D&D General Weird "DnD Is Dead" Youtube Trend??

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-22T19:12:44+0000

Why? Why is yhis enough of a thing that whrn i watch any video from the official dnd channel i get recomended videos about how "dnd as we know it is over" and "all of dndbeyond was leaked" and stuff like that?

Did people just get hooked on the rage clicks during the OGL kerfluffle?

DEFCON 1 · 2026-03-22T19:23:09+0000

doctorbadwolf said:
Did people just get hooked on the rage clicks during the OGL kerfluffle?

People have been hooked on rage clicks since the very beginning. And apparently your YouTube algorithm has decided you are one of those rage clickers and that's why they are linking those videos to you.

From the minor bits of YouTube futzing I have heard over the years... if you write a couple Comments in the D&D videos you actually like, that will begin to realign your "engagement" and trigger their algorithm to link you to more videos in that direction.

DrJawaPhD · 2026-03-22T19:28:08+0000

doctorbadwolf said:
Did people just get hooked on the rage clicks during the OGL kerfluffle?

It's not an OGL thing or a DnD thing. Humans in general are hooked on rage clicks, that's why social media works

Koloth · 2026-03-22T19:30:11+0000

Lots of folks make money from YT videos. Anything that attracts clicks is fair game. Posting a mostly nonsensical title is a good way to get clicks and therefore earn sweet sweet click money.

In many ways, YT has become the gossip media of the Internet. And like the MiB, we have to figure out which stories are fake and which have just enough truth to be useful. But the real winner is YT, they get a piece of the action if the video is true or false, or anything in between.