Speedrunner and challenge RUclipsr astralspiff. His thumbnails and titles don't lie at all about what the video is about ,His videos are about exactly what the title says.
Top Deck Heroes are a card game RUclips channel. They mostly post gameplay videos and do podcasts on announcements from Bushiroad, the company that makes the game.
Insym is a great content creator. He may have some over the top reactions in his thumbnails, but those are genuine faces he's made while playing said game
that would hurt harmless text to speech youtubers like myself who don't want to show their voice for privacy or can't speak due to a disability preventing them from ever having a voice without TTS.
There is De-Arrow, it's an add-on that kinda works like community notes! I think there's about one (1) good AI narrated channel on the whole platform lol. IDK if there's an add on to filter for that yet :(
the worst for me is the gooner clickbait... i mean when you click it its the exact thing you would expect, i mean so its not misleading, you get what you came for,, sometimes its just the tumbnail tho. but the absolute ,, just the worst ive ever seen is actual porn, WITHIN THE TUMBNAIL AND THE VIDEO, that has been up for 7 years, like tf. its rare, but it happens. i click cause i go "no way this could be uploaded on youtube." sometimes i feel like youtube should just add an 18+ tab and just have all that slop moved there, come on.
tbh at this point, after many years of watching youtube ive become so dissensitised from the Click baity tittles/thumbnails that i just look at it and go "Oh yeah cool.. anyway" and proceed to ignore the video. Unless its on a topic i actually enjoy/am interested on.
It’s no joke! I got diagnosed with type III Loquacious Shitposting Disorder just last week, and type II Clickbait Syndrome is frequently comorbid with it.
Ragebait is awful and has made me stay completely out of online discourse for the most part. This is maybe the third comment I've put on RUclips in weeks because it seems, no matter what I say or how I say it, someone will reply angrily and try to start an argument. It's exhausting how quick people are to anger and how dishonest they are in conversations. As you said, it's become more about winning the argument than having a discussion and I want no part in it.
I've made some funny comments on random videos that got thousands of likes, and its always crazy to see that after some point when people begin to reply my comment, they start fighting within my comment's replies, and the discussion goes so far beyond what I initially said. like if you see the last reply on the debate it has absolutely nothing to do with my original comment, which was just some dumb joke that somehow began a fight with people calling each other names.
@@derpderp9281 right! i have a somewhat popular comment with a ton of replies. to be fair my og comment was wrong in one aspect, so someone corrected it. from their it just spiraled down
Only reason why rage-bait is even a thing is that some years ago a study was done and they found out that content which elicited rage and upset was the most viral. All of the social media platforms started to optimize their algorithm for that signal because it is easiest to make viral, there are other ways to make a video go viral with the title and it's not about clickbait per se, it's about understanding your core audience, your casual audience and who the tourists are, if you craft a Thumbail that get's attention and a title that elicits interest, is based on the theme of the title which factors those different groups to your content, you should have a successful video that is well liked and popular. The content has to deliver on the promise to make this all work. - the other thing that is neglected in the convo here is that not only watch time is factored but so is engagement, likes and comments drive the content even further.
The real issue with RUclips is that you click on one video about a subject and suddenly you get a thousand more on the same info you just saw and you end up not watching anything as you t ry to look for other things. RUclips is such a shit site that it's become so damn boring to browse through. I miss when you could click on one video and next set of videos would be different making it more entertaining. Now it's just so damn boring.
I'd also like to add that the search function sucks nowadays. If you search anything with the tiniest hint of controversy, you either get irrelevant results or nothing but mainstream media. And I'm not on RUclips for mainstream media.
It is so difficult to actually find new people on youtube, I swear. It's part of why I have a few specific react channels I keep watching because they help me branch out to find new creators to follow.
OMG this. It completely reorganizes my home page algorithm or I get a ton of videos I've already watched. I find that I don't watch videos I may be interested in at the moment because I don't want it flooding my home page with 20 similar videos I'm no longer interested in because I got the answer I was looking for. Searching also sucks because I only get popular content creators, and on mobile, it adds a section of unrelated videos between every 10 or so search related videos. Does clearing the watch history really work after a long watch time?
The loss of the concept of respectful criticism is definitely a huge issue, but unfortunately making people angry at you is a great way to farm attention, definitely bleeds off the internet to, people just want a reason to be mad as always
This really isn't a "these days" issue, a lot of people growing up with the Internet just are sort of oblivious to it because they don't read tabloids. Like, really, the ragebait you see on RUclips and Facebook utilises EXACTLY the same strategies as The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Star have been using for up to half a century. What's happened is that this rubbish has now gotten its tendrils into social media. It sort of frustrates me that the hard work people have done fighting back at tabloids over the decades is undone because people want to gloss over it to paint some "things were better in my day" narrative. And it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy really. Things will only become worse because people haven't acknowledged properly the issues of the past, like not acknowledging a wound and later acting like the resulting infection just sprang out of nowhere.
