• dracs@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    I believe Steve has said that he hates the title/thumbnails too. But Google’s algorithms heavily incentives them, so he reluctantly uses them while maintaining the good quality content.

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      6 months ago

      Unfortunately this is just the state of YouTube. If you don’t do clickbait, you’re just irrelevant. And YouTube does nothing to curb this.