• ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        …Have you never watched Technology Connections before? None of his videos are clickbait. Quite the opposite, the entire video is about whatever is in the title.

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          4 months ago

          No. And I literally see two fat arrows in the thumbnail. That’d be an instant block if that would land on my YT page.

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            4 months ago

            You shouldn’t judge a channel purely by thumbnail. Everyone else in this thread can attest to the high quality of his videos.

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              I just generally have an aversion towards clickbait of any kind to the point where I can’t stand any video / channel using it. It’s cheap and manipulative and everyone supporting such shady tactics is someone I don’t want to associate with in any form.

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            4 months ago

            The two big arrows pointing to the awnings, the things the video are about and that are in the title? Huh?

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              4 months ago

              So? It’s still a clickbait tactic, same with the idiotically capitalized words a lot of channels use, or the shocked faces. Just because you are unaware of the psychological manipulation of clickbait tactics, does not mean this goes for everyone.

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                I dunno what to tell you it’s by definition not clickbait. You could argue that it’s teasing or engagement baiting I guess but it isn’t clickbait.