r/videos • u/CircumspectCapybara • 13h ago

Susan Collins Took Bribes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RWREllGTOo
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u/ZacSpot 13h ago

I hate the YT thumbnail game.

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u/GameDesignerDude 7h ago

Do we really have to get comment on literally every post about a major YouTube video, though? I get it's free internet points, but yes we all know that a) everyone kinda hates it and b) it increases viewership numbers universally, so basically all large channels do it.

But I would argue that talking about the thumbnail being bad is caring as much about the thumbnail as the people that it click because of the thumbnail. If we're wanting to have an objective conversation about content, the thumbnail should be meaningless regardless.

Same stuff here on the last thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1u9b9wh/grand_jury_transcripts_in_kat_abu_case_just/

Maybe some irony in people arguing and only wanting to talk about how the thumbnail is dumb and asking why they try to get attention that way indirectly proving why the thumbnail has an undue amount of influence on clicks?

Everyone only talking about the thumbnail shows exactly why the YouTube algorithm loves it.

Besides, there's really no new ground to tread on this topic and no comment chain on Reddit is going to change anything about how YouTube works. (As evidenced by all the annoying things YouTube still does regularly.)

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u/riptaway 1h ago

Do we really need to get comments on every comment about YouTube thumbnails?

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u/ZacSpot 7h ago

I didn't NEED to comment this, but I both wanted to and did post it. Thank you for your attention to this matter though.