@@thecrispymaster you know what, I never really thought of that, it would be more accurate to say it’s more a long standing society and/or human nature issue than a today thing, I’ll adjust the phrasing (genuinely not sarcastically)
@@thecrispymaster the difference is that with tabloid it's not as easily accesible as youtube, for magazine, tabloid and gossip tv show while still bad you aren't being exposed to it 24/7
I feel like I used to have my next 5 videos I wanted to watch picked from my home page in like a min. Now I just scroll looking for anything interesting for like 10 mins and if I don’t find anything I just go back to an old video.
I miss the days when clickbait was a video some kid made in their room to harmlessly mislead people for a laugh. Now it's media teams desperately trying to suck your soul out of you and hook you on their content like a drug
I feel a little robbed, I thought this video was going to be more about Jacksepticeye's arguments about Mr. Beast. LOL thumbnail got me, and it was a good video.
As someone who watches a good amount of youtube, I also dislike how I have to actively search for anything new or interesting. Big channels get promoted, channels I already subscribe to/watch get promoted, but over 50% of that is videos I may have watched a few years back, or even recently.
Reminds me of a video about RUclips kids showing very much stuff not for kids in their thumbnails and content. RUclips has a serious problem with its moderation and allowing hate bait and not safe for life stuff to be on the platform is an injustice to its real content creators and animators who want to show their passion and talent who will get demonitized or banned from mass reporting.
Not to mention the ones involving irl animals. Those ones are absolutely sickening and I just instant report without clicking. I'm too scared to see if those gory thumbnails are genuine or not.
@@4zureSapphire true! That's way I made a playlist to help those small animation creator in hope that I could at least help them to get a bit of views on their video
And to add to this, if you point out that someone's content has turned into constant negativity, people shit on you. Assuming your opinion is opposite of theirs and that you're just mad, or that you don't care about the topic enough, or they just insert some common internet insult because God forbid they have some originality. Then hate mobs form and people become unable to have an honest conversation about something
Love the video, it's very thought out, but I'm so sleep deprived that I couldn't help keep alt tabbing wondering how I accidentally launched Borderlands 2 with that background music at the start. I legitimately thought I was going mad.
@JTB-1 thats a sub type of vtuber A PNGtuber is also a Vtuber But not all Vtubers are PNGtubers Cause remember the v just means virtual Its similar to how CoD is a MOBA Cause its a Multiplayer Online Battle Area (that acronym is really unspecific in what it means)
@@theirishviking9278 I think terms like "MOBA" do have a kind of connotation that wouldn't match things like CoD, which I view as often more significant than what's technically accurate
I think youtube is losing the war on bad content in general, not just clickbait, most of the content on youtube is just reacting nontent, or video essay nontent
I recently had channel growth for a gaming channel, I was extremely happy as I was getting tons of engagements. Now, my videos barely get anything to what they once had going. Went from struggling to grow, I grew with ease but now struggling to get views/support from main majority of my subscribers and I don't even clickbait. I don't even know on what to actually do now. I'll keep trying but the passion is starting to fade with dread and fear of growing to only get nothing back in return. I have no idea on what's wrong with the modern day audience.
I love how you basically did what the Ludwig video says to do, its extremely enjoyable to watch/listen to and was educational. Well played but also great video
Every time I finish one of your video essays I find myself back on your channel page just marvelling at how amazing and different these videos are to the content I originally came to your channel for. Having quitted destiny a while before you did I hadn't engaged with your channel (or any Destiny related content) in a long time as I didn't want to FOMO myself into a relapse, these new videos however have brought me back after said hiatus and its such a beautiful reunion. I wish you the best of luck in your pivot towards other content, and please keep making such delightful videos. :)
The reality is that as long as social media is algorithmically driven to seek engagement above all other metrics, our online communication will continue to degrade into oblivion.
This is a genuinely good video. Well in depth. You’ve done your research and covered a lot of good topics with plenty of things to back up your statements.
@@CerberusPlusOne If you are referring to the Videogamedunkey clip, that isn't a reaction channel. Dunkey has a reaction video on his channel, making fun of other reaction videos.
