IT. Mediocre content, extremely high monetisation including in-stream ads. I never bother watching LTT anyway. It represents everything that's wrong with YouTube. When it comes to creators I actually respect I'd think of Dave Jones (EEVBlog), Naomi Wu, Louis Rossman...
    - hsbauauvhabzb 3y ago
      Hard disagree, at least on some content. The engineering videos where they do crazy hacks like negative cooling computers, swimming pool water cooling etc are all insightful and inviting viewers to explore hardware hacking and engineering. I suspect techlinked troll HN for news content, but I watch that for the humour rather than news.
      - tanjtanjtanj 3y ago
        I think you can both be right. They put out a "crazy engineering" video maybe once every 6 months while putting out 5+ videos every single week. The majority of the videos being uploaded are them faking enthusiasm for version i+1 of whatever product giant tech company put out this week or them trashing some silly or sometimes misunderstood idea.

Sponsorblock was already mentioned, but also have a look at what DeArrow does, which is allow crowdsourced titles and title cards to remove the horrible ":O" face clickbait.

rchaud 3y ago

There's already an extension that does that: Clickbait remover for YT (FF/Chrome) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clickbait-remover-for-youtube/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...

echelon 3y ago
One day we'll use AI to replace ads with anti-marketing. Ads for McDonalds replaced with obesity stats. Ads for goods rephrased to make the actors say, "you don't need it."
- hanselot 3y ago
  Why would watching that add any value to the lives of anybody consuming that content? Why not just remove it entirely? The only people that would use it are the same people that already know those stats.
- tetris11 3y ago
  And one day they will use AI to place more covert ads.
  - intelVISA 3y ago
    'One day'...

Liquix 3y ago

thanks! the thumbnail trend has gotten really, really bad. any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon? is there data they have access to which suggests switching to this type of thumbnail will increase engagement?

SoftTalker 3y ago
> any insight into why creators are hopping on the bandwagon It probably works.
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Onawa 3y ago
If I remember correctly, Linus from Linus Tech Tips said begrudgingly at one point that the clickbait thumbnails increase views by 20-30%. Even he wasn't happy about having to do them, but the drop in viewership from not doing them seemed quite large and hard to disagree with.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  LTT is pretty much the most clickbaity YouTuber anyway when it comes to IT. Mediocre content, extremely high monetisation including in-stream ads. I never bother watching LTT anyway. It represents everything that's wrong with YouTube. When it comes to creators I actually respect I'd think of Dave Jones (EEVBlog), Naomi Wu, Louis Rossman...
  - hsbauauvhabzb 3y ago
    Hard disagree, at least on some content. The engineering videos where they do crazy hacks like negative cooling computers, swimming pool water cooling etc are all insightful and inviting viewers to explore hardware hacking and engineering. I suspect techlinked troll HN for news content, but I watch that for the humour rather than news.
    - tanjtanjtanj 3y ago
      I think you can both be right. They put out a "crazy engineering" video maybe once every 6 months while putting out 5+ videos every single week. The majority of the videos being uploaded are them faking enthusiasm for version i+1 of whatever product giant tech company put out this week or them trashing some silly or sometimes misunderstood idea.