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Post by Roberto on Sept 30, 2018 14:05:02 GMT
For example, so often I will see a blatant clickbaity video title/thumbnail on YouTube and see that it has millions upon millions of views and I just cringe at the stupidity of humanity. It truly makes me sad that something that used to be so hated is now deemed acceptable and apart of daily life on the internet. All these thumbnails are just pathetic, yet the idiots just eat it all up. Why is that? For example here is one currently "Trending" on the main page: The title reads "Stunt Jumps Through Impossible Shapes!!"  To me, this shit does not scream "must click". I want to know what goes on in the minds of morons that they see something like this and feel they need to watch it. It truly baffles me. Anyone have any idea? Guess how many views for this piece of filth too? 2.5M in 1 day. And of course it's over 10 minutes long, because apparently that gives them more ad revenue. It really pains me sometimes to be part of this pathetic species. |
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Post by deembastille on Sept 30, 2018 14:24:37 GMT
Clickbait is only clickbait if you view the entire vid and don't come across the thumbnail that the vid advertised. there is no way to tell otherwise, other than the comments below chastising the poster for the clickbait.
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Post by Roberto on Sept 30, 2018 14:36:55 GMT
Clickbait is only clickbait if you view the entire vid and don't come across the thumbnail that the vid advertised. there is no way to tell otherwise, other than the comments below chastising the poster for the clickbait. No, that was originally the case, back in the earlier days of YouTube. While I'm sure some clickbait of that kind of still created, it's not the kind I'm referring to. These days, clickbait is very obviously transparent that you can tell what is clickbait without even needing to watch it. Many of them follow the same formula. Seriously go look on YouTube and see how many thumbnails there are with red arrows. Now look at how many them are just slightly over 10 minutes. (they drag them out with filler just to reach the 10 minute mark) Some other telling signs of clickbait are upper case video titles, keywords like "You Won't Believe X" or "X reasons why X is the best/worst X" and thumbnails with ridiculous Kevin McCallister style  faces of the douchebag YouTubers. A good way to avoid shitbait is to find videos that don't have artificial photoshopped thumbnails, but instead have thumbnails that are simply an automated screengrab of like the middle part of the video, just like it was back in the old days of YouTube. Those are the videos you should watch. |
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Post by Roberto on Sept 30, 2018 14:43:06 GMT
Even anthonyrocks has adopted the clickbait title style for his threads. I guess that explains what kind of people watch those videos. They taught him well.  He should go work for "Looper"  |
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Post by deembastille on Sept 30, 2018 15:33:48 GMT
Even anthonyrocks has adopted the clickbait title style for his threads. I guess that explains what kind of people watch those videos. They taught him well. He should go work for "Looper" you forgot the QUESTION: bs he always does. |
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Post by deembastille on Sept 30, 2018 15:38:39 GMT
id rather those MOST SATISFYING VIDEOS having clickbait than those LIFE HACKS vids.
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Post by Roberto on Sept 30, 2018 15:39:08 GMT
I can honestly say I am not the least bit tempted to watch that idiot jump through anything unless his jump ends in a vat of boiling oil. Glad to hear! What are your thoughts on clickbait becoming so tolerated though? |
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 30, 2018 20:09:00 GMT
I think those people on YouTube where the thumbnail of their video does not represent the video at all should face penalties on their accounts.
but with that said... it does make you wonder how some stuff on YouTube gets so many views when a lot of junk on there ain't worth viewing. but I don't often view too much stuff on YouTube in general so I am mostly fine but I have stumbled into this stuff here and there.
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Post by Harmless elf on Sept 30, 2018 23:14:34 GMT
How about putting the word challenge in the title of your video? the word challenge has been a word used just to generate views.
anyway you can always report a video that is clickbait and if enough people report it will get taken down. you say there should be repercussions but I think if you get reported enough your account can get taken down just like IMDb.
So if it bothers you you can do something about it by flagging it. I did read that if a video has a misleading thumbnail it can get taken down and apparently there will be strikes against the uploader.
