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Look at that guy making that stupid face in the first thumbnail. I fucking hate that.

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It’s for the ALGORITHM

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You might hate it, but it’s proven to get more people to watch the video. It sucks, but that’s how they make money to make more videos.

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A lot of people don’t even read video titles anymore. They just look at the thumbnail and they’ll click if it catches their attention.

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I always click “Don’t recommend channel” when the thumbnail looks like this. I don’t know if it has improved recommendations at all, but I certainly don’t see it as often, which is nice.

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⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!

Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.

LTT/LMG community. Brought to you by ******… Actually, no, not this time. This time it’s brought to you by Lemmy, the open communities and free and open source software!

If you post videos from Youtube/LTT, please please un-clickbait the titles. (You can use the title from https://nitter.net/LTTtranslator/ but it doesn’t seem to have been updated in quite some while…)

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