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.
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.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
Wolfgang