It’s getting ridiculous. There’s one youtuber that swapped the thumbnail 4 times this week just to make people look at it again and think it was a different video. The worst part is that it sort of works, I keep looking at it then remembering I saw something very similar from the same channel name yesterday.

I hate this so damn much.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    They’re not trying to trick people into re-watching videos they’ve already seen. YouTube generally does a pretty good job of not recommending those videos anyway. They’re simply testing which thumbnail/title brings the most traffic. It might seem petty but it makes a huge difference.

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      4 months ago

      Yup, Scott Cramer recently did an interesting video that touches on this on his second channel, Scott is Struggling. Pretty cool if you’re into that kinda meta game of YouTube.