This dude’s content is decent (mostly), however the clickbaity thumbnails are getting out of hand. Does anyone else get VERY annoyed by this crap?
This dude’s content is decent (mostly), however the clickbaity thumbnails are getting out of hand. Does anyone else get VERY annoyed by this crap?
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I unsubscribed from him because I can’t stand this kind of clickbait. Especially because I noticed he has too little depth in his areas.
I’m overall really tired of the weekly videos from various youtuber where one week it’s “AMDS finished” the next “AMD WILL KILL IT” to “NVidia DYING? OMFG” or “INTEL bankrupt, AMD WINS” etc etc. It’s just to clickbaity overall and usually the stories are waaay overblown rumours.
it’s a shit channel.
It’s the YouTube meta, seems to be working for him
never open clickbait.
(or worse: reaction-videos to clickbait)
I quit watching any of his videos because of click bait. The dude has no credibility as a tech channel with the titles and thumbnails.
yeah this guy unfortunately has gone too far a direction that i can’t support around 8 months ago it started to be too much and too far
daniel owen’s channel is a great alternative
I remember I used to watch a streamer who would also post videos to YouTube. At some point he transitioned to the clickbait titles and thumbnails. When he was streaming someone called him out on it and basically his answer was this (paraphrasing):
“Yeah I think it’s stupid too, but my views went up significantly when I started doing it. Analytics don’t lie and this is my job, so I have to maximize my income and grow my channel while I can”.
I agree it’s annoying, but it’s hard to blame someone for doing what makes them the most successful at their job. Problem lies with the algorithm/the average consumer more than the creators IMO.
Just block him. He releases multiple videos on a single topic – which each pleases part of the community, pisses the rest and farm activity via arguing comments. Or tutorial videos about magic FPS boosters. Unfortunately they only work if you explicitely applied very stupid settings prior.
I’m fine with a touch of clickbait if it’s a running joke or something but straight up clickbait is just annoying and stupid
this won’t fix the actual video, but you can install dearrow (made by the same dude that made sponsorblock) to replace clickbaity titles and thumbnails with something that’s more straight to the point
Nope! You’re the only one! Nobody here has ever posted about clickbait thumbnails or titles!
No, I’m not 12.
It’s not just him with the fake tweet format. I generally manage to keep my recommendations pretty healthy but I’ve still seen a bunch of these pop up on different subjects, so it’s just part of the youtuber toolbox now.
I’m pretty sure it’s not actually designed to make people think it’s a real tweet, but man it would be a massive stretch to call it a joke or meme. It’s just a poor fucking idea even in the context of thumbnail “optimization.”
lol you should look into a guy called Mike zeroh, he’s a Star wars YouTuber and king of click bait
There’s a difference between clickbait that’s just obnoxious, and clickbait that’s straight up lying. The latter tells you not to bother with the video.
absolutely. I watch some of his vids, but there are some like him out there on yt I just won’t sub. So often filled bad opinions, wrong information… he seems like a nice guy though, so I don’t super dislike him.
Yep. It’s a depressing world we live in.
Faked quotes and tweets in thumbnails should be punished as misinformation
I refuse to click on videos that have outright fake tweets/quotes from other people/companies. The thumbnail you have pointed out goes past simply clickbait and is straight up misinformation.
This guy appears to do a lot of this shit recently.
Every channel does it, because it works, I hate it too but it keeps working. Asmongolds editors are the fucking worst with this shit
I’m tired of the nerdy guy at a desk talking at you about tech format in general. We need more dankpods style techtubers.
Honestly as soon as i saw his vid popup on my feed i read the title looked at the thumbnail and it hit me instantly… proceeded to hit the “dont recommend anymore” button, blocked, reported… this kind of snake content shouldnt be on anyones recommended but i guess this is the youtube game hence why it was recommended in the first place lol idk who to blame youtube or these type of content creators that cant indulge in actual informative content… kinda infuriating when you know there are dozens of better youtubers that never get the spotlight just because they refuse to actively bait and scam their audience for clicks and views…sad reality…
add Daniel Owen to the list
I’m a simple man.
I see clickbait title, I click don’t recommend channel.
Haven’t seen a new video recommendation in months.
This is unfortunately common with a lot of copypasta YouTubers. Analytics tells them people like catchy thumbnails with big letters.
When LMG started doing it I stopped subbing. The amount of times they put a click bait thumbnail and then I watch the whole video only to realize the thumbnail was a lie.
Generally, if I see a content creator starting to use clickbait thumbnails, I start backing off
I think I must be missing a lot of good creators because of click bait. I tolerate click bait from channels I like but I have thought to myself that I would never click on them if I didn’t know they were already good
Just watch Daniel Owen for GPU videos at this time. Dude’s legit
Every video is just mostly recapping hardware unboxed
DeArrow extension gets rid of clickbaity titles and thumbnails.
Vex does clickbait titles and thumbnails as good as any other channel, and since YouTube forces YouTubers to do that to get visibility in 2024, in fine with it tbh.
But this and the recent ASUS video specifically got me to unsubscribe. All it is, is rehashing or reacting to popular content without adding anything to it. That really sucks, because there was a lot of interesting videos in the past, like personal videos about switching gpus and their experience, or their opinions about what they were seeing with upscaling and other technologies, stuff that was obviously just their opinion but unapologetically so. A person that didn’t have all the answers but tried to find them with their own experience was far more interesting than listening to a GN video for 40 minutes and reacting to it.
I know Vex doesn’t look at Reddit cause Reddit is a cesspool of degenerates with minority opinions that don’t matter, me included, but if they do see this, I emplore them to go back to making more personalized exploratory content. That was really good. The past videos and “news recaps”, not good.