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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • I watch a ton of youtube. Mostly longform content 20 minutes or longer.

    Clickbait has such a wide definition that I feel like setting clear definition would be important for your work.

    We live in an attention economy where there is way more content for us to consume then we ever could so the point of descion is crucial and thumbnail and title do a lot of heavy lifting. I only dislike it and think it is a problem when it lies, or the video itself is lacking in substance.

    In I a lot of gaming videos the thumbnail and or title is something along the lines of “How hard is it to beat X?” And they don’t answer the question directly, but more they play through it and you answer for yourself by watching them. Some point count this as clickbait, but I’m personally ok with it.