Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective" video.

  1. I passed over the first Veritasium video I was recommended because my brain connected the channel name with some channels I had recently been duped by that also had "latin-esque" names. But the second time one was recommended, I watched, and watched some more, and through this channel got into Steve Mould, and through Steve got into Matt Parker. Another channel that got recommended to me from watching Veritasium was Xyla Foxlin, from which I started watching Allen Pan, who may also have been recommended because I watched Kyle Hill (the Mythbusters 2 competition link). - The recommendation engine is sometimes good, but more than half the time recommends things I don't care about, or channels I actively hate. If YouTube never recommends a Joe Rogan video to me again, I might die happy.
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  2. Heck, even news organiztions are engaging in clickbait. The person who writes the article, may have a well researched and neutral assessment of facts. Then someone else comes along and slaps an eye-catching headline on the story to "pull in the views" while that headline often misrepresents what the article is about. - Then follow-on lazy news sites will just disseminate the intent of the headline without including the actual facts. And like a bad game of telephone, it gets muddier with each step. And then we get stories like, "Veterans kicked out of hotel to make room for the homeless!" which was all a lie, and even the first reporter(s) did ZERO research to see if it was true.
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  3. Another one I see a lot is "... that [organization/person/government] doesn't want you to know!"
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  4. For me, the title only gets the first and maybe second video watched. After that, if I find the presentation, presenter and topics interesting and not bull(droppings) I stop caring so much about the thumbnail and title, and just watch whatever they put out. There are many channels that I have dropped all interest in within the first minute of a video, but there are some that I will click thumbs-up before I even start watching (LockPickingLawyer is one).
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  5. It could be worse than not getting all of the clicks. You could get your content demonetized for telling the truth about clickbait fake science channels, like Kyle Hill is now dealing with. - Oh, and regarding your asteroids video, I think I have seen that first image you used on several pseudo-science mis- and dis-information sites as one of their thumbnail images.
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