It’s getting ridiculous. There’s one youtuber that swapped the thumbnail 4 times this week just to make people look at it again and think it was a different video. The worst part is that it sort of works, I keep looking at it then remembering I saw something very similar from the same channel name yesterday.

I hate this so damn much.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, i think they’re testing what will drive click. I noticed channel like kurzgesagt will initially post it with very clickbaity thumbnail and title, then will swap to less clickbaity one. It’s annoying but i do understand why they do this. Makes me appreciate those who don’t join the enshittification race.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah. I appreciate that they’re trying to make their back catalog intelligible and searchable.

      There’s nothing worse than looking at a YouTube channel that posts a tremendous number of videos, and then every single one has a thumbnail that’s completely meaningless oh wow you won’t believe this oh my god they did that what happens next…