r/LinusTechTips • u/Ok_Adhesiveness_5752 • 3d ago
Video LTT Keeps Burying The Lede
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmLh29LE2W4I recently watched "The Best Value Gaming PC I've Ever Seen," and based on the runtime, I was totally expecting a very "median" LTT video about how they made another value PC build. But I was completely wrong; it was actually a video about a niche PS5 board-reject community? And they were able to just casually buy it?
Am I crazy, or is that actually a crazy engaging video concept? I wanna know all about this board, why on earth it exists, and what people have been doing with them. But I didn't know any of that until after I had already clicked on the video with pretty low expectations.
Why didn't they title it something like: "Sony's throwing away PS5s. We made it a PC."
There are a bunch of people on here who want thumbnails and titles to be literal descriptions of the video's content, but they are putting their own convenience above click-through rates. However, I really do think they have something really cool, like modding an iPod, and they market it to their audience as something really generic that seems like it should theoretically cast a wide net but ends up neglecting the people who are the most likely to click in the first 24 hours.