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From the maker of Sponsor Block, Dearrow is crowd sourced video titles and thumbnails (screen caps from video). Some say they want to see the click bait to filter out those channel, which is fair. On the other hand a lot of good channels have to do it to play the algorithm or they’ll get buried into oblivion.
General rule, something that has at least two from each category below is likely to be clickbait.
Thumbnail
- Bright and many colours
- Large arrows and circles
- Exaggerated face (shocked, raging, crying)
- Thick outlines
Title
- Title ends in ?!
- Title is all caps
- Title is in the vein of “[this, vague undefined thing] will shock you”
- Title Has Some Words Initially Capitalised
- Title says something scandalous
Video content
- Video is 10 minutes long (ad revenue)
- Boobs (not necessarily)
- 100k+ views or almost none
- Only the last few min of the video contain the actual content
- It’s one of those stupid ‘reaction to’ videos, just my personal taste. I’m not watching a show to see your fake reaction, I’m watching a show because I want to see a show.
I don’t have a de-clickbaiter for the reason that I want to be able to recognise clickbait and not click on it.
Thanks Grok
Now kys Grok
I’m pretty sure 10 min videos are now bad for the current YouTube algorithm. The videos need to be like a half hour, or 3 minutes.
Clickbait is going too far. I clicked a recommended video the other week. It was a professional power lifter pretending to be a janitor to elicit reactions as he swept weights aside like nothing was there. The thumbnail was about a black man raging at the power lifter for misleading him.
My first thought was “this can’t be real. There’s no chance anyone reacted that way to minor chicanery.” Sure enough, the black dude was incredibly nice. The power lifter put up a racial stereotype with the guy’s face attached solely to get views. What if someone he knew saw the thumbnail and started wondering about him? The modern internet is a dumpster fire and I hate it.
Frustrating experience for me. It used to work, I got to see the light, but now has been totally broken on my machine for a while, idk what gives.
No, I don’t use any google services on my computer. That does seem appealing, if I ever decide to start, though. Bookmarked
tbf, that race baity clickbait is well over a decade old at this point. Soon after cheap viral videos became a thing, there were “social experiments” and “prank” videos that did not give a fuck about respecting other people.
I certainly remember when it really ramped up. I recall a “prankster” a little over 10 years ago who went to jail for going to “the hood” with a mystery package that he implied held a bomb. People online have been terrible for a long while, but this nonsense wasn’t recommended to me for several years. I can only imagine what might have spurred the algorithm to believe that race baiting was worth recommending.
As an aside, trump ruining the internet further wasn’t on my bingo card.
ppl should realise entertainment is often fiction. if seeing a thumbnail of a man being angry makes you dislike him irl, i hope you never see any movie posters with angry people
probably this channel https://www.youtube.com/@vladimirfitness/videos if you look at the videos thumbnails, the latest video is a white dude “raging”
That’s the guy. And it looks like he changes his thumbnails and titles over time. At the time, it was solely the (currently) $200 video with an incendiary title.
Those moments when you realise you were baited by a master baiter… :(
oh boy the master bait
(link is sfw)