@@CerberusPlusOne I suppose it depends how you view reaction channels. I'd argue it falls under fair use, and I think they serve a similar goal to that of Let's Play channels. People watch let's plays to see the creator react to the game, I think reaction channels are probably in that same boat
The other problem is simply that their priorities are wrong. They might be a bit more effective at fighting this stuff if they stopped singling out specific creators for harassment and mobbing them off the platform for ridiculous bs, and actually worked to make their guidelines and moderation more fair, effective, and easier to work with/understand. They seem to go more after actual creators using clickbait thumbnails than they do bot accounts whose entire content base is clickbait, as you’re talking about.
Hats off for your team to dive into the belly of the beast and flexing that journalism muscle. These are expensive productions and I hope that these efforts pay off in the long run versus gaming content videos.
8:24 this is otherwise known as “rage bait”, majority of people who watch or see these things we all collectively say, rage bait, the best we can do is call it out or walk away, engagement feeds these people money
Honestly I don't understand why people don't curate their pages. There is an option to stop showing specific channels, and poof, that channel will never show up again. Last time I saw genuine click bait was over a year ago
Amazing video that hopefully will spark more discourse/discussion, hopefully it will also teach a lot of people on all the different clickbaits. Also good choice with music, I've noticed you used Zelda, Hollow Knight, and Minecraft. Keep up the great content
It might not be a solvable problem, because RUclips exists to make money; and if the best solution for consumers and creatives isn't also the most profitable, then they will continue using a "bad" system until they are fiscally pressured to do so.
Sucks as we had something that combated this somewhat *dislike button* cough but big companies and sponsors hated getting dislikes on their videos so it was removed
9:58 my gripe with titles like this is that all the video does is provide a synopsis of an episode with no input or opinion. so many times i click them, and realise halfway that they just told me an episode of the topic in the same time span that i could have watched in my free time which would be a bait, to cash engagement by people in the comments to give their opinions and inputs.
I dunno that Dunkey is the best example here since a lot of his content revolves around the concept of being harsh and condescending of other people's art under a -- and I'm sorry for this -- not even particularly thin veneer of parody. Fans of japanese RPGs that watch Dunkey have been mentioned as everything between outright stupid, to incapable of understanding what the concept of "fun" is. Nevermind how the actual creators of that art may feel. It's very easy to forget that there's a butt to every joke when the butt of the joke is always the same and it never includes you. He's also never been shy from saying he does that specifically to rile that demographic up, at which point how is that any different from your garden variety ragebait nonsense? I think at some point we either accept that someone's going to be hurt in the process of content creation and that you are obligated to cater to people's rage in order to get big on this platform, or we strive to filter out people whose content necessitates hurting someone for the amusement of somebody else.
12:00 Glitch is an alt account of SMG4, who had been uploading since 2009 and had a storyline since 2011. Idk why you're saying new when they've been on the platform for 13 years and have experience as an OG youtuber.
The search functionality sucks today too. It will show you a handful of results and then just start showing random stuff it recommends. RUclips used to be such a great place to find really specific instructional videos and stuff but now it's a struggle to find useful stuff.
For me, it's the "got owned/destroyed/annihilated" videos that definitely aren't that, or the thumbnails that include someone making some stupid face - and yes, that includes some of my favorite D2 content creators.
What I like about Daily Dose Of Internet is that the first video they show is from the thumbnail and title, so you don't have to wait for the whole duration to get what's going on. You don't feel cheated
Too be fair. Jack is part of the problem about people fighting. He started taking up dumb talking points from games media like resident evil being racist.
RUclips shorts are becoming a cesspool of bad content. Between every other scroll being an ad for adult content websites (not sure how that works since I mostly watch gaming and news based content) and repeat green screen videos it's just bad.
Suggestion: stop watching shorts entirely! If you need a push to do this, and if you're tech savvy and comfortable with getting your hands dirty, search "revanced manager"
i mean maybe you could argue that youtube should raise the line limit before a read more is set, but i feel like its pretty rreasonable as-is. either you put a character limit on comments, or you put a readmore on long comments, otherwise itd be a lot more annoying to scroll through a comment section. having character limits is more significant for full on social media posts, rather than the comments on those posts.
I don't know if it's because I'm highly critical or because I'm autistic and my mind works differently, but the best performing thumbnails and titles really put me off. Especially when there's someone's face looking surprised. UGH. I actively tell RUclips "Don't recommend this channel". One of my favourite RUclipsrs, Debug Your Brain, who makes excellent videos about psychology and changing minds... I DESPISE his thumbnails and titles.
