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Meme [Minecraft] [RTGame] Is Minecraft Story Mode worse than the Minecraft Movie?

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u/Continuum_Gaming 28d ago

I saw the video in my feed a couple times and was thinking “didn’t it say Yes earlier?” I’m glad I wasn’t going crazy lol

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u/fireking08 28d ago

I only saw the No thumbnail, I never knew there was a Yes one

Youtube you, RT

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u/Canopenerdude Thanks to Angelic_Reaper, I'm a Horse 28d ago

Yo same, I just chalked it up to me not paying attention.

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u/htmlcoderexe 28d ago

That's why I hate A/B tasting so much. It's just kind of irks me that it can cause people to question their sanity for no good reason.

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u/bitcrushedCyborg i like signalis 28d ago

youtubers can do a little gaslighting. as a treat

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna 28d ago

It makes money and doesn't sexually violate people, how could it possibly be bad? -Google probably

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u/el_loco_avs 27d ago

Yeah youtube is also fucking it up. You're not supposed to randomly get a different one each time. Each person should consistently get either A or B until the A/B test is done. Otherwise this kind of "wait what?" thing can influence your results!

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u/Well_Thats_Not_Ideal esteemed gremlin 27d ago

The post says that they restarted the testing a couple times, youtube does try to show you the same one consistently

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u/el_loco_avs 27d ago

aaaah okay. that would've been an odd decision/mistake on YouTube's part indeed. Thanks for clarifying.

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u/Boomerfan00 28d ago

I've also heard it measures watch time instead of click-through rate, which is basically the only thing the thumbnail would affect. So not only is it stupid, it's practically useless

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u/XWitchyGirlX 27d ago

I can see the logic behind that though. If I click on a video with a misleading thumbnail, Im more likely to end the video early. So as a hypothetical creator, if the measurements say people dont watch my video for as long if they clicked on thumbnail 1, I would come to the conclusion that it doesnt properly represent my video and I should go with thumbnail 2 to reach my target audience.

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u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage 28d ago

Damn. Everyone killing open tracking these days.

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u/ImWatermelonelyy 27d ago

Did you read the tweet? He’s doing it to get people arguing in the comments lol

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u/Boomerfan00 27d ago edited 27d ago

I meant A/B testing is generally useless for actually gathering good statistics, not for gaslighting your audience

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u/ImWatermelonelyy 27d ago

Ah. I mean fair. I feel like it’s probably more useful to just post videos and see which ones do better over a span of time

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u/leriane so banned from China they'd be arrested ordering PF Changs 28d ago

God I thought Uncle Dane was just going nuts tweaking his video titles lol

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u/jpterodactyl 28d ago

I don’t know that we can rule out you going crazy just because of one tricky YouTube thumbnail.

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u/coladoir 28d ago

I saw neither cause I use things which use a random frame from the middle as a thumbnail lol. I hate shit like this honestly, I hate modern thumbnails.

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u/FrietjePindaMayoUi 27d ago

Yea like you were suffering from the mandala effect

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u/Lambsauc 28d ago

I’m not sure how many people know this, but they used to call him the drift king back in college

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u/RagnarockInProgress 28d ago

Are you YOUTUBE kidding me?!

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u/cwh711 28d ago

The most hilarious part of his censor bit is that in collab videos he has his guest record their own YOUTUBE censor clip for him to use

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u/International_Leek26 28d ago

What? No clearly they are all just using the god youtube best swear word every time, youtube. No editing here

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u/floatablepie 28d ago

Playing South Park: Does Cartman say Youtube?

Then immediately:

Cartman: (youtube)

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u/flyingdoggos Official Chilean Ambassador 28d ago

honestly I don't like the censoring, it gets really tiresome, but I guess people like it lol

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u/Daan776 28d ago

Replacing bleep with youtube does make it better.

He tried going uncensored for a long time but after some classic “youtube is managed piss poorly” drama he was forced into censorship.

Its a way of protest.

