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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9639949" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Oh man, I used to love watching his stuff. Then... not so much. He has just tripled down on all the crass YouTube tactics to get people to click -- hyperbole, all-caps/exclamation points, vague descriptions that require you to click on the video (and watch through the first ad) before you find out what the band and song under discussion even is. After a video titled something like &quot;It's ILLEGAL to change channels when this song is playing&quot; I noped right out for good. I mean, I get it, attention spans are hard to capture, and if people don't click he doesn't get paid. There's a reason clickbait exists and a reason why even serious new sites have turned their front pages into 'senator thinks THIS is vital for everyone to know (for their very survival)' and you have to click to find out which senator and what this utterly important news is (probably something that technically fits the hyperbolic statement, like how much you need to have saved to afford retirement or the like). I just wish the tactic didn't work, or that video titles that described what you were going to see* got as many clicks, or that word of mouth and quality** meant YouTubers wouldn't feel the need to use such tactics.*ex. 'The History of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark'**and, to be clear, Professor of Rock actually puts a lot of research/legwork into their videos.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9639949, member: 6799660"] Oh man, I used to love watching his stuff. Then... not so much. He has just tripled down on all the crass YouTube tactics to get people to click -- hyperbole, all-caps/exclamation points, vague descriptions that require you to click on the video (and watch through the first ad) before you find out what the band and song under discussion even is. After a video titled something like [I]"It's ILLEGAL to change channels when this song is playing"[/I] I noped right out for good. I mean, I get it, attention spans are hard to capture, and if people don't click he doesn't get paid. There's a reason clickbait exists and a reason why even serious new sites have turned their front pages into 'senator thinks THIS is vital for everyone to know (for their very survival)' and you have to click to find out which senator and what this utterly important news is (probably something that technically fits the hyperbolic statement, like how much you need to have saved to afford retirement or the like). I just wish the tactic didn't work, or that video titles that described what you were going to see* got as many clicks, or that word of mouth and quality** meant YouTubers wouldn't feel the need to use such tactics. [SIZE=2]*ex. [I]'The History of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark'[/I] **and, to be clear, Professor of Rock actually puts a lot of research/legwork into their videos.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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