A good solution will be to go back to have the thumbnail a pick of the actual video not an over-engineered art form.
People will just go back to inserting a carefully produced image as the very first frame of their video.
YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
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Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#42This post made me want to re-read "You Are Not a Gadget." One of Lanier's points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and…
Nice comment, I have upvoted it.
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#43Has anyone else noticed how much this min-maxing is effecting all different areas of the world? I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops! I find th…
Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#44And the YouTube Title. “You won’t believe what happens next”
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#45This post made me want to re-read "You Are Not a Gadget." One of Lanier's points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and…
>it still feels weird to see ordinary people For me this is where these YT tropes get interesting. When you get past the thumbnails of the mega channels with multiple full time employees who are obviously doing something very baity and strategic, you’re left with the ordinary channels who mimic these tropes likely without deep consideration or even consciousness. It’s just more of a will to survive kind of thing, and…
that sounds a lot like a feedback loop.
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#46A good solution will be to go back to have the thumbnail a pick of the actual video not an over-engineered art form.
People will just go back to inserting a carefully produced image as the very first frame of their video.
Just make the algorithm select a random frame, and it will be solved.
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#47This post made me want to re-read "You Are Not a Gadget." One of Lanier's points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and…
Quality over quantity. Seek ten views that let you engage with another human being rather than however many views which will never let you really make contact
Yeah but how many views do you need to put food on the table?
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#48One of my favorite youtube channels does this: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw/vid... And it bothers me. Even Linus put up a video explaining that he's sorry for the annoying thumbnails but it drives views.
The Strange Parts previews don't seem so bad compared to some of the more egregious examples.
He seems to have the same facial expression in all of them. I don't think putting a big picture of your face on the preview is a bad thing, it makes it easier to visually filter videos by creator.