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CarlsIII@kbin.social 10 months agoI remember hearing someone talk about how you have to have those shitty kinds of thumbnails to get any decent visibility on YouTube. I’m not sure exactly how it works or if there’s any truth to it though.
nous@programming.dev 10 months ago
I have heard multiple different creators say a similar thing - they don’t want to but it works and not doing it hurts the views they get. And there are lots of creators out there basically doing A/B testing on them to see what things preform better - and this is what we are left with.
It is sad that meaningful titles at least have gone as it makes it much harder to actually search for things. Thumbnails I care less about.
Sadly I think it works because people click on them. Or are more likely to. Most people seem to just be more likely to click on the flashy simple click baity titles and thumbnails. Those that don’t, I suspect, are in the small minority. Though I think at least some of this is due to them pushing algorithmic content over anything else so hard.