Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That alone is enough for me to not watch it.

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  • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The thumbnail is satire, the video is from the person who originally exposed the honey scam.

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    • myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t change my opinion.

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      • Devial@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They teach literal children to not judge a book by it’s cover, but I guess you must’ve been out sick that day in kindergarden…

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right? It tickles something in the back of my brain that just makes me angry. I don’t want to reward that.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean it has Mr. Beast’s AI-generated face with that disturbing grimace he always has and those creepy fake veneers.

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      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s Mr Beast? I’ve never watched anything of his, so I don’t know what he actually looks like. If this is one of his standard video thumbnails I now understand why people hate them/him so much!

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      • Zeddex@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I was thinking exactly that. Like is that really his face or is this GenAI? It has to be GenAI right?

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t watch any videos with these stupid faces and I hate when someone I follow suddenly starts doing it. ಠ_ಠ

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• MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t choose it (not my video).

  I’d encourage you to watch it anyway, if you can get past the trauma…

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “trauma” is not the point here

    The point is that all YouTube videos now have these extremely annoying clickbait thumbnails and titles and that is not a good thing

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    • 46_and_2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hate them too, but that style of thumbnail has been a major YT thing for like a decade. Avoid them like the plague, myself, and even mark them as “not interested”, “don’t recommend channel” for the more annoying ones. Probably ain’t much of an impact, but at least teaching the algo what not to show me.

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m gonna have to hide this post because it’s really creeping me out. It’s not even his video right? No way I’m clicking on that.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, it’s not my video, and it’s not like I chose the thumbnail.

    I’ll just say folks, this has left me with a “people just like to complain” vibes.

    The video is excellent, and exposing how the internet is the wild west of companies lying, cheating and stealing.

    Maybe you could engage with that, rather than the creator having to make a stupid thumbnail to keep the algorithm happy.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know it’s not your video, I meant it’s not the creator’s face on the thumbnail, sorry about that. I really can’t stand the thumbnail and I can’t give the click especially for a topic I don’t really care about. Honey sucks. I learned that a while ago.

      That being said, thank you very much for sharing the video.

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