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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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[โ€“] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I watch a ton of youtube. Mostly longform content 20 minutes or longer.

Clickbait has such a wide definition that I feel like setting clear definition would be important for your work.

We live in an attention economy where there is way more content for us to consume then we ever could so the point of descion is crucial and thumbnail and title do a lot of heavy lifting. I only dislike it and think it is a problem when it lies, or the video itself is lacking in substance.

In I a lot of gaming videos the thumbnail and or title is something along the lines of "How hard is it to beat X?" And they don't answer the question directly, but more they play through it and you answer for yourself by watching them. Some point count this as clickbait, but I'm personally ok with it.

[โ€“] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm like you, longform curated content exclusively from creators I've subscribed to. I just don't have the time for all the razz ma tazz going on these days.