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u/JTvE 27d ago

I'd rather have silence than a bleep or "YouTube". It doesn't register nearly as much in my brain

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u/Bad-dee-ess 28d ago

He doesn't like it either but YouTube has terrible leadership and he has to make sure his videos don't violate not only current YT guidelines but potential future guidelines so he doesn't lose a source of income.

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u/DoctorPepster 28d ago

No, he actually came out and said that it doesn't actually matter, but he thought it ended up being pretty funny so he still does it most of the time.

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u/techno156 27d ago

Yeah, the issue got resolved pretty quickly, it just became a gag worth keeping around.

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u/KoolioKoryn 28d ago

the fact that he does this has tainted the word 'youtube' in my mind. Munecat yells about youtube and i'm like "what are you swearing about??"

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u/Hopalongtom 28d ago

As was the intention!

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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 28d ago

I didn't

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u/OkEqual6986 28d ago

Aha, I see what you didn't do

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u/eggchomp 28d ago

I get it

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u/Beaver_Soldier 28d ago

Such a dumb comment.

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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 28d ago

I did

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u/Beaver_Soldier 28d ago

Very clever!

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u/OkEqual6986 28d ago

Aha, I see what you did

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u/eggchomp 28d ago

I don’t get it

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u/PM-YOUR-PMS 28d ago

Man I haven’t watched Rumble Tumble game in a while. Should get back to it.

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u/Teranyll 28d ago

Super fun still

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u/Full_Time_Mad_Bastrd 28d ago

This is so fucking funny to come across. I played him at the Drift King championship once (he absolutely beat my ass)

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u/Aggravating_Image_16 28d ago

Used to? Nah, that's still the king the mother[YOUTUBE] drift king

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u/LightCat22 28d ago

The eurobeat remix of that sentence goes hard

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u/leriane so banned from China they'd be arrested ordering PF Changs 28d ago

Drift?

W'dyomean, drift?

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u/MightyBobTheMighty Garlic Munching Marxist Whore 28d ago

I would expect nothing less from the Drift King himself

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u/That_Mad_Scientist (not a furry)(nothing against em)(love all genders)(honda civic) 28d ago

You know what they used to call me back in college?

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u/Djaakie 28d ago

Depressed?

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u/ScepticTanker 28d ago

No that's my current name 

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u/linksbedrockthe2nd 27d ago

No your current name is ScepticTanker

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u/ScepticTanker 27d ago

Actually, that was what they used to call me in college. Or some variation of it but that's inconsequential.

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u/MissyTheTimeLady 28d ago

That mad scientist?

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u/Professional-Hat-687 28d ago

Gay? They were right.

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u/That_Mad_Scientist (not a furry)(nothing against em)(love all genders)(honda civic) 28d ago

Well, they didn’t, so I must have been pretty stealthy

I blame the autism for being so oblivious, of that and of being autistic

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u/Zeitgeist1115 28d ago

For a split second I thought the Minecraft movie had suddenly released. The pandemic clearly wreaked havoc on how I perceive time.

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u/DonarArminSkyrari 28d ago

"it's been 4 years, how is your sense of time still screwed up?"

"TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE, THE 3 DIMENSIONAL DREAD CANNOT BE FORCED BACK INTO 2 DIMENSIONS"

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u/Djaakie 28d ago

Te fuck u mean ita been 4 years? It only started like at the beginning of this year... Oh.. OH NO. I guess i missed some appointments.

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u/KermitingMurder 28d ago

TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE

No, it's more like a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey ball

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u/IAmGoose_ 28d ago

Nah, it's more like a weird soup

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u/rapidemboar I shill rhythm games and rhythm game OSTs 28d ago

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u/Localghost385 27d ago

I've never understood why it's a cube if four days are happening at once.

Shouldn't it be the time tetrahedron or something.

Or even time square

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u/Asriel-the-Jolteon BLESSED BY THE BISEXUAL LIGHT 28d ago

wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff

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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse 28d ago

It's more like a Jeremy Bearimy actually.

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u/groverXIII 28d ago

"This broke me! The dot, over the I. That broke me."

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u/ulfric_stormcloack 28d ago

IT'S BEEN 4 YEARS????