It's stupid, RUclips is making its job harder by not at all paying attention to the stuff I'm actually viewing and giving me things it thinks I want to watch. I want to watch things I want to watch, not things someone else is watching.
I don’t know how long this is already going on. But recently I’ve been noticing that even some of the newer RUclipsrs I’ve subscribed to are haunt thumbnails that feel like clickbait. Even the more serious ones. More of these RUclipsrs are showing their defend with the surprised face.
youtube isn't losing! that would imply they cared in the first place. all they want is more money. they might claim to be against clickbait but in reality they love it, means more ad rev for them.
11:30 that sentiment is so real i never know what game hes playing 9 times out of 10 but just him is enough to have we watching its why i still watch scott the woz or ken and even you, your human expression feels so real, mrbeast just feels uncanny, he absolutely does not mean any emotion he puts through love your videos man thank you
Who are some of your favorite creators that steer clear of clickbait tactics? Anyones I havent heard of?
minecraft youtuber rekrap2, great content creator all around
Speedrunner and challenge RUclipsr astralspiff. His thumbnails and titles don't lie at all about what the video is about ,His videos are about exactly what the title says.
Bricky. If you click on any of his channels, you get exactly what you expected. Same thing for TheRussianBadger and his whole crew.
Top Deck Heroes are a card game RUclips channel. They mostly post gameplay videos and do podcasts on announcements from Bushiroad, the company that makes the game.
Insym is a great content creator. He may have some over the top reactions in his thumbnails, but those are genuine faces he's made while playing said game
RUclips desperately needs a community notes feature and it needs a setting that removes Ai narration from ALL results and recommended.
@@FeedMeSalt
Not removes, but rather allows users to remove.
@@FireFox64000000 yes?? That's what they said?? That's what a setting is
that would hurt harmless text to speech youtubers like myself who don't want to show their voice for privacy or can't speak due to a disability preventing them from ever having a voice without TTS.
A browser extension that allows you to vote and remove those videos from other youtube viewers
There is De-Arrow, it's an add-on that kinda works like community notes!
I think there's about one (1) good AI narrated channel on the whole platform lol. IDK if there's an add on to filter for that yet :(
I hate how bad the clickbait has gotten. It's been gettin worse for years
the worst for me is the gooner clickbait... i mean when you click it its the exact thing you would expect, i mean so its not misleading, you get what you came for,, sometimes its just the tumbnail tho. but the absolute ,, just the worst ive ever seen is actual porn, WITHIN THE TUMBNAIL AND THE VIDEO, that has been up for 7 years, like tf. its rare, but it happens. i click cause i go "no way this could be uploaded on youtube." sometimes i feel like youtube should just add an 18+ tab and just have all that slop moved there, come on.
Man that ending is something I really needed to hear. The current wave of fear going on is oppressing.
@@Honed- Intersting how they got away with it without youtube taking the video and channel down for breaking guidelines.
@@johnnysocket76 there's so much competition. To make a living RUclipsrs kinda got to make click bait to get a piece of the pie
tbh at this point, after many years of watching youtube ive become so dissensitised from the Click baity tittles/thumbnails that i just look at it and go "Oh yeah cool.. anyway" and proceed to ignore the video.
Unless its on a topic i actually enjoy/am interested on.
Type 2 clickbait? Sounds like something my doctor would diagnose me with.
It’s no joke! I got diagnosed with type III Loquacious Shitposting Disorder just last week, and type II Clickbait Syndrome is frequently comorbid with it.
The thumbnail is up to type-3 now. The bait is growing!
Jesus Christ, I can't believe you are here
ON THIS VIDEO I GOT DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 3 CLICKBAIT DISORDER
WHEN WILL YOU RETURN?
Ragebait is awful and has made me stay completely out of online discourse for the most part. This is maybe the third comment I've put on RUclips in weeks because it seems, no matter what I say or how I say it, someone will reply angrily and try to start an argument. It's exhausting how quick people are to anger and how dishonest they are in conversations. As you said, it's become more about winning the argument than having a discussion and I want no part in it.
I just don't like your name, avatar, or the way you type. You tryna start an argument? I'd win btw.
I've made some funny comments on random videos that got thousands of likes, and its always crazy to see that after some point when people begin to reply my comment, they start fighting within my comment's replies, and the discussion goes so far beyond what I initially said. like if you see the last reply on the debate it has absolutely nothing to do with my original comment, which was just some dumb joke that somehow began a fight with people calling each other names.
