Solution is DeArrow. https://dearrow.ajay.app/
Or, hear me out, just not using YouTube…
This is super interesting, thanks!
I’d respect youtubers who put cat on their thumbnail instead of themselves though.
Left: mr beast with his signature ‘soulless smile’
At least that horrific smile stopped the horror show photoshopped open mouths every one used to use to try to copy him.
When I see thumbnails like this, I click the three little dots and select “Don’t recommend channel”. I encourage you all to do the same.
I do the same. If a clickbait thumb is the first thing I’m seeing from some channel, it’s surely getting the “Don’t recommend” treatment.
The only exception I make is if I’m already subscribed to a channel and I know that the video will be okay despite the thumbnail. In this line of thought I have mad respect for channels that do their usual stuff with just plain thumbnails like they always have done.
Same. Or if they are especially annoying ill repot them for abuse. Sorry not sorry quit being a slut for themtube
You report channels for having different tastes than you? Whether you like the clickbaity thumbnails or not (Majority of us here on Lemmy don’t like them, myself included), we’re quite the minority. Clickbaity thumbnails work, otherwise we wouldn’t see them.
You’re calling the cops on a store owner because you don’t like their advertising. They’re not the ones abusing something, you’re the one abusing the report button.
YouTube is so ass nowadays. I just use it for music and to watch people I subbed all ready.
Not saturated enough
If everyone would stop watching slop they’d stop making it. But getting people to care about things is impossible
It’s interesting seeing how Mr Beast runs his thumbnails. Not “interesting” in a good way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s41rjEtwOE
He has staff who runs through hundreds of thumbnails per video. They ruthlessly apply A/B testing of variations. Some of those variations are tiny, like his hair laying slightly different. The thumbnail that comes out the other end (perhaps days or hours after the video is posted) is a carefully manufactured marketing ploy.
Which also implies that his soulless smile is itself manufactured to maximize view count. They ran variations of everything else, why not that? This is apparently what the algorithm wants.
At least that process stopped his distended open mouth thumbnails.
