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Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams by jjoonathan on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:32PM (#29233058)
Clickbait is bad enough without removing one of the last few tools left in the arsenal to fight it.
Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams by oriki on Monday November 15, 2021 @05:02PM (#29233420)
I feel like we have different definitions as to what clickbait is - when I see a clickbait video, I can simply identify it by it's title and thumbnail, I've never needed to look at the like:dislike ratio to confirm that it's clickbait. What kind of videos do you find as clickbait?
Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams by jjoonathan on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:03PM (#29235795)
An interview where they spend 30 minutes off-subject and 1 minute on-subject. A tutorial with 10 minutes of detailed explanation and a "now draw the owl" step buried 3/4 of the way through. A thumbnail that promises a level of complexity, sophistication, or accomplishment that winds up never actually happening in the video.

Content farms aren't the only ones in the clickbait game these days.