Watching YouTubers desperately edit/re-edit their thumbnails and titles to appease the algorithm hours after the initial (bad?) launch is equal parts entertaining and baffling.

Wish there was an option you could set for "just tell me what the video is about without the fluff".

Also, so much YouTube face.

@seejy I'm pretty sure the era of hastily editing titles and thumbnails was a few years ago. These days, YT just lets you set multiple titles and thumbnails from the beginning, and then the algorithm will do A/B testing all on its own.

@siguza I had no idea this was a thing! Of course it is!

It always makes me less likely to watch 😅

@seejy there is a plugin called dearrow that does this