• helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      Unfortunately this is just the way it is on YT now. Post clickbait thumbnails, or miss out on hundreds of thousands of views. Because that’s the way YT likes it. They don’t want to positively weight long-term high-quality content, they want to promote clickbait.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        3 months ago

        If someone cares about their view count then you shouldn’t give their content your time of day

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
          71·
          3 months ago

          Quite the opposite. If they didn’t care about the view count the content wouldn’t exist in the first place. No one makes content with the intention of no one watching it, and they certainly don’t make high quality content that requires a team of people and expensive equipment.

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
            61·
            3 months ago

            They make them because it’s fun/they are passionate

            And that makes them higher quality

            • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
              5·
              3 months ago

              At a bare minimum they make them because they’re passionate about sharing with others. In which case they care about the view count. Once again, no one makes a video and uploads it to a video-sharing platform and doesn’t care who watches it.

              Having the time and money to dedicate to making high quality content makes them higher quality. If they have to work a 9-5 doing something else, and they record everything on a Galaxy S4 because they have no money, it’s bound to be lower quality or just non-existent.

              • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
                32·
                3 months ago

                You need to spend more time around small channels

                LTT is a good example of how what you’re saying is bullshit. All the money in the world but they’re still tech illiterate people making tech videos

            • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              Dude, this isn’t the Youtube of 2006 anymore.

              Content creating, whether for TV, Radio, or Internet is a job.

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.

        Do they go back and change thumbnails after a while? LTT does focus on a lot of evergreen content as well.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.

          No, that would be rewarding creators with a long history of producing high quality content.

          • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            YouTube gives a b testing for YouTubers based on watch time, so they can tune their thumbnails to the one that gets the most watch time. The audience doesn’t always know the history of the chanel, they need to go off the thumbnail.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
      92·
      3 months ago

      As part of the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins, i have to say that while i dont love thumbnails like that, i still click on the video because i know it’ll be quality

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      3 months ago

      And that’s why I have Dearrow. Bye bye bait thumbnails and titles.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1229·
      3 months ago

      You have to understand shit like these thumbsnails arent made for people like you and me.

      They are made for the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins who are incapable of rational, independent thought. The kind that run out and put sandpaper on their windshield wipers and microwave their phones to “fast recharge” them because they saw a video that said to do that.

      and the sad, terrifying reality, is these mentally stunted little goblins outnumber us by margins that are too terrifying to even think about.