So tired of people not knowing what clickbait is and accusing every title or phrase of being clickbait.
Hey, you don’t like the title? Cool. You don’t like what the title talks about? Sure. You don’t like that titles have to be short? I can dig that.
But unless the title is a gross misrepresentation of reality, or the content of what you’re going to watch or listen, it IS NOT CLICKBAIT.
@thelinuxEXP Going forward, just title all of your videos "I literally died to make this video for you."
If people are going to complain about clickbait, then double down. 😉
@thelinuxEXP "the title made me click it. Therefore it's clickbait!!!"
Folks seem to lump any title that is enticing them as clickbait. When in the end it's just marketing, not a flat out lie or misrepresentation of the video. The definition of clickbait has really shifted over the years. Ugh :(
@ThatGeekZen Yeah, and sure it’s all clickbait: it’s designed to get you to click and watch the stuff.
Why it became a negative thing, I don’t know.
But why didn't you use a CW as a clickbait here, I wonder ?! 🤔
Can't be worse than the movies' teasers though 😂
Preach!
Kids these days must’ve forgotten the pre-adpocalypse YouTube.
Classic example — thumbnail has a girl in a bikini with a shocked face, a big red arrow is pointing at something pixelated, and the title says „SHE DID WHAT???“. The video has no girls (or bikinis) and the topic is only tangentially related to the title.
If a video has an enticing thumbnail and a good title, AND also includes what the thumbnail and title said it would, that’s not clickbait. That’s good SMM.
This is a really good video from vertasium about the topic of clickbait which is even hard to define:
@0 I’m not talking about articles but videos, specifically mine.
I’m not saying all things people call clickbait are not clickbait. I’m saying people need to stop calling EVERYTHING clickbait.
Stay polite and watch your tone, friend. This isn’t Twitter.
@0 Dude, you came in, completely misunderstood something gens of other people had no trouble understanding, then replied in a nicely insulting manner and you wonder why people aren’t nice to you?
Yea, that makes you the very definition of a troll. Mastodon doesn’t exist to save your biased image of free speech.
@0 Well you might not care, but if you come in and start insulting me, I’m going to block or mute you. You wouldn’t do that to a stranger in the street (at least not if you’re a sane human being), no reason to do it to another stranger on the internet, or you’re getting the same reaction you would’ve gotten IRL.
Mastodon wasn’t created for free speech it was created to have a social platform not controlled by a big company ;)
@thelinuxEXP as you just said "this isn't twitter"
mastodon is a place where everyone is welcome to say whatever they want, it's an open world. If you're gonna be insulted because of what people say I'd advice going to twitter. Twitter has this report button. Here we go to say what you want. The rules you might follow on your instance isn't the rules others have. It's something we call a decentralized network :)
I love mastodon cause we can actually say what we want, not what guidelines say
@tbss @eddiecsilva It never is clickbait though, on my channel. Not in the sense that the contents of the video don’t match the title: you always get exactly what the title says.
Now if we use clickbait to say « it’s voluntarily a bit mysterious to incite a click », then yes, of course it is, it’s YouTube, if you don’t do it, might as well not publish a video at all.
@tbss @eddiecsilva Ah yeah, it can be tough to write news titles. I try to put 3 in each one, but sometimes that’s too long, and it might also make the video less « clickable » rather than having just one big item.
I know Linus Tech Tips does it this way as well, just 1 big item per news video in the title.
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