@@derpderp9281 right! i have a somewhat popular comment with a ton of replies. to be fair my og comment was wrong in one aspect, so someone corrected it. from their it just spiraled down
Only reason why rage-bait is even a thing is that some years ago a study was done and they found out that content which elicited rage and upset was the most viral. All of the social media platforms started to optimize their algorithm for that signal because it is easiest to make viral, there are other ways to make a video go viral with the title and it's not about clickbait per se, it's about understanding your core audience, your casual audience and who the tourists are, if you craft a Thumbail that get's attention and a title that elicits interest, is based on the theme of the title which factors those different groups to your content, you should have a successful video that is well liked and popular. The content has to deliver on the promise to make this all work. - the other thing that is neglected in the convo here is that not only watch time is factored but so is engagement, likes and comments drive the content even further.
Why does youtube want me to look up ragebait
The real issue with RUclips is that you click on one video about a subject and suddenly you get a thousand more on the same info you just saw and you end up not watching anything as you t ry to look for other things. RUclips is such a shit site that it's become so damn boring to browse through.
I miss when you could click on one video and next set of videos would be different making it more entertaining. Now it's just so damn boring.
Agreed. Having hard time Watching anything interesting where time to time is watch older Videos from like YouAlwaysWin or JackSepctEye
I'd also like to add that the search function sucks nowadays. If you search anything with the tiniest hint of controversy, you either get irrelevant results or nothing but mainstream media. And I'm not on RUclips for mainstream media.
This why I immediately clear it from my watch history after watching 😂 It's been working so far
It is so difficult to actually find new people on youtube, I swear. It's part of why I have a few specific react channels I keep watching because they help me branch out to find new creators to follow.
OMG this. It completely reorganizes my home page algorithm or I get a ton of videos I've already watched. I find that I don't watch videos I may be interested in at the moment because I don't want it flooding my home page with 20 similar videos I'm no longer interested in because I got the answer I was looking for. Searching also sucks because I only get popular content creators, and on mobile, it adds a section of unrelated videos between every 10 or so search related videos.
Does clearing the watch history really work after a long watch time?
The loss of the concept of respectful criticism is definitely a huge issue, but unfortunately making people angry at you is a great way to farm attention, definitely bleeds off the internet to, people just want a reason to be mad as always
Not gonna lie, there's not much to not be mad nowadays.
THANKS COVID
Any form of attention brings in the views, these people are starting to get really desperate, I call majority of them leechers or death eaters! 😡😡
This really isn't a "these days" issue, a lot of people growing up with the Internet just are sort of oblivious to it because they don't read tabloids.
Like, really, the ragebait you see on RUclips and Facebook utilises EXACTLY the same strategies as The Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Star have been using for up to half a century. What's happened is that this rubbish has now gotten its tendrils into social media.
It sort of frustrates me that the hard work people have done fighting back at tabloids over the decades is undone because people want to gloss over it to paint some "things were better in my day" narrative. And it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy really. Things will only become worse because people haven't acknowledged properly the issues of the past, like not acknowledging a wound and later acting like the resulting infection just sprang out of nowhere.
@@thecrispymaster you know what, I never really thought of that, it would be more accurate to say it’s more a long standing society and/or human nature issue than a today thing, I’ll adjust the phrasing (genuinely not sarcastically)
@@thecrispymaster the difference is that with tabloid it's not as easily accesible as youtube, for magazine, tabloid and gossip tv show while still bad you aren't being exposed to it 24/7
I feel like I used to have my next 5 videos I wanted to watch picked from my home page in like a min. Now I just scroll looking for anything interesting for like 10 mins and if I don’t find anything I just go back to an old video.
That is so true, you hit right on the nail for me right there
I've noticed a rise in fake AI "true crime" stories on seemingly bot accounts
Nick Crowley and Nexpo be picking up the slack 😎
I miss the days when clickbait was a video some kid made in their room to harmlessly mislead people for a laugh. Now it's media teams desperately trying to suck your soul out of you and hook you on their content like a drug
This and the absurd ads are exactly what’s wrong with RUclips
The absurd ads and the absurd AMOUNT of ads. It’s disgusting how useless this site has become.
I feel a little robbed, I thought this video was going to be more about Jacksepticeye's arguments about Mr. Beast. LOL thumbnail got me, and it was a good video.
As someone who watches a good amount of youtube, I also dislike how I have to actively search for anything new or interesting. Big channels get promoted, channels I already subscribe to/watch get promoted, but over 50% of that is videos I may have watched a few years back, or even recently.
Reminds me of a video about RUclips kids showing very much stuff not for kids in their thumbnails and content. RUclips has a serious problem with its moderation and allowing hate bait and not safe for life stuff to be on the platform is an injustice to its real content creators and animators who want to show their passion and talent who will get demonitized or banned from mass reporting.
