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What are your thoughs about YouTube clickbait? (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

I don’t want to reward clickbait, so I tend to avoid them. I’m less likely to watch a content creator if I think they use clickbait too much.

However, I don’t think it’s a big of a deal. I’m more tired of all the slop content. Videos that pretend it has something important to say, but it’s not any deeper than a Wikipedia excerpt.

And if some YouTuber hits big with one video, expect at least 20 other creators make videos of the same topic with nothing new to say.

The algorithm has been really bad lately.