Why is the title of this post cropped in such a weird way?
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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Probably my attempt to make it sound less click-baity, which it definitely does sound like. The video itself is quite good though.
Alternatively, it looks like the title of the original video itself has changed on YouTube. It now reads as "This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week", but somehow I had the shortened version of "(This Video) Will Save Your Life Next Week", so I think the latter might have been what it was at the time that I watched it?
Especially with all the shit I got for sharing a video with that much of a click-bait style title (in the cross-posted version, see e.g. the part where I specifically brought up that it "might", not "will" save some people's lives), I definitely would not have made it more click-baity than it was already.
The current title on YouTube reads much better imho, so if that is what happened, then I am glad that they changed it, to help it reach a wider audience.
Kurzgesagt is fucking awesome, and deserves significantly more acclaim than it seems to be receiving on Lemmy imho.
Youtubers test different titles all the time. And it's been shown that changing titles and thumbnails sometimes drives views by itself.
I watched the video, and while the video is a bit clickbaity, the title of this post just makes no sense.
Perhaps the post title used to be what the video title was, verbatim (and then adding the duration as the rules specify). That's nearly always what I do when sharing a link, so represents a distinct possibility.
This video is highly recommended by Tournesol community:
[42🌻] Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: This Video Might Save 58 Lives Next Week
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