Not to mention the ones involving irl animals. Those ones are absolutely sickening and I just instant report without clicking. I'm too scared to see if those gory thumbnails are genuine or not.
@@4zureSapphire true! That's way I made a playlist to help those small animation creator in hope that I could at least help them to get a bit of views on their video
Great vid. Using Asmon in the thumbnail to talk about ragebait is perfect.
😂
It was also Mr. Beast. YT is a-b-testing whether Asmon or Beast perform better. 😒
He mastered the art of the clickbait..... its a power he shouldn't trifle with....
What's wild is that Asmon got better over time... just for the clickbait to win anyway.
Hypocrisy or paradox? Lol
And to add to this, if you point out that someone's content has turned into constant negativity, people shit on you. Assuming your opinion is opposite of theirs and that you're just mad, or that you don't care about the topic enough, or they just insert some common internet insult because God forbid they have some originality.
Then hate mobs form and people become unable to have an honest conversation about something
Love the video, it's very thought out, but I'm so sleep deprived that I couldn't help keep alt tabbing wondering how I accidentally launched Borderlands 2 with that background music at the start. I legitimately thought I was going mad.
i'm on mobile and thought i was crazy for a second lol
it dawned on me last night, is Mesome a Vtuber?
No, PNGtuber
@JTB-1 thats a sub type of vtuber
A PNGtuber is also a Vtuber
But not all Vtubers are PNGtubers
Cause remember the v just means virtual
Its similar to how CoD is a MOBA
Cause its a Multiplayer Online Battle Area (that acronym is really unspecific in what it means)
@@theirishviking9278 I think terms like "MOBA" do have a kind of connotation that wouldn't match things like CoD, which I view as often more significant than what's technically accurate
@@cinderwolf32 true i just like pointing out how useless that definition of games is
a better one for my point would have been marsupials and mammals
I like that one a lot better!
The borderlands music is just so fitting for this video
thousand cuts?
The implication being that RUclips doesn't want clickbait. I believe it absolutely does want it.
Shorts are a breeding ground for this type of content and ends up hurting shorts
0:37 yooo borderlands 2 menu music! i recognized it instantly
heyguy that ymes that what i said too wehn i heart hat
Damn, the borderlands music was a great choice
Edit: Nevermind, all of the music choices were great
i love that someone else noticed the bl2 music
So happy someone else noticed :)
I think youtube is losing the war on bad content in general, not just clickbait, most of the content on youtube is just reacting nontent, or video essay nontent
I recently had channel growth for a gaming channel, I was extremely happy as I was getting tons of engagements. Now, my videos barely get anything to what they once had going. Went from struggling to grow, I grew with ease but now struggling to get views/support from main majority of my subscribers and I don't even clickbait.
I don't even know on what to actually do now. I'll keep trying but the passion is starting to fade with dread and fear of growing to only get nothing back in return. I have no idea on what's wrong with the modern day audience.
Yea same happened to me around 2019/20 and feel like everyone got hit with lower Viewer ship since around that time (possibly worse)
That borderlands music though....chefs kiss
Thank you for continuing to make content. Your videos gave really helped me remember to take a moment to think and slow down.
I love how you basically did what the Ludwig video says to do, its extremely enjoyable to watch/listen to and was educational. Well played but also great video
9:27 well played good sir well played
Had to like for that, as I was mainly listening to this. Somewhat watching. Deserves a like for this content
100%
Actually made me feel a little guilty but hey. I am subbed. 🤷🏻♂️
@@AdventZZZx He got us good
My talk
it’s times like these i miss jenna marbles the most. she didn’t even have thumbnails, it was just a random unedited still from the video itself
Every time I finish one of your video essays I find myself back on your channel page just marvelling at how amazing and different these videos are to the content I originally came to your channel for. Having quitted destiny a while before you did I hadn't engaged with your channel (or any Destiny related content) in a long time as I didn't want to FOMO myself into a relapse, these new videos however have brought me back after said hiatus and its such a beautiful reunion. I wish you the best of luck in your pivot towards other content, and please keep making such delightful videos. :)
The reality is that as long as social media is algorithmically driven to seek engagement above all other metrics, our online communication will continue to degrade into oblivion.
0:36 borderlands 2 menu music, great choice
@@sicarus1090 was about to come down and say the same thing such a vibe 😂
10:01 okay, but like, _Phineas and Ferb_ unironically is the best show out of the ones you showed.
