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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The majority of videos I that pop up on my home feed don’t have clickbait thumbnails. A few admittedly do, but they are usually way toned down and when mixed among other videos in my feed not as vacuous when it’s just a few of them.

I think the issue can be largely self correcting on the user side if people just take a little bit of effort to curate good content for themselves.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, terrible thumbnails and titles are just a part of the culture in some circles, even if the channels themselves make good content. Look at this trash, and these are actually the better ones:

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Clickbait works

LTT has repeatedly done less clickbaity titles/thumbnails and their views are noticeably lower. The YT algorithm pushes clickbait a lot more than non-clickbait.

[-] Kilamaos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's not really yt algorithm that pushes it. People click more on clickbait (duh) so yt sees more engagement so it shoes it more. Blame people, not youtube imo

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's a combination of both. Google pushes people into watching random shit rather than a curated feed of their subscriptions. It didn't used to be this way. YT used to reward subscribers heavily but now creators are dependent on the algo for ~50% of their traffic.

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