host0toTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·1 year agoedit-21 year agoDeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable(i.imgur.com)imagearrow-up181arrow-down10message-square69file-textfedilink
arrow-up181arrow-down1imageDeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable(i.imgur.com)host0toTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·1 year agoedit-21 year agomessage-square69file-textfedilink
minus-squareUltravioletEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkUnfortunately because of the way Youtube’s algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don’t play the game.
minus-squareR0cket_M00seEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkYeah, even good ones do it.
minus-squared3Xt3rEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkGot any examples? I don’t recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.
minus-squareBuiltWithStolenPartsEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkLTT and SmarterEveryDay to name two.
minus-squaresquiloxEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agoedit-21 year agolinkfedilinkVeritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit
minus-squareXaeroDegreazEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agoedit-21 year agolinkfedilinkDo you have a link to the video? I casually skimmed through his video list for the past year or so, but none of the titles jumped out at me for this. Could also be a good example of why this extension sounds cool haha Edit: Found it just a few more videos below here I stopped haha. “Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective” https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng
minus-squaresquiloxEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkYeah, that one I stopped hating clickbait so much after watching it, trying to become immune to it
minus-squareDouble_AEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·1 year agolinkfedilinkAll those channels in the screenshot in this post.
Unfortunately because of the way Youtube’s algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don’t play the game.
Yeah, even good ones do it.
Got any examples? I don’t recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.
LTT and SmarterEveryDay to name two.
Veritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit
Do you have a link to the video? I casually skimmed through his video list for the past year or so, but none of the titles jumped out at me for this.
Could also be a good example of why this extension sounds cool haha
Edit: Found it just a few more videos below here I stopped haha. “Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective” https://youtu.be/S2xHZPH5Sng
Yeah, that one I stopped hating clickbait so much after watching it, trying to become immune to it
All those channels in the screenshot in this post.