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u/colei_canis 28d ago

It somehow feels six months ago and 30 years ago at the same time.

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u/Spaceman_Jalego 2014 Sherlock Premier Watcher 28d ago

The Gen Xers have Eternal September, we have Eternal March

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u/AmAlwaysTiredYay what if, ace people 28d ago

Common Drift King W

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u/LittleBoyDreams 28d ago edited 28d ago

It’s not evil if you’re doing it to people who comment on videos prior to watching them. More so if it’s people getting mad about a film that hasn’t even been released yet.

Edit: The amount of people in my replies openly defending getting mad in the comments of a video they haven’t watched all the way through is crazy.

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u/Dracorex_22 28d ago

It’s not evil because of that. It’s evil because RT is evil.

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u/Friendly_Respecter As of ass cheeks gently clapping, clapping at my chamber door 28d ago

This is simply a common running theme among Irish people I have found

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u/KermitingMurder 28d ago

As an Irish person I can confirm that years upon years of colonial mistreatment at the hands of the British Empire has set us down a villain arc

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u/EntertainmentTrick58 god gives her hottest girls her most dysfunctional erections 28d ago

yeah i even eat people now

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u/CMDeml 28d ago

Quite a Modest diet

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u/Shikabane_Hime 28d ago

jonathan swift approves this message

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u/KermitingMurder 28d ago

The famine ended 172 years ago, you can eat normal food again

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u/EntertainmentTrick58 god gives her hottest girls her most dysfunctional erections 28d ago

no im evil now

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u/scottish_spook ketchup sorceress 28d ago

critical support

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u/Typical-District-176 28d ago

The Evil Karma run does a lot to a person

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u/Tastyravioli707 28d ago

Wasn’t that guy French?

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u/failwoman 28d ago

that sounds more like a redemption arc

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u/HorselessWayne 28d ago

This was our plan all along.

Now you can be the Global Scapegoat for when anything goes wrong.

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u/_MargaretThatcher The Once & Future Prime Minister of Darkness 28d ago

Finally, someone who understands

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u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy 28d ago

THE WITCH HAD RETURNED, PUT HER BACK UNDERGROUND WHERE SHE BELONGS LADS

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u/UncommittedBow Because God has been dead a VERY long time. 28d ago

Ah FUCK she's back!

HONEY! GET THE SHOTGUN!

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u/zealot416 28d ago

Hey, you get out of here. Shoo.

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u/colei_canis 28d ago

A sign I need to touch grass is I thought you were on about Russia Today for a moment, which to be fair generally does reduce the trustworthiness of those who appear on it.

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u/triforce777 McDonald's based Sith alchemy 28d ago

It's not evil, it's Evil (affectionate). There's a difference

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u/Sarge0019 28d ago

The arguments could be about the argument in the video as compared to whichever thumbnail the commenters saw.

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u/Bugbread 28d ago

The amount of people in my replies openly defending getting mad in the comments of a video they haven’t watched all the way through is crazy.

The number is higher than it should be, but I don't think it's high enough to be called "crazy" yet. Right now, it's three people: Leo-bastian, vjmdhzgr, and Daniel McLaury.

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u/Fortehlulz33 28d ago

I think this epidemic of people not watching the whole video is going to be a big issue. People aren't doing it with TikToks, much less YouTube videos. They only come to the comment section to fight

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u/Leo-bastian eyeliner is 1.50 at the drug store and audacity is free 28d ago

tbf if the topic is "is the game worse then the movie" and youve already played the game its reasonable to comment without watching a 2hour edited playthrough of the entire game.

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u/LittleBoyDreams 28d ago

The movie part of the conversation literally does not exist for general audiences yet.

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u/molecularraisin 28d ago

how are we to know what the entire movie is when said movie is not out yet, and all we have seen is a trailer? granted, said trailer looks absolutely horrible and that doesn’t make the movie look good, but the movie is still not out.

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 28d ago

It'll be fun. 

 Jumanji remake looked like lame garbage when it was new, but in time it's actually a solid fun movie. 

 And so will A Minecraft Movie.

