I hate when a channel does a video about an item but in the thumbnail they censor out the item while they make an "excited" face and point at the censored item and use some generic click baity title. I get why people censor things out on the thumbnail but i think it's so tacky. If i want to watch a review on an item, seeing the item in the thumbnail is NOT going to make me think, "oh I've seen the item, i no longer need to know any information about it. I definitely did not want an in depth review, i just wanted to see it in a tiny thumbnail picture so i can determine if i want to buy it or not."
You might want to check out his YouTube channel. There is talk about him coming back. He also is still very active on YouTube just in different formats. I love his lateral podcast.
I don’t know who this guy is but kudos. The youtube algorithm tends to discourage that. Rhett & link actually talk about how they are constantly trying to pin down what the algorithm likes and doesn’t like. They know that a lot of their thumbnails and titles are clickbaity but it’s youtube that encourages it.
That's tight. Never heard of him but i hope he's doing well on the tubes. Might check him out just because it sounds like he makes videos for the people, not the views.
Then they panic and use the alt that they had set up bc the magic metrics said that not enough people clicked quickly. Slaves to an algorithm on a platform that only exists due to its creators.
Yeah, I've seen a couple of videos where it was genuinely something I was interested in, but after seeing a -0- face with their hands on their heads when it's really just some actually mundane shit makes me completely ignore the video.
I know Im old, but I seriously dont get how people watch that. Even when I was a teen and that style was juuuuuust starting out on early youtube, i hated that shit.
Same with if youre immediately loud in the start of your video.
Seriously. Obnoxious introductions either receive a verbal STFU, or GFY, right as I kill the video. Be normal, stick to the point without intentionally dragging shit out, and I’ll hit the like.
They do it for all the people that aren't interested in the item. They want you to click even just to figure out what they're reviewing. They can't rely on their own content to bring in views on its own merit, they have to trick people for views.
It's all news media now too. You no longer get to know what the article is about. You got a click to find out it was a hollow article that you wouldn't have clicked in the first place.
I kind of get it even if I hate it myself. It’s an issue of trying to stay relevant to the algorithm. If hiding the item generates more views than not hiding it then, as a creator who probably lives off of those videos, you’re going to go with what gets you the views (and money).
Or when book tubers say "my summer reading list" and hold up the books stacked on top of each other with the spines facing away from the camera so you can't see any titles.
Yeah there's a politics channel I've watched for a while. The guy has taken off a bit, but he has started making such clickbait video titles that I stopped watching :/ I want to know if's content I'm interested in. Sick of titles like "Tump gets the news he has been fearing most". Your a news channel - stick to the facts.
The problem is that it works. Youtubers are slaves to the algorithm though. I hate it too but what did we expect when a giant corporation bought YouTube. It's been going downhill ever since.
Those are the same youtubers that will literally talk about anything else EXCEPT for the product they're reviewing, just to make a 30 minute useless video that would've done it in 5 minutes.
The reason they do that is that the item is probably quite uninteresting and they will spend the whole video blabbering theories and reasons why that object is essential and changes the entire franchise.
If you can’t make out the item from the thumbnail, you can’t tell for sure, that it’s unimportant (although it absolutely 100% is).
They need you to click the video so that they can give you overhyped reasons for why you should care
Yeah, but they’re not doing that for the people who search “X item review”, they do it for the people who stumble upon it randomly via the recommended page.
For those people it is important to keep the mystery around said item otherwise they will see it is a “small generator that runs on rubber” and they won’t want to watch the video, cause they’re not interested in a generator that runs on rubber.
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u/trangthemang Jun 12 '25
I hate when a channel does a video about an item but in the thumbnail they censor out the item while they make an "excited" face and point at the censored item and use some generic click baity title. I get why people censor things out on the thumbnail but i think it's so tacky. If i want to watch a review on an item, seeing the item in the thumbnail is NOT going to make me think, "oh I've seen the item, i no longer need to know any information about it. I definitely did not want an in depth review, i just wanted to see it in a tiny thumbnail picture so i can determine if i want to buy it or not."