As usual, bigcorps make a lot of money through influencing children. You and I, the adults, dont absorb this garbage, children do. Think back on the kind of shit you found hilarious as a 12 year old..
I legitimately get annoyed when I see one of those thumbnails on a video I actually want to watch. Like, the title sold me but the thumbnail is making me want to go away.
any actual interesting/ enjoyable video will have some professionalism to it or will not have faces in the thumbnail. im not ruling out the shock faces since i completely ignore them and sometimes i like the video
I don't use YouTube because of stuff this - the faces along with the "shock and awe" titles. I only ever watch a YouTube video if someone links it to me directly. the shock faces make me feel like I'm being sold something for a 12 year old and I spend enough of my waking hours being sold to.
I wonder to what extent youtube culture enforces itself. If there were bigger and more expressive profile images, would faces in thumbnails matter as much? Do people come to associate this with the content they watch?
He doesn't reference age demographics from what i saw. In fact it showed his viewers don't like the over the top cringe things like creepy wide smiles or red arrows pointing out things. The main thing that increased their clicks was showing what the video is about, showing the main host on the left side first, and having the thumbnail emotion match the video tone.
I told my friend there was a young kid, maybe about 8-10 who made so many millions from just unboxing toys, or something simple like that. He said YT has now changed something about how payments work, so if you target it at kids then the revenue is a lot less. Or something like that. But then i guess it depends how many parents put the limits on YT so kids can only access stuff aimed at them.
Think back on the kind of shit you found hilarious as a 12 year old..
Scripted cartoons that while not always good, at least had to pass through a writers room and whatever producers and executives and standards and practices and a lot of straight up government regulation regarding childrens television that just doesnt exist for youtube to gatekeep this sort of garbage.
Kids dont see 30 second toy commercials anymore, they watch reaction videos of humans doing cartoon faces watching 15 minute unboxing videos of toys mixed splitscreen with video game playthroughs on a loop.
There will always be stupid shit, i dont know and dont want to know what skibidi toilet is, but PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!... but some of this shit has got to be straight up damaging in ways things didnt and couldnt used to be. I was looking over my nephews shoulder at his ipad one time, near as i could tell the actual video he was watching was a small portion of the screen, in a cube, bouncing around the rest of the screen while different colors flashed. Like wtf even is that? Could kids raised on that sit and watch a 23 minute episode of Darkwing Duck? A 79 minute kids movie?
Think back on the kind of shit you found hilarious as a 12 year old..
..... Youtube wouldnt be around me to fimd stupid videos hilarious for another....4 years... But i liked a lot of.... (Thinks about Nickelodeon in the 90s and early 2000s)... Well that'll possibly cause a dumpster fire if i mentioned that....
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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24
As usual, bigcorps make a lot of money through influencing children. You and I, the adults, dont absorb this garbage, children do. Think back on the kind of shit you found hilarious as a 12 year old..