Glad to see how you're switching content styles for more engaging, critique topics. Love to see more of your style of videos.
You have a really good voice for short-form and long form video essays, would absolutely watch more videos like this!
This is a genuinely good video. Well in depth. You’ve done your research and covered a lot of good topics with plenty of things to back up your statements.
8:06 Reporting videos doesn't work at all.
using the mario bob omb minigame gameplay to illustrate your point gave me such a weird nostalgia
Glitch MENTIONED!!! I love their animations so much and their rise as an indie studio is sooooo nice
11:55 It's not exactly the same, but complaining about content theft while praising a reaction channel is a weird disconnect for me.
@@CerberusPlusOne If you are referring to the Videogamedunkey clip, that isn't a reaction channel. Dunkey has a reaction video on his channel, making fun of other reaction videos.
@@n.holt7 yeah! That's so strange, he only make a spoof reaction video and now he's a reaction channel baffling
@@CerberusPlusOne I suppose it depends how you view reaction channels. I'd argue it falls under fair use, and I think they serve a similar goal to that of Let's Play channels.
People watch let's plays to see the creator react to the game, I think reaction channels are probably in that same boat
The other problem is simply that their priorities are wrong. They might be a bit more effective at fighting this stuff if they stopped singling out specific creators for harassment and mobbing them off the platform for ridiculous bs, and actually worked to make their guidelines and moderation more fair, effective, and easier to work with/understand. They seem to go more after actual creators using clickbait thumbnails than they do bot accounts whose entire content base is clickbait, as you’re talking about.
Hats off for your team to dive into the belly of the beast and flexing that journalism muscle. These are expensive productions and I hope that these efforts pay off in the long run versus gaming content videos.
8:24 this is otherwise known as “rage bait”, majority of people who watch or see these things we all collectively say, rage bait, the best we can do is call it out or walk away, engagement feeds these people money
This was a nice change of video. I'd definitely watch more videos like this.
That Borderlands music is like a warm hug to my wretched soul.
Murder Drones is peak RUclips. I want more of that, not arguments and anger.
its not youtube anymore, it's corporatetube
Yep, you're definitely more than a Destiny Creator. Great vid man. I'll be sticking around for more of your video essays for sure.
man i want to go back when clickbait was only rick astley's song
Honestly I don't understand why people don't curate their pages. There is an option to stop showing specific channels, and poof, that channel will never show up again. Last time I saw genuine click bait was over a year ago
Describing RUclips as Pandora with the Borderlands 2 music was genius.
I like the Borderlands 2 menu music, honestly a nice touch. Great video too
Amazing video that hopefully will spark more discourse/discussion, hopefully it will also teach a lot of people on all the different clickbaits. Also good choice with music, I've noticed you used Zelda, Hollow Knight, and Minecraft. Keep up the great content
Sean was right about a lot of things, but Mr. Beast and the direction youtube has gone in are definitely some big examples for sure..
It might not be a solvable problem, because RUclips exists to make money; and if the best solution for consumers and creatives isn't also the most profitable, then they will continue using a "bad" system until they are fiscally pressured to do so.
that BL2 sound track is so good, fits the video so well man
Sucks as we had something that combated this somewhat *dislike button* cough but big companies and sponsors hated getting dislikes on their videos so it was removed
9:58 my gripe with titles like this is that all the video does is provide a synopsis of an episode with no input or opinion.
so many times i click them, and realise halfway that they just told me an episode of the topic in the same time span that i could have watched in my free time
which would be a bait, to cash engagement by people in the comments to give their opinions and inputs.
I dunno that Dunkey is the best example here since a lot of his content revolves around the concept of being harsh and condescending of other people's art under a -- and I'm sorry for this -- not even particularly thin veneer of parody. Fans of japanese RPGs that watch Dunkey have been mentioned as everything between outright stupid, to incapable of understanding what the concept of "fun" is. Nevermind how the actual creators of that art may feel. It's very easy to forget that there's a butt to every joke when the butt of the joke is always the same and it never includes you. He's also never been shy from saying he does that specifically to rile that demographic up, at which point how is that any different from your garden variety ragebait nonsense?
I think at some point we either accept that someone's going to be hurt in the process of content creation and that you are obligated to cater to people's rage in order to get big on this platform, or we strive to filter out people whose content necessitates hurting someone for the amusement of somebody else.
12:00 Glitch is an alt account of SMG4, who had been uploading since 2009 and had a storyline since 2011.
Idk why you're saying new when they've been on the platform for 13 years and have experience as an OG youtuber.
Loving your transition out of Destiny content. I hope the quality keeps going up and up like these last two videos!
