I read that title and I click away. Miss me with that gloom. I want educational content.

I keep forgetting about thumbnails. One of the first things I do, when installing or reinstalling a browser, is get DeArrow to remove the clickbait and custom thumbnails. I just found them off-putting for too long.

Only video of him worth watching is about child actors because he was one. The rest is boring and gloomy imo.

A shitty thumbnail = unsubscribe / do not recommend channel. Take out the trash

I have some plugin that just puts an image from inside the video as a thumbnail. Very nice not having to see gaping grimacing youtubers when on youtube.

I'm not a fan of the "I promise this is interesting" thumbnails I see everywhere on gaming videos. They rarely live up to said promise.

Unfortunately that emotional reaction from clickbaity/doomy stuff can work really well for some. The few times I've tried it, it hasn't worked for me, so my thumbnails aren't (I think) particularly doomy.

However, I focus on tech though, so a lot of what I talk about definitely has a cautionary tone, like the story this week about Muse's security vulnerabilities, or the Gamers Nexus investigation of LGTV's a few weeks ago. I sprinkle in jokes here and there to try and keep these topics lighter and more accessible.

or worse yet: you can tell the actual video is at the bottom and at the top there's some random roach just making o-faces over and over for attempts to get famous as a reaction tuber ? (I don't know)

It appeals to a lot of Gen-Z and Gen-A. They don’t understand nuanced topics and can only see things in stark black and/or white. Either a thing is wholly doom, or it’s the best thing they will ever see. There is no middle ground.

The blone guy had to shove a dildo up his ass to make this thumbnail. The other clickbait one is where they have to stretch their mouth open to suck a cock then edit it out to make the thumbnail. And they always come with a vauge question title to maximize their audience brainrot