Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Let’s also not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Aka. discredit any and all content just because of a clickbaity title.
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.
artyom@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I don’t discredit them but I often avoid them, because they give me no reason to watch them.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 hours ago
If something is obvious click bait I do the same, but many legit authors use clickbait because it’s needed in this attention economy.
(see the video link I posted above)
artyom@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I saw the video you posted when it was published several years ago. I don’t care why they do it.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Your own posts have clickbaity titles. https://piefed.social/u/artyom
It’s sadly basically unavoidable