Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You have to understand shit like these thumbsnails arent made for people like you and me.

  They are made for the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins who are incapable of rational, independent thought. The kind that run out and put sandpaper on their windshield wipers and microwave their phones to “fast recharge” them because they saw a video that said to do that.

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  • retrieval4558@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Aren’t you just such a smart, special, edgy boy

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Weird take, but you do you man.

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  • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, because nothing says “intellectual superiority” quite like ranting about thumbnails on the internet…

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We should all endeavor to learn from your shining example.

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  • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Username checks out

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is why I love my username.

      Cause its low hanging fruit that people who can mount no actual counter point cant resist the urge to reach for.

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      • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Whether or not it’s a valid counter point you continue to act superior when all you achieve is be a massive dick to people that don’t mind the thumbnail or video

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  • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    well, there are quite a lot of stupid things i did as a kid. kids just need to learn critical thinking through experience.

    i would guess, that a large audience of youtube is kids: except retirees, they usually have the most free time.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unfortunately this is just the way it is on YT now. Post clickbait thumbnails, or miss out on hundreds of thousands of views. Because that’s the way YT likes it. They don’t want to positively weight long-term high-quality content, they want to promote clickbait.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.

    Do they go back and change thumbnails after a while? LTT does focus on a lot of evergreen content as well.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If someone cares about their view count then you shouldn’t give their content your time of day

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Quite the opposite. If they didn’t care about the view count the content wouldn’t exist in the first place. No one makes content with the intention of no one watching it, and they certainly don’t make high quality content that requires a team of people and expensive equipment.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They make them because it’s fun/they are passionate

        And that makes them higher quality

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• Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As part of the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins, i have to say that while i dont love thumbnails like that, i still click on the video because i know it’ll be quality

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• ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And that’s why I have Dearrow. Bye bye bait thumbnails and titles.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Problem is that these people still get views then

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    • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      People start yt channels for a lot of reason and probably the biggest reason is money. I don’t really understand your fixation over yt channels only being passion project.

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      • thethirdobject@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        i understand even less when people are saying that when someone does something out of passion it should allow us to consume it for free

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      • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Especially with some channels being financially successful labors of love like Red Letter Media.

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