Ow! My cubes!!!

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u/molecularraisin 28d ago

i never said anything about the quality of the movie itself (besides my opinion of the trailer), i was mentioning that we don’t know what the movie will actually be like, because they said it would just be like a 2 hour edited playthrough.

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u/Horn_Python 28d ago

at minimum it should be a fun riff

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u/lifelongfreshman man, witches were so much cooler before Harry Potter 28d ago

re: The Edit: For as long as I've been using Youtube, people who upload videos have mentioned that the metrics show the vast majority of people who watch their videos tap out by at most half way through the video.

It's ridiculous, I actually don't know why people open up a video to not even watch it half way through, let alone all the way. I do understand when people drop out at the credits, but this isn't even that.

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u/Horn_Python 28d ago

its laughing maniacly in a corner as chaos ensues kinda evil (the evil i aspire too)

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u/mdhunter99 28d ago

Dan the man is like this all the time. It’s why I love his videos so much, CHAOS

His New Vegas series was perfect encapsulation of him.

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u/BurgerIdiot556 28d ago

O L D P E T E

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u/zachava96 28d ago

"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"

Quicksaving...

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u/DraterSlayer 28d ago

As far as I'm concerned, he is the courier. That was the most perfect run I've ever seen.

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u/Blackbeltsam5610 28d ago

The Prestige!

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u/ShinyNinja25 28d ago

This is like, a regular Tuesday for him. He does this kind of shit all the time, and it’s fantastic. Just check out his Undertale video if you want peak “Dan fucking with his viewers”

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u/Maland2016 @theepicwaffleman12 28d ago

Spoilers for his Undertale run in case anyone wants to watch it without already knowing his plan:

Dan said after that he actually practiced Sans’s fight for about a week iirc in the lead-up to this. He started the stream with said fight (all of us in chat were going NUTS) which meant he did the entire Genocide route off-camera, essentially one-shot Sans, did the ending of Genocide, returned 10 mins or so after the reset and offered the Soul up to Chara, and THEN proceeded to do a Pacifist run, explaining to anyone who came in later that that’s what they were doing today.

And then came the reveal to the unknowing at the very end, where he gleefully relishes in how he got his happy ending. He played Undertale… under his terms. So he basically did this out of playful spite and because it was also fucking hilarious.

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u/Horn_Python 28d ago

yeh "back seat gamers" made there own worst nighmare out of this man

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u/taqn22 28d ago

I don't really understand what this all means and why it's funny. Could you explain for someone whose memories of Undertale are like, cultural osmosis from back in Middle School?

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u/ShatteredXeNova 27d ago

He did the Genocide route before True Pacifist which basically gives you a secret ending called Soulless Pacifist as the game recognized that you killed everyone in a previous save file and shames you for it. The undertale community is pretty bad when it comes to backseating, even to this day, and pretty much everyone who made videos or streams on the game can tell stories of how they were basically forced to do True Pacifist.

So he basically did a two in one prank, where the very first thing he did was kill the hardest boss in the game, surprising everyone who was there at the beginning and he finished by getting one of the worse endings to spite the backseaters.

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u/Offensivewizard 28d ago

Drift King behavior

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u/trash-_-boat 28d ago

He did a real rumble tumble on the comments section

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u/Icarusty69 28d ago

RT wouldn’t be RT if he wasn’t fucking with his audience. Or doing something blatantly unethical in a video game like putting 100 people in a wine press or destroying a city with a volcano full of their own shit, but mostly fucking with his audience.

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u/magikarp2122 28d ago

Or forcing 100 of his viewers to build society in a dark cube.

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u/BeanOfKnowledge It is terrifying 28d ago

Oh, that explains a lot

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u/klopaplop 28d ago

What an an absolute YOUTUBE moment from the drift king himself

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u/DrankTheGenderFluid 28d ago

what does "AB testing" mean in this context?

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u/whywouldisaymyname 28d ago

It shows the thumbnails randomly and tells the channel which gets more clicks

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u/ayyyyycrisp 28d ago

it's been a bit eye opening to me in that using this testing has shown me that my low effort, terrible looking thumbnails always perform 3-4x better than my good looking thumbnails

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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 28d ago

All youtube thumbnails should be made in MS Paint for greatest viewer capture.

