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DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
DeArrow extension for YouTube that makes thumbnails bearable
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Love the idea, but just to be the devil's advocate, I think it will just mask garbage videos. Currently, the clickbait thumbnails and titles are an indicator to blacklist a channel, without having to waste time watching it.
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Unfortunately because of the way Youtube's algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don't play the game.
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Yeah, even good ones do it.
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Got any examples? I don't recall any actually quality and worthwhile channels that still use those dumb thumbnails.
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Veritasium, he even has a video crunching the numbers as an explanation why he has to doit
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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
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Yeah, that one I stopped hating clickbait so much after watching it, trying to become immune to it
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LTT and SmarterEveryDay to name two.
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All those channels in the screenshot in this post.
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If you look at the DeArrow website and browser extension pages, I made sure to only use high quality channels as examples (Tom Scott, CGP Grey) to demonstrate how far reaching the sensationalism problem is.
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Tom Scott's thumbnails aren't that bad IMO, they're pretty minimal in comparison to some other channels.
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But they are so much worse than they were 6 months ago. He's gone and ruined all of the old ones too with arrows and more deceptive titles.
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CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he's just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.
For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled "How machines like ChatGPT learn" - despite coming out before GPT.
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Pretty much every successful YouTube channel edits titles. It's just part of the algorithm game now. You will often see videos cycle through several different titles shortly after release.
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You have to blame YouTube and the people who click those garbage thumbnails
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yep.... that one is just rediculus
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The Real Engineering video used as an example here is excellent.
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