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I hate that useless “nobody:” Glad it went out of style. If nobody said nothing, then everybody said something. The still useless but correct way would be “everybody:”
It’s a shorthand for “nobody asked for this but [person/group] do it anyway:”
This tactic probably worked the first ten times it was done … but it’s completely useless now
Every time I see this kind of thumbnail, I actively avoid the video, channel and the creator
I have ascended to a higher level of old-man-yells-at-cloud and just don’t watch youtube*. I’d rather just read words. It’s really depressing how illiterate many people seem to be.
*with the exception of like music videos and the occasional “this is how you do this weird thing in a video game”
I watch short form videos on mute
I find it regulates me from continuously watching hours of junk.
When you start seeing it all without sound, you start realizing how mundane and meaningless it all is.
Same, but they can A/B test thumbnails, so clearly it leads to more engagement.
I like that its become an easy filter for dumbed down content, so I save myself some time
I really, really hate “YouTube face”, it’s so annoying. Maybe it’s overkill, but I actively avoid the videos and channels where they use it. Oh, your clickbait thumbnail is more important than the content? Guess I’ll check out other sources then…
Seems they all have to do it or the algo will punish you.
Fucking disaster.
No they don’t. There are plenty who don’t.
The extension DeArrow gets rid of the annoying thumbnails and titles
The problem I have with that is that it probably means I’ll end up unknowingly rewarding the clickbaiters/blanking the more thoughtful creators who deserved the view. Somewhere, somebody in the world will think I deliberately clicked on a dumb thumbnail and that’s too great a burden to bear.