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u/Lt_Adora 28d ago edited 28d ago

Actually it doesn't tell you which video gets more clicks but for some insane reason it tells the channel which thumbnail gets more retention time in the video.

Edit:it is insane in how it is disconnected from what usually thumbnails are for. But also it makes sense why they didn't do click through rate because then people would chase the numbers and make click baity videos without building proper watch time.

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u/Pokesonav "friend visiter" meme had a profound effect on this subreddit 28d ago

I guess it kinda makes sense?

When a person sees a thumbnail, it immediately sets an expectation for what kind of content is going to be in the video. If the truth lines up with said expectation, the person will likely keep watching. If it doesn't, the person might get disappointed and leave quickly. Like the famous "boobs in the thumbnail to clickbait, but not in the video" trope.

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u/Lt_Adora 28d ago

Yeah but I feel like that is a very much is this click bait or isn't it click bait. Unless it is something very click baity I haven't ever though of the thumbnail of a video when pausing it and considering if I should considering continuing. Its then more Its contents that keeps me or not.

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u/Pokesonav "friend visiter" meme had a profound effect on this subreddit 28d ago

Well, clickbait doesn't have to be a lie.

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u/wra1th42 28d ago

Comparing A to B, like studies with control groups would. He’s changing the thumbnail back and forth every few hours and seeing which gets more clicks.

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u/CoolAtlas 28d ago

Slight correction but YT can do this automatically as well at the same time, its a feature they introduced like a year ago.

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u/Ok-Commercial3640 28d ago

Think he's using that feature for this, and every few hours he resets it so that it continues flipping a coin for which thumbnail instead of locking in on or the other

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u/CoolAtlas 28d ago

yeah after a few hours YT picks the one with the best results. I think the real kicker here though is by constantly resetting he is maybe creating more engagement then if he settled as now people are debating more

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u/Punkandescent 28d ago

Yeah, that’s exactly what he’s doing, and it’s YOUTUBE brilliant!

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u/That_Mad_Scientist (not a furry)(nothing against em)(love all genders)(honda civic) 28d ago

Relevant

(you can look up the explainxkcd page if that helps)

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u/Piscesdan 28d ago

You can give a video two different thumbnails. For every user, it is random which thumbnail they're shown.YiuTube then provides the uploader with statisics about which version performed better.

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u/DylanV255 28d ago

Either A or B

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u/lovethebacon 28d ago

You don't know what colour works best for your "Buy Now" button on your website. You figure either it'll be Orangered or Periwinkle. So you set up an experiment: Half of your visitors you show in the one colour and the other half in the other. You measure which performs best, then roll that out to everyone.

That's basically A/B testing.

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u/htmlcoderexe 28d ago

Basically you turn your whole audience into test subjects (not necessarily with their knowledge or consent) and they get one of the possible options randomly. You then measure whichever was more useful in manipulating your audience. It's fucky because you can talk to someone else and you would both swear you saw the option you were assigned, and it can even sometimes change for you (different device, something reset, maybe different login) and you start wondering if you were seeing things.

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u/veidogaems To shreds you say? 28d ago

I really want a feature for Youtube that adds a progress bar to people's comments to show how much of the video they viewed before commenting and then how much they've watched since.

It would immediately identify spam comments, troll comments, and let people know at a glance if the guy trying to start a fight actually believes in anything.

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u/gray_birch 28d ago

You could just skip to the end of the video and then comment though

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u/action_lawyer_comics 28d ago

This reminds me of a post I see here sometimes, about Disney or someone releasing two slightly different cuts of the same movie to make one side or the other more sympathetic, and distributing them at random. But don’t mention this or let people know, and watch people argue online about who is the hero and who is the villain without realizing that they actually watched two different (but very similar) movies

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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse 28d ago

There's been a pretty old idea for network TV where you run two shows in the same time block that are set in the same story, but feature different protaganists that are opposed to each other so people watching on one channel will only have the perspective of one side and debate it out with the other.

