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YouTube Clickbait Thumbnails (Painfully Tryhard Edition)

Discussion in 'Internet Clips, Videos, Etc.' started by Galhox Ladyankles, Aug 31, 2017.

  1. Wordsworth

    Wordsworth BREAKING NEWS AT THIS HOUR

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    No question mark in the thumb (the one in the title doesn't count) or even a microscopic "what if". Oh, 1.5M views. Of course.
     
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  2. Ms. Mowz

    Ms. Mowz My likes mean absolutely nothing!

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    I heard Oneyplays talk about this one, and just had to look it up because I didn't think MatPat would be this shameless in his clickbait, but...
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    (I have a feeling he censored that because YouTube demonitizes videos that mention corona, and not because anyone called him out on this. Honestly makes this even worse, TBH.)
     
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  3. Wordsworth

    Wordsworth BREAKING NEWS AT THIS HOUR

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    I used to watch these guys years and years ago but lost interest when they succumbed to the worst aspects of YouTube.



    That obnoxious "OH GET OVER IT!" is proof I'm not missing anything.
     
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  4. Ms. Mowz

    Ms. Mowz My likes mean absolutely nothing!

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    This just in, MatPat continues to have no shame in embracing the absolute worst aspect of YouTube. In other news, water is wet.
     
  5. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    What isn't demonetized by YT?

    Seems a video would have to be the most bland, completely inoffensive thing to get monetized.

    (and then it could be demonetized for being too boring)
     
  6. John_doe26

    John_doe26 There was once a time when everything was fine

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    Just putting these here...



     
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  7. Cyan

    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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    The ones that showed up on FP for me today.
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    I'm not going to watch any of these but they'll probably sit in my recommended for two weeks anyways.
     
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    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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  9. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    I always click "don't recommend this channel" when it comes to politics or news channels.
     
  10. Cyan

    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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    Which of my videos are politics or news? (Except grizzly bear guy but that thumbnail made me chuckle.) Hair youtuber reacting to hair, meme youtuber reacting to bad memes, fashion youtuber talking about fashion company, and random youtuber reacting to makeup fails.

    TBH for the most part I hate reaction videos. :/
     
  11. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    Seems YT really likes "MrBeast" and "SSSniperWolf" reaction videos.
     
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  12. Cirno

    Cirno fren

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    this is my desktop wallpaper
     
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  13. c-no

    c-no Dead Meme Internet Man

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    YT knows how many simps SSSniperWolf and MrBeast has so of course it'll make sure you watch their content one way or another though that's only from seeing them pop up without being logged in.

    As for my own share in seeing clickbait thumbnails, I don't even remember the name of the channel but I remember the thumbnails used for a video from the Cuphead DLC was cheesecake shit. Of course since Youtube can autoplay a part of the video in the thumbnail to show the footage, a quick glance from that reminded me that it was indeed nothing but just clickbait of some guy playing Cuphead. The one thing to top him though are Unreal engine "remake trailers" and I can remember one of them thanks to a Youtuber I watch. Case in point for the "remake trailer" clickbait without linking the videos:
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    A Youtuber I watch by the name of Gmanlives noted how these trailers are crap because the author actually just uses Unreal engine store assets that don't even match the atmosphere and he noted the thing that's first off would be the thumbnails. Clicking into these videos just ends up showing one how crap they actually are. Anyone that's played Silent Hill would know that the city of Moscow or Pripyat is nowhere within the East Coast of the US nor did Silent Hill have actual zombies screaming straight out of COD's Nazi Zombies. What doesn't help further is that the models are either ripped from an already existing game or they aren't even really fitting for the character. The guy that does these fake trailer videos even tried to compare his remake to an already existing game and as far as thumbnails go, I gotta give him credit in knowing just how bad his "attempt" is without even looking into it.

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    Real nice job he did in his "remake trailer" having the protagonist look like middle aged chav or gopnik rather than having him look like an American teen.
     
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  14. John_doe26

    John_doe26 There was once a time when everything was fine

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