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[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately because of the way Youtube's algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don't play the game.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Got any examples? I don't recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.

[-] squilox@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Veritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit

[-] XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you have a link to the video? I casually skimmed through his video list for the past year or so, but none of the titles jumped out at me for this.

Could also be a good example of why this extension sounds cool haha

Edit: Found it just a few more videos below here I stopped haha. "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective" https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng

[-] squilox@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that one I stopped hating clickbait so much after watching it, trying to become immune to it

[-] BuiltWithStolenParts@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

LTT and SmarterEveryDay to name two.

[-] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

All those channels in the screenshot in this post.

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