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Does anyone else notice the infuriating trend of people renaming youtube videos and swapping thumbnails? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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It's getting ridiculous. There's one youtuber that swapped the thumbnail 4 times this week just to make people look at it again and think it was a different video. The worst part is that it sort of works, I keep looking at it then remembering I saw something very similar from the same channel name yesterday.

I hate this so damn much.

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[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 65 points 4 months ago

They're not trying to trick people into re-watching videos they've already seen. YouTube generally does a pretty good job of not recommending those videos anyway. They're simply testing which thumbnail/title brings the most traffic. It might seem petty but it makes a huge difference.