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Does anyone else notice the infuriating trend of people renaming youtube videos and swapping thumbnails? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's getting ridiculous. There's one youtuber that swapped the thumbnail 4 times this week just to make people look at it again and think it was a different video. The worst part is that it sort of works, I keep looking at it then remembering I saw something very similar from the same channel name yesterday.

I hate this so damn much.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (5 children)

They're not trying to trick people into re-watching videos they've already seen. YouTube generally does a pretty good job of not recommending those videos anyway. They're simply testing which thumbnail/title brings the most traffic. It might seem petty but it makes a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I loved old YouTube, these days i hardly go so maybe I'm not getting a good perspective but it seems every thumbnail is exactly the same, some brightly colored photo of a 20-something staring off camera with a comically open mouth. Am i missing something?

[–] odigo2020 4 points 4 months ago

Not missing anything, that's just the current style that gets the most views. It'll eventually change to something different and everyone will adopt that new style for a while.

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