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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.

Edit: format added to the questions.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I have watched a lot of YT over the years. Still do, though with certain prophylactics.

    I hate clickbait. If I see heavily ‘youtubified’ thumbnails and titles, it actively pushes me away from the video, regardless of whether there might be a good video behind it.

    I use de-arrow on all my devices. It crowd-sources non-clickbait titles and uses stills from the video as thumbnails the way YT used to. It’s a massive improvement in the user experience.

    Clickbait is the symptom, not the disease. The problem with essentially the whole of the internet is the advertising model. Ads are why clickbait exists. Ads are why data harvesting happens. Ads are why tracking cookies and fingerprinting are everywhere. Ads enable free accounts, which in turn enable bots, anonymous bullying/trolling, etc. Ads are the real point of every major site you use. Google is not a web search company. It is an advertising company. Facebook is not a social media company. It is an advertising company. Take away ads, almost every internet issue goes away, including clickbait.