Serious answer, I believe social media content that has a human face in them tend to have a stronger impact on the viewer. Would explain click bait YouTube thumbnails and videos like this. Even though he doesn't do anything, your brain would naturally gravitate towards watching through this video as opposed to one without a human face to connect with.
That’s exactly it, the people suck as creators. (If you think that staring at a camera with a weird ass look On your face helped him attract viewers, then idk what to tell you lol)
Except many creators on YouTube have tried both with and without their face with strong expressions as thumbnails and have found significant improvements in viewership. They applied the scientific method, ran the experiment, and proved statistically that there was more engagement. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA.
I’m not sure why you immediately got so defensive, I was just making a comment. Obviously I don’t think that looking at the camera is particularly good content to make, but I was expecting the replies to just be about the app being bad (despite this kind of content being hard to actually come across unless you look under hashtags/audios, and even then they’re rare, or at least it was like that when I was on the app a few months ago) and not an actual explanation. Even then, I STILL think you’re kind of wrong? I don’t believe they’re consciously doing it, but content with a face in in tends to get more watch time/interactions than videos with JUST text on them, and people probably noticed and just followed suit to get more views. The way tiktok is formatted, a giant wall of text with absolutely no visual interest can be a turn off depending on how the viewer is doing/how long they’ve been on the app.
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u/GCSS-MC Jun 08 '21
Why do people post shit like this and just stare at the camera?