Veritasium has some of the worst horseshit "clickbait" of anyone on Youtube. They know it too, because after they let the algorithm A/B test different clickbait titles on you for a month, they will change it to a real title that actually is relevant to the title and then I will finally be interested in the video because it actually suggest what it might be about. He's very much "selling out" but meh, he was never rea…
This really isn't a defense of Veritasium, but this has become the case with most videos where the creator makes a living off their channel. Everything is poorly named like this just so they can at least continue getting the same amount of views, because most views come from Youtube recommendations. It's only anecdata I have, but I've heard a lot of creators say that these days recommendations is the only way they get views, even channels with tons of subscribers. I personally rarely get recommended content from channels I actually subscribe to. It's really a lamentable state.