I also like to make sure to respect the fact that there are real people behind the screen. It’s easy to forget that.
I'm staying with my 61 year old mother for a bit and I constantly hear her listening to ai videos
The search functionality sucks today too. It will show you a handful of results and then just start showing random stuff it recommends. RUclips used to be such a great place to find really specific instructional videos and stuff but now it's a struggle to find useful stuff.
For me, it's the "got owned/destroyed/annihilated" videos that definitely aren't that, or the thumbnails that include someone making some stupid face - and yes, that includes some of my favorite D2 content creators.
I LOVE the direction with this channel, love to see that your recovering from your addiction
Honestly this is why I've started to watch smaller channels, versus the big ones that need to play the game just to stay afloat.
love the video essays keep em up
Metal Gear Solid 2 predicted this.
What I like about Daily Dose Of Internet is that the first video they show is from the thumbnail and title, so you don't have to wait for the whole duration to get what's going on. You don't feel cheated
0:44 Hold up, Idkhow and Caravan palace!? W music choices.
Unlike Twitter, I do understand the need for a need an algorithm here, but man I just miss the internet as it was 10 years ago.
Too be fair. Jack is part of the problem about people fighting. He started taking up dumb talking points from games media like resident evil being racist.
RUclips is fixing clickbait with 5 min adds, people will become more selective of what they watch
Buzz word overuse, like "worst, best, most, how to get/make, if I could, etc."
Thanks. To. MrBeast.
@@SN57ONE bait used to be believable
you threw that bl2 song in at the start and i had to check if my game was open for a second lmao
I miss old RUclips man...
ragebait trend era is the WORST to exist, i cannot wait until it is no longer the best way to garner viewers
RUclips shorts are becoming a cesspool of bad content. Between every other scroll being an ad for adult content websites (not sure how that works since I mostly watch gaming and news based content) and repeat green screen videos it's just bad.
Suggestion: stop watching shorts entirely! If you need a push to do this, and if you're tech savvy and comfortable with getting your hands dirty, search "revanced manager"
The one guy who had "PEDO" in the thumbnail yet never talked about it:
“You won’t even be able to die right”
-Pyrocynical
i mean maybe you could argue that youtube should raise the line limit before a read more is set, but i feel like its pretty rreasonable as-is. either you put a character limit on comments, or you put a readmore on long comments, otherwise itd be a lot more annoying to scroll through a comment section. having character limits is more significant for full on social media posts, rather than the comments on those posts.
I don't know if it's because I'm highly critical or because I'm autistic and my mind works differently, but the best performing thumbnails and titles really put me off. Especially when there's someone's face looking surprised. UGH. I actively tell RUclips "Don't recommend this channel".
One of my favourite RUclipsrs, Debug Your Brain, who makes excellent videos about psychology and changing minds... I DESPISE his thumbnails and titles.
It's stupid, RUclips is making its job harder by not at all paying attention to the stuff I'm actually viewing and giving me things it thinks I want to watch. I want to watch things I want to watch, not things someone else is watching.
Thank you for bringing this up TDT, I respect you greatly
Hollow Knight!! Thought the music was in my head, as I'm watching this video just after playing it!
I don’t know how long this is already going on. But recently I’ve been noticing that even some of the newer RUclipsrs I’ve subscribed to are haunt thumbnails that feel like clickbait. Even the more serious ones. More of these RUclipsrs are showing their defend with the surprised face.
It would be so ironic if the thumbnail itself was clickbait
My god .. that borderlands music didnt even recognize it at first
And yeah youtube is going down hill a fair bit
10:28 check out that tongue twister
I clicked on this video absentmindedly, thinking this was some video essay channel. I did not expect TDT.
youtube isn't losing! that would imply they cared in the first place. all they want is more money.
they might claim to be against clickbait but in reality they love it, means more ad rev for them.
You've got a great voice for narration, I think this niche suits you nicely!
11:30 that sentiment is so real i never know what game hes playing 9 times out of 10 but just him is enough to have we watching
its why i still watch scott the woz or ken and even you, your human expression feels so real, mrbeast just feels uncanny, he absolutely does not mean any emotion he puts through
love your videos man thank you
Has anyone else noticed that most of gun youtubers dont clickbait. Not sure why that is but i think its cool
"youtube is old enough to attend college"
me, born a year earlier, gettig a bachelor degree this year: \_(-_-)_/
👍 for Mario 64 DS Minigame Footage.
Remember when clickbait was when you would click on something, and it was rick astely? I miss those days. Some got genuine laughs out of me