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Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like "the world will end soon" or "my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto."

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I'm start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of people complain about the clickbait headlines or that he's hamming it up for the camera. He does get a lot of hate.

I personally find him entertaining and I like most of the other presenters. I don't mind the clickbait headlines because they're all clickbait, it's like a running joke itself.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah they've openly said that they wish they didn't have to do the clickbaiting, but that the effect it has on their total views/revenue in undeniable. It's kinda just how YouTube is at this point, adapt or die

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Veritasium did a video about it, with data to back it up. They took old video and reposted them with and without clickbait titles and images. The difference of views is staggering. People just like it o suppose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's always option c, which is not pursuing a media empire... lots of small channels that are successful without the clickbait crap.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of what they want to do and do in fact do wouldn't be possible at a smaller size. Their new lab uses equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the hundreds of staff they now have that need to be paid

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aw, that's unfortunate. Clickbait by itself shouldn't ruin a creator for someone. Gotta look for the positives, not the negatives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'M SO ANGRY. I WAS BAMBOOZLED INTO WATCHING A VIDEO I ENJOYED.