It’s so stupid.
Would you like it to be stupider?
Beast looks so fucking psychotic to me. Like, there’s something really unsettling about him, even when it’s not these stupid AI enhanced thumbnails. I wonder what percentage of the populace cannot see this? I feel like he’s going to be discovered as a murderer or have a dungeon with a bunch of people tied up one day.
i feel this way about the vast majority of capitalist slop, it’s genuinely profoundly unnerving and the idea that normal people see it and actively think it’s appealing makes me fucking terrified, it makes them feel like skinwalkers who’ll have The Thing sprout of out their flesh one day
Hard agree. Mr Beast has always given me the creeps.
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That face
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“YOU COMPLETELY MISSED THIS!”
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This fucker:
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I don’t watch any video that does this, and click ‘don’t recommend channel’. Fuck em
May I recommend DeArrow by the same devs as SponsorBlock? It replaces clickbait thumbnails with either one chosen by the community or a screenshot from the middle of the video. It also replaces clickbait titles with more neutral and descriptive ones picked by the community.
i dont personally need it but somebody probably will.
I would want something similar if it stopped creators from changing thumbnails and video titles on the user-end every couple of weeks. That bothers me more than the youtube face.
That’s a YouTube thing, actually. Creators can give a video multiple titles and thumbnails and YouTube will automatically A/B test them to see which gets more clicks. If the video randomly switched, either you swapped tests (happens all the time with multiple devices) or the uploader picked a more successful (read: clickbaity) alternative.
You can check for this by adding a video to the top of a playlist. The playlist header always uses the true thumbnail of the first video, so it’ll be different from the thumbnail in the video list if you’re not in the A group.
ohhh, somebody had said it was a meta technique for creators to boost their views. I probably misunderstood them
It’s both. The dumb faces and titles are unfortunately extremely effective at getting random clicks. The A/B testing is to find the more effective of a few options, which again will almost always be the worst sort of engagement bait.
i always find this funny because i’ve noticed myself only clicking on videos once someone changes the thumbnail in dearrow, most clickbait thumbnails and titles are literally less interesting to me than a dry description of what the video is about
you’d think youtube could use the ability to show different thumbnails to different people so i’m not shown things that clearly actively makes some people not click on videos, but of course they are incapable of considering anything but appealing to the majority…
Give them time. Eventually enough of their engineers with integrity will leave the company, and micro-targeting users to maximize engagement will be on the table. They’re solidly in the “growth at any cost” mindset.
Is that why videos change titles on NewPipe?
Probably, if you don’t have a user session and are anonymously querying the metadata each time.
I hate it, too, but I can’t fault them for doing it because it gets them views. It’s people in general’s fault for being more likely to click.
