whenever i see a youtuber title what is essentially a basic game news video as "[Game Title] Situation is Crazy" I unsubscribe. stop trying to be annoying monotone drama youtuber for engagement and clout.
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Look into the browser extention dearrow. It is by the same people who made sponsorblock and it changes titles to user-submitted ones that make the title actually reflect what the video is about. [1/2]
No offense but I don’t want a plug-in to change the titles of videos around because I want to be able to see the lame clickbait titles and then not watch the video because the creator is being disingenuous with their content and not worth my time
Yeah, I’m not sure how I feel about this extension. It’s good at an individualistic level (I get to bypass the clickbait titles!), but seems bad at a collectivist level (I’m rewarding the clickbait titles without even knowing!).
Yeah, that is probably the right thing to do. I only get recommended good videos with non-clickbaity titles anyway but I find it nice to have them even more descriptive so I thought I should tell you about it regardless because you were complaining about inaccurate titles.
No, it's fine. I liked knowing this exist, and I even installed it to try. But I don't think I'll probably use it long-term. As you said, I mostly get recommended non-clickbaity videos, and I attribute this to the fact I police myself quite hard to not click them.
I feel like this was prompted by a video about Borderlands 4, mostly because Google suggested a video titled exactly that today when I went to look up the new characters' designs.
i'm kinda bothered when i see
"we need to talk about [game]...."
i think oh is there a problem with it?
but i find out they just want to promote it....and i wasted time because i already own it, that's why i clicked on it to see if i was missing something. grr
I can get past excitement if the content has substance. What really gets me is titles that tell you nothing and rely on a mystery to get you to click. At that point I assume what they were going to say wasn't worth the time and I just move on.
There's this one channel with content that I am interested in, but 9 out of 10 thumbnail-title combos are designed to be as vague as possible. LET ME KNOW WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT, DAMMIT
Also that everything has to be "The Worst", "The Best", like, can you stop calling everything "The Most"?
Does your definition of "The Best" change every third day?
He is king king of slop, his content consists of recapping drama and has directly contributed to the perpetration of serval needless harassment campaigns because his complete and utter lack of critical thinking. He is the lowest common denominator.
Idk if it's cause I'm getting older (barely mid 20s) but I've grown so tired of the internet drama and culture war stuff. It's just exhausting seeing people be fake outraged about every little thing
That's honestly just part of growing up I went through the same sort of thing in my early 20s stuff like jackass used to be funny before then and at some point it just wasn't
This. The algorithm is such that a sensational title gets them a LOT more views. If they give it a normal title, it doesn't get pushed to users as much. I know one channel that did a test... same topic. Non-sensational title got about 10k views, and sensational got 300k.
They feed their own “algorithm” and incentivize AI pushing sensationalized titles to everyone instead of collectively going back to normal titles and still watching to change the AI algorithm pushing videos to people.
Whenever I hear this, I blame both the playah and the game, but especially the person saying that. YOU, personally, are to blame for the state of YouTube. You bastard.
It's like every single title and thumbnail has to grab your attention with an iron fist. Have to have like, 3 different extensions to make it bearable.
Every time I have to go through a client that doesn't support dearrow it feels like everything on there is designed to melt my brain.
Honestly, while that word was once overused, I'm just glad when I see the word "crazy," as I feel like the word "wild" has been the go-to adjective for the last two years, and it's driving me... bananas.
Same, and I bet majority of people don't even watch those videos, they open it and immediately go to the comment section to rant about it, easy interactions for the channel while not putting much effort into the video itself
but the fence is soooooo comfy you dont understand!!
if you dont use it, the browser plugin "Dearrow" turns vague and clickbait titles into community curated summaries. doesnt stop those from existing but hey now you learned something without giving them a click lmao
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"we need to talk about [game]...."
i think oh is there a problem with it?
but i find out they just want to promote it....and i wasted time because i already own it, that's why i clicked on it to see if i was missing something. grr
There's this one channel with content that I am interested in, but 9 out of 10 thumbnail-title combos are designed to be as vague as possible. LET ME KNOW WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT, DAMMIT
Does your definition of "The Best" change every third day?
Say thing for 15 minutes
Unedited stream clip of the exact same thing being said
Obviously people wouldn't do this if it didn't work for getting more views on already existing content but still sleazy to me.
They feed their own “algorithm” and incentivize AI pushing sensationalized titles to everyone instead of collectively going back to normal titles and still watching to change the AI algorithm pushing videos to people.
Every time I have to go through a client that doesn't support dearrow it feels like everything on there is designed to melt my brain.
"This video is sponsored by [thing that is actually terrible but the youtuber has to say is good]"
if you dont use it, the browser plugin "Dearrow" turns vague and clickbait titles into community curated summaries. doesnt stop those from existing but hey now you learned something without giving them a click lmao