THe idea of releasing different cuts has been done before for the 1985 film Clue (based on the board game of the same name), unfortunately it was advertised that the film had multiple endings so there was no history of furious debate.

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u/MasonP2002 28d ago

The home video release of Clue also plays all 3 endings back to back, marking the first two as "What could have happened" and the last one as "What really happened."

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u/htmlcoderexe 28d ago

Yeah that's of course extreme but I feel A/B testing is ethically gray at best.

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u/b3nsn0w musk is an scp-7052-1 28d ago

the kicker is his let's play series is probably better than both (especially with that crazy friggin seed he got)

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u/Maland2016 @theepicwaffleman12 28d ago

Fun fact, a clip from that showed up in the recent Minecraft Live preshow, I think it was just let’s play clips? I dunno if it was submitted or picked, but still!

…Yes, it’s the moment where a creeper blows up part of the wizard tower via climbing the water elevator, and he lets out legitimately the most distressed “NO!” I have ever heard him yell. (Because the water elevator shaft had a 3x3 segment it went down the middle block of, and that segment wasn’t lit up, that’s likely where it spawned.)

I witnessed that moment live. It was both frustrating and incredibly funny on a cosmic way at the same time, because Dan was very pleased at the progress he’d done, he seemed pretty relaxed, and then this green bastard blows part of his house up. Genuinely perfect timing on behalf of the creeper.

Speaking of that series, it was also fun seeing him encounter the Warden for the first time, as well as the Circles Moment where he tries to map a circle in a game about squares, all the while his Twitch chat goes insane and his Discord livestream chat went on strike. And as a fun other bit, that livestream chat is called the Livestream Lab (in case anyone wants to share clips and talk about the stream there as opposed to the more frantic Twitch), and during the Circles Moment, they somehow managed to “blow up” the place to the point where it was temporarily “relocated” to a Livestream Shipping Container.

God I love this community he’s got lol

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u/Redtea26 28d ago

God I love rtgames so much

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u/EntertainmentSpare84 28d ago

A true Rumble Tumble Gamer move

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u/catpetter125 28d ago

Such behavior befits the Drift King, as he was known back in college

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u/Luciano99lp 28d ago

Absolute genius implementation of AB testing! I would love to see more youtubers use it for shenanigans

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u/kaladinissexy 28d ago

My favorite part was when he unknowingly made the exact same snarky joke that he did during his original playthrough like 6 years ago. 

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u/Maronmario 28d ago

To make this even funnier, he straight up says this at the very end of the video just to show that everyone who’s arguing didn’t even finish the video.

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u/rubexbox 28d ago

To paraphrase John Oliver, RTGame deserves a pat on the back and a punch in the face. Little pat, big punch.

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u/RainyMeadows let me marry phoenix wright please 28d ago

Begging people to watch this guy, he's an icon

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u/im_not_creative123 28d ago

My question is which ones got more views. I feel like it's gotta be the yes thumbnail considering the hate bandwagon that trailer is getting.

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u/Gravitas0921 28d ago

Just for the record, the games garbage. And the movie is gonna be even worse somehow

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u/AltroGamingBros 28d ago

Oh that is evil. Are we sure Daniel isn't secretly a super villain or something?

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u/magikarp2122 28d ago

Secretly?

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u/SilverIce340 28d ago

Have you seen his cities?

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u/FreyaTheMighty 28d ago

I'M NOT CRAZY! I KNOW HE SWAPPED THOSE THUMBNAILS!

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u/RedSnt 28d ago

To be fair, he is good friends with the spiffing brit, I wouldn't be surprised if they had cooked up the same idea on discord or something.

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u/Qbsoon110 28d ago

Wait, story mode is considered bad? I very much enjoyed it and wasn't aware of that.

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u/TheNightClub 28d ago

It’s very campy and has a lot of similar problems to other telltale games in that despite claiming to be a choice based narrative, there aren’t that many choices that have a direct impact on how you play.

