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What are your thoughs about YouTube clickbait? (lemmy.world)
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I started to write a script for a video about how clickbait have really damaged the platform, clickbait taking it to the point the make the creators says "it's okay, we need monetize, we need to catch your attention somehow, this is the only and the good way", and I need to make some field research gathering some people opinions about it (I going to ask to some people IRL too). So what do you think? Feel free to answer any of the questions below, and add whatever come to your mind, everything it's appreciated.

  • Do you use youtube mainly?
  • Do you care about clickbait?
  • Did clickbait make you stop seeing some creator?
  • Did you use youtube but clickbait (among other things) made you to stop using it's platform?
  • Do you think clickbait is the major of the YouTube's problems?
  • Do you see something good in clickbait among the bad things? Like, which ones?
  • Could we see clickbait as a necessary evil?

Thanks again! Have a nice day.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Between the clickbait, YouTube "enhancements", exploding AI slop videos and the atrocious search facility, the platform is rapidly becoming completely unusable for finding relevant information when you're looking for answers.

As an entertainment platform it's forcing creators to make long form content and making viewers sit through more and more low quality content.

It's evolving, but I'm pretty sure it's heading towards extinction, rather than greatness.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For many years, YT have been taking steps towards beginning more like TV. Shows made by corporations, made to be enjoyed by “all audiences”, filled with ads and so on.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This made me realize just how much YT doesn't know what it wants to be, with introduction of YT shorts and other social media features.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 1 week ago

They know that they need to make more money. Everything else is secondary.