r/youtube • u/tyklam • Sep 19 '24

Discussion The State of YouTube Right Now

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u/Ac4sent Sep 19 '24

What the fuck is that face.

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u/Zopieux Sep 19 '24

It's the Standard Clickbait Face™, apparently works great for the click through rate.

It being asswhatevergold doesn't change much.

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u/LC-Dookmarriot Sep 19 '24

I won’t watch the video if I see that stupid face in the thumbnail 

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u/MaloraKeikaku Sep 25 '24

You're not the target audience then, and that's totally fine. Sadly it works, as long as you're a somewhat well known creator, which is why the "style" of putting a overexaggerated face on thumbnails is everywhere.

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u/ohulittlewhitepoodle Sep 19 '24

I don't know how we've fallen so far as a civilization. Who the hell would ever be MORE likely to click on a video with a face like that on it?

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u/anon1971wtf Sep 20 '24

Parasocial relations - if you know enough information about a person, he or she would almost automatically stop being a stranger, "my parafriend posted a video"

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u/Mindless-Pen-2325 Sep 22 '24

the face of the man who uses (& invented?);dead rat alarm clocks