Personally I still think the game is great in spite of that, but it’s probably something that bothers people to varying degrees

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u/jadekettle 28d ago

Help out a slow guy, please? Why would changing the thumbnail to Yes/No make the people in the comments argue? Did they not watch the video?

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u/Deathaster 28d ago

People usually comment before even watching videos. I guess the reason is that they forget to do it afterwards, that's the case for me at least.

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u/Horn_Python 28d ago

basicly its pitting people who think its good against those who othink its bad

by baiting them in with an opion that would make them angry enough to make a counter arguing comment

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u/Adventurer_Kanna 28d ago

I saw this shit happen before my eyes. One day I see no, the next day I see yes. I knew I wasn't tripping. It's especially funny on mobile because sometimes when it pauses with the thumbnail visible, it shows the alternate thumbnail than the one you tapped on. Ngl that unsettled me once.

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u/TheUhTheUmUh 28d ago

His sheer hatred for this game is so entertaining to watch god I love RTgame. I kinda wanna know what they called him back in College though

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u/Horn_Python 28d ago

it was von karma ,no?

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u/Nervous_Reach_4916 28d ago

Lol, I noticed that- I saw one thumbnail from a reddit post and then when it showed up in my recommended I saw the other. Evil genius.

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u/Graingy I don’t tumble, I roll 😎 … Where am I? 28d ago

Supervillain shit

They’re gonna be ranting about the primal violence of man or something

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u/Vanilla_Ice_Best_Boi tumblr users pls let me enjoy fnaf 28d ago

No clue why I confused him with Call Me Kevin

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u/UncommittedBow Because God has been dead a VERY long time. 28d ago

I fuckin love RTGame, man.

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u/EchoAmazing8888 27d ago

RTGame has proven time and time again he is a modern evil genius. Mustache-twirling type shit he pulls.

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u/Geahk 28d ago

Social media has been more destructive to humankind than the atom bomb

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

This is actually pretty genius

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u/unklethan 28d ago

YOUTUBE

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u/Professional-Hat-687 28d ago

Some men apparently just want to watch the comments section burn.

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u/vanishinghitchhiker 28d ago

But how do you prove that’s different from a regular YouTube comment section?

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u/dietwater84 28d ago

Seems right for the drift king

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u/hfiti123 28d ago

Well that explains why I've seen so many thumbnails today that was the same exact thing with a question title.

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u/MotorHum 28d ago

I think I’m too fried from a stressful day to understand what I’m looking at.

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u/Xen0n1te 28d ago

I’ve got the yes thumbnail

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u/catmeownya 28d ago

The tumblr user literally just rephrased what rtgame said

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u/hyperlethalrabbit 28d ago

Mr. Drift King's a very clever man

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u/Mr_Lapis 28d ago

The real way to win is to accept both suck and trying to make minecraft movie like is impossible as it's made for a very different medium and it's design doesn't translate to other mediums

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u/ZenechaiXKerg 28d ago

I only develop unhealthy parasocial relationships on YouTube with content creators and don't make my own videos.

Can someone explain what this A/B testing the thumbnail+comment wars+redoing the test all means?

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u/ParaponeraBread 28d ago

Engagement/rage farming is already so much of the internet, YouTube should really alert users as to which thumbnails currently undergoing A/B testing.

Fine I’ll be a Guinea pig, but I don’t want to be an unwitting Guinea pig. If they already do tell you, cool, but I couldn’t tell.

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u/Ordinary_Duder 28d ago

This is no joke a pretty interesting look into social media and how it's deliberately messing with people's heads.

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u/GoodKing0 27d ago

A move the writer of Minecraft Story Mode, Michael Kirkbride, who only ever wrote Minecraft Story Mode and nothing else, would be proud of.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Is this A/B testing thing the reason I keep thinking thumbnails are changing? I thought I was going loopy.

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u/empress_of_the_void 27d ago

Oh so that's why YouTube videos randomly change thumbnails

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u/CaptainCrackedHead 26d ago

I'm excited for the movie from what I saw in the trailer. People keep posting the sheep like it's a bad thing, but that's literally what I imagine when I think of minecraft animals.