• Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Unfortunately because of the way Youtube’s algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don’t play the game.

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Got any examples? I don’t recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.

        • squilox@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Veritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit

          • XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Do you have a link to the video? I casually skimmed through his video list for the past year or so, but none of the titles jumped out at me for this.

            Could also be a good example of why this extension sounds cool haha

            Edit: Found it just a few more videos below here I stopped haha. “Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective” https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng

            • squilox@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 years ago

              Yeah, that one I stopped hating clickbait so much after watching it, trying to become immune to it