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Oh hey I didn't know Meidas Touch had a podcast, I've been watching them on youtube for a while.
I just checked out their YT channel - their thumbnails and titles are moderately aggravating. They are definitely using STUPID TACTICS in order to get MORE CLICKS.
They drove me away with those tactics before I ever saw they were on YouTube. No, Donald Trump was not EVISCERATED by a tweet that he -couldn’t- -didn’t- couldn’t read, kick rocks with that dumb Avenatti hashtag resist horseshit
That's just the way youtube works. If you want to make a financially viable youtube channel, you don't really have an other option than to play the game.
Everyone is doing this. To be fair I don't blame them. I ignore the titles and watch for the content.
Not everyone does, especially with the capitalization. My favourite creators generally don't do either of these things.
I will concede that the most popular channels usually do this.. but in my mind they are aiming for children and the unintelligent with their tactics. Which in turn usually turns me off their content, unless it is amazing.
Yeah it infuriates me that that is the way to get clicks and farm veiws. A lot of the time, the content is actually good, but fuck, those stupid ass thumbnails and titles drive me insane.
Unfortunately it works. We have to remember that their methodology is the reason why they have a massive audience in the first place. So we need to distinguish the marketing from the material.
Dems could learn a thing or two from Republicans on this front.
I would assume any popular “political” podcast on either side would do this.
Any YouTube channel in general has to to some extent to simply get people to click. It's crazy how the psychology of it works, and people need to exploit it in order to just not disappear in the sea of YouTube videos.
I remember somebody talking once about why so many video thumbnails have the person's head superimposed on them, and it's because people are like 46% more likely to click on a video if it has a person's face on it than if it doesn't, even if it's the exact same video.
I wish I were normal human sometimes. If I see someone's face on a thumbnail and there are several capitalized words in the title, I'm just not going to watch the video. Same goes for any vertical video.
Funny cause I'm less likely too.