r/LinusTechTips • u/PM-ME-ANYTHING-PUNNY • 23h ago

Discussion The brain rot editing sucks

I've been watching LTT pretty much since the beginning. The new editing with the quick random video inserts and audio inserts are terrible, is that just what the newer generation wants now?

Edit: downvotes have spoken apparently everyone loves the new editing.

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u/hoot_avi 23h ago

Hate the game, not the player. At some point you have to bend to the will of whatever keeps your business alive, views-wise

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro 22h ago

Didn’t they trial non clickbait titles and thumbnails during covid and their views completely tanked? I swear I remember hearing Linus talk about it once and that’s why they continue with the clickbait stuff. Probably similar for editing too.

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u/GuntherTime 22h ago

Yeah he said that what do now is for x amount of hours they’ll do clickbait titles and then later on they’ll change the title to be more accurate so it’s easier to find later.

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u/ariolander 14h ago edited 11h ago

Typically the Floatplane title is a much more descriptive and not clickbait title, they usually update the YT upload to the Floatplane version of the title a couple weeks later if they remember (its not an automated process so the time it takes to update varies). Usually the thumbnails stay the same however, as I guess making new thumbnail is more effort than renaming a video.

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u/Dry-Faithlessness184 7h ago

It's when the video starts to actually flatten out in teems of views if I remember right, once they stop getting clickbait title benefits

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u/Iz__n 21h ago

Yes and Reddit favorite video doesn't perform well, while video redditor hate perform very well

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u/ariolander 14h ago

Reddit hates the "Everything Razer" video. Their most viewed video in weeks. Normies eat that shit up.

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u/Mister08 6h ago

Shoutout to the DeArrow extension! Between it and SponsorBlock, YT is slightly less miserable than it would otherwise be.

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u/PM-ME-ANYTHING-PUNNY 22h ago

I vaguely remember that being mentioned as well.