I originally posted this on lemmy.world, but then the instance went down again so fuck it, moving my c/videos subscription to here and restarting this post

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      1 year ago

      He’s said before that he hates it, but including one of those thumbnails boosts viewership by 30%. I certainly don’t like it, but it would be really hard for me to resist that extra income too.

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        1 year ago

        Steve at GN and also Level1Techs kind of do the same thing a little bit, but not enough to turn me off from their content. It also helps that their content is accurate.

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      1 year ago

      It’s been that way for years. I had to stop watching shortly after they moved out of that first house when they stopped putting product names into video titles.