The two big arrows pointing to the awnings, the things the video are about and that are in the title? Huh?
Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months agoNo. And I literally see two fat arrows in the thumbnail. That'd be an instant block if that would land on my YT page.
guy8748@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
So? It's still a clickbait tactic, same with the idiotically capitalized words a lot of channels use, or the shocked faces. Just because you are unaware of the psychological manipulation of clickbait tactics, does not mean this goes for everyone.
guy8748@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno what to tell you it’s by definition not clickbait. You could argue that it’s teasing or engagement baiting I guess but it isn’t clickbait.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
You could argue that it's teasing or engagement baiting I guess but it isn't clickbait.
No. Engagement baiting is, for example, purposefully stating a wrong fact or pleading people to write comments in other ways, like wanting to talk about the contents of the video while having no intention to actually read any comments, let alone talk to anyone.
Any element that is enticing you to make you click on a video, like an obtuse headline, or idiotic shocked faces, or arrows / circles / boxes of various colors, are all clickbait tactics.
Freefall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am getting more of a chuckle out of the person’s “I have made up my mind based on nonsense and no amount of real information will change it!!”
That is a wild stance.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You shouldn’t judge a channel purely by thumbnail. Everyone else in this thread can attest to the high quality of his videos.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
I just generally have an aversion towards clickbait of any kind to the point where I can't stand any video / channel using it. It's cheap and manipulative and everyone supporting such shady tactics is someone I don't want to associate with in any form.