• beckerist@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      example 1…we didn’t get much of a budget until our team posted the videos with a thumbnail with their mouths open

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        I’m sorry but I find this deeply comic and I can’t stop giggle

        At the same time, clickbait has always existed. There’s a reason trash emerged from tv to become his own subgenre

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          The DeArrow extension “fixes” thumbnails on Youtube to make them less clickbaity. Sadly content makers have to do it if they want the blessings of the algorithm god.