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• My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s funny because it’s true.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I know it’s a minor thing, but “YouTube face” about me so much. DeArrow is a godsend…

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• justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  a YouTuber I’m following started with this some time ago. somebody asked him what’s suddenly with the goofy faces and he explained how he made a couple of experiments and those thumbnails always caused higher viewer numbers… this stuff is seriously letting me doubt humanity as a whole. i don’t blame him at all, he is making a living with it. but I’m seriously concerned about the average consumer…

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  • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The view count was likely children. Look at cereal boxes. Look at what’s targeting kids and what’s targeting adults. Take that, apply it TicTok/YouTube/whatever. The higher view count was kids.

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  • foo@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Veritasium did a video all about this. I never figured out why he delivered all the dialogue standing on a ladder being blinded by a projector, but it’s interesting anyway.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    geez, those are a lot of comments… i should have mentioned that i suffer from adhd, so please be patient with me reading it at some point.

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  • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Random goofy faces where the person just does the same face everywhere is terrible, but if it’s a channel I know is serious about what they do (not necessarily serious as in never make a funny), I can understand that putting on an appropriate face for the content does send an easily understood message about what kind of video it is just by scrolling quickly. It’s not a bad thing to tell if it’s going to be a complaint video or a happy news video and the likes. Of course, the face value drops pretty quickly if it’s a random channel I’ve never seen, because I don’t know how relevant it really is and if that random person’s alleged feelings will inform what I can expect to feel in that video, or if it’s just random engagement bait that I don’t resonate with.

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• M137@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sigh - unzips

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