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Post by deembastille on Sept 30, 2018 23:33:29 GMT
I think those people on YouTube where the thumbnail of their video does not represent the video at all should face penalties on their accounts. but with that said... it does make you wonder how some stuff on YouTube gets so many views when a lot of junk on there ain't worth viewing. but I don't often view too much stuff on YouTube in general so I am mostly fine but I have stumbled into this stuff here and there. For the most part we can't tell if we've seen it or not until we see it. It sucks when the five minute hacks or some life hacks channel keeps on reiterating the same hacks over and over again. Or when the narrator just drones on and on WITH the text written in the background. Why are you speaking if you wrote it anyway??? |
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Oct 1, 2018 12:10:40 GMT
The Untold Truth of Why IMDB Shut Down its Message Boards! (Number 7 Will Shock You!)
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Post by deembastille on Oct 1, 2018 13:35:07 GMT
The Untold Truth of Why IMDB Shut Down its Message Boards! (Number 7 Will Shock You!) Lemme guess... The absent admins who let ahole after ahole create multiple sock accounts and post other posters personal information (not talking favorite colors here) and all the admins could do was to close those accounts??? No legal action against the socktards. |
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Post by mrellaguru on Oct 1, 2018 13:53:34 GMT
Clickbait Youtube thumbnails piss me off. There's a video about dead celebrities that has Urkel in the thumbnail and he's still very much alive.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Oct 1, 2018 18:40:21 GMT
Because it doesn't seem to be going away. In fact it seems to be increasing.
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Post by Stammerhead on Oct 1, 2018 18:56:40 GMT
Because clickbait has DESTROYED us.  |
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Post by Roberto on Oct 7, 2018 12:02:21 GMT
I think those people on YouTube where the thumbnail of their video does not represent the video at all should face penalties on their accounts. Well, yes, perhaps. But maybe I did not make it clear enough in my OP. I am not criticizing the fact that people are getting fooled into watching something that was falsely advertised, but rather that why they are okay with the terrible quality of the videos. The videos may not be misrepresented at all. Perhaps with that video I mentioned in my OP, the douchebag really did jump through random shapes or whatever. But even if it's an exact representation of what the video contains, the thumbnail and title is still clickbait nonetheless, due to clickbaity tactics used in the image and words designed to get as many clicks as possible. Huge red arrows make people click and I want to know why. Yes, YouTube is filled with garbage and it's getting worse. I really miss the early days of YouTube. You can still find good content on there but you really got to do some digging, because of course YouTube give the clickbait crap priority in the search results, because they too make money off these talentless assholes. |
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Post by Roberto on Oct 7, 2018 12:06:31 GMT
How about putting the word challenge in the title of your video? the word challenge has been a word used just to generate views. Yeah, exactly or for those shitty prank videos, "GONE WRONG" and "GONE SEXUAL". Perhaps I did not make it clear in my OP. I'm not complaining about being clickbaited. I don't fall for this crap. What I'm talking about is why other people are and don't care, and why they will like the video anyway, and how this style of titles/thumbnails is now treated as normal. I doubt flagging them will do anything because they are literally everywhere. Both the morons who make them and YouTube both make money off of it, I assume. So they'd have no reason to take them down. |
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Post by Roberto on Oct 7, 2018 12:09:44 GMT
Clickbait Youtube thumbnails piss me off. There's a video about dead celebrities that has Urkel in the thumbnail and he's still very much alive. That's messed up. Have you seen the [not on YouTube] ZergNet one about dead celebrities that has Liv Tyler on the thumbnail? Also very much alive. The only reason I saw that was because I was on my tablet at the time which does not have adblocker. I really need to finally find the time to "root" my tablet so I can use adblocker. |
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Post by Roberto on Oct 7, 2018 12:11:20 GMT
Because it doesn't seem to be going away. In fact it seems to be increasing. I know, it's scary. I guess it's the mentality people have these days. "Oh we can't do anything about it so we may as well embrace it", no you morons, you don't have to embrace shit. |
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Post by Roberto on Oct 12, 2018 3:36:35 GMT
Because clickbait has DESTROYED us. It's destroying people's brains. |
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faces of the douchebag YouTubers.
He should go work for "Looper" 
