• helenslunchEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Unfortunately this is just the way it is on YT now. Post clickbait thumbnails, or miss out on hundreds of thousands of views. Because that’s the way YT likes it. They don’t want to positively weight long-term high-quality content, they want to promote clickbait.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.

      Do they go back and change thumbnails after a while? LTT does focus on a lot of evergreen content as well.

      • helenslunchEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        That’s the way that yields the longest combined watch time from the audience.

        No, that would be rewarding creators with a long history of producing high quality content.

        • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          YouTube gives a b testing for YouTubers based on watch time, so they can tune their thumbnails to the one that gets the most watch time. The audience doesn’t always know the history of the chanel, they need to go off the thumbnail.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      10 days ago

      If someone cares about their view count then you shouldn’t give their content your time of day

      • helenslunchEnglish
        71·
        10 days ago

        Quite the opposite. If they didn’t care about the view count the content wouldn’t exist in the first place. No one makes content with the intention of no one watching it, and they certainly don’t make high quality content that requires a team of people and expensive equipment.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
          61·
          10 days ago

          They make them because it’s fun/they are passionate

          And that makes them higher quality

          • helenslunchEnglish
            5·
            10 days ago

            At a bare minimum they make them because they’re passionate about sharing with others. In which case they care about the view count. Once again, no one makes a video and uploads it to a video-sharing platform and doesn’t care who watches it.

            Having the time and money to dedicate to making high quality content makes them higher quality. If they have to work a 9-5 doing something else, and they record everything on a Galaxy S4 because they have no money, it’s bound to be lower quality or just non-existent.

            • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
              32·
              10 days ago

              You need to spend more time around small channels

              LTT is a good example of how what you’re saying is bullshit. All the money in the world but they’re still tech illiterate people making tech videos

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            Dude, this isn’t the Youtube of 2006 anymore.

            Content creating, whether for TV, Radio, or Internet is a job.