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since it's too much to paste in here, here's 10 recent tech review videos from each of the top 10 most viewed tech youtubers: https://pastebin.com/4PZe9iTf https://pastebin.com/4PZe9iTf Here's a few of them: - Humane AI Pin Review: The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed - I Tested the World's Craziest Smartphone - Do NOT Buy These Fake Tech Products! - This Is Not a Normal Laptop... - Unboxing the $10,000 Mystery Tech Box - Don't Make This PC Building Mistake - This Desk Accessory Changes Everything - I Didn't Expect This Phone to Be This Good - I Bought a Mystery Tech Box from Amazon - Testing the Craziest Cheap Tech on Temu Jeff Geerling's videos have fine titles. Declaring that Jeff can't be a serious reviewer because he uses clickbait is kinda silly. Have you seen the state of journalism? Somehow the tabloids are frequently less clickbaity.

joshspankit 2mo ago
It also seems that YouTube is steering the ship: they could simply push content that’s straightforward and non-clickbait (and in fact: downgrade clickbait), but as Geoff says the clickbait got 2x the traffic. That’s not “the same amount of people were shown the video and 2x the people clicked in”. The algo is always skewing.
testing22321 2mo ago
Sounds like you’re trying to justify kicking dogs because everyone in the industry goes around kicking dogs. Say it ain’t so. Just because lots of people are doing something that sucks does not make it OK.
- HeWhoLurksLate 2mo ago
  It's a hook. That's been a standard part of writing for like at least a hundred years. It's not kicking dogs. Or, if it is kicking dogs, society has been doing it for at least as long as publishable media has been a thing, probably longer with the likes of bards. This is ridiculous
  - testing22321 2mo ago
    I’m a writer, I write for a few magazines and have published three books. I write hooks all the time. A good hook does not have to be clickbait. In my experience, when a person struggles to come up with a good hook, they write clickbait.

joshspankit 2mo ago

It also seems that YouTube is steering the ship: they could simply push content that’s straightforward and non-clickbait (and in fact: downgrade clickbait), but as Geoff says the clickbait got 2x the traffic. That’s not “the same amount of people were shown the video and 2x the people clicked in”. The algo is always skewing.

testing22321 2mo ago

Sounds like you’re trying to justify kicking dogs because everyone in the industry goes around kicking dogs. Say it ain’t so. Just because lots of people are doing something that sucks does not make it OK.

HeWhoLurksLate 2mo ago
It's a hook. That's been a standard part of writing for like at least a hundred years. It's not kicking dogs. Or, if it is kicking dogs, society has been doing it for at least as long as publishable media has been a thing, probably longer with the likes of bards. This is ridiculous
- testing22321 2mo ago
  I’m a writer, I write for a few magazines and have published three books. I write hooks all the time. A good hook does not have to be clickbait. In my experience, when a person struggles to come up with a good hook, they write clickbait.