• @[email protected]
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      392 months ago

      While Gamers Nexus does some decent work, he suffers from what a lot of youtubers suffer: clickbait titles, sponsored segments, unnecessary long videos, etc.

      Some find this so annoying, that they downvote this kind of content.

      Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us. I am not saying its irrelevant, but there are bigger news.

      • @dracs
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        492 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          Veritasim and other very popular YouTubers have empirically verified that clickbaity and thumbnails with faces results in higher view-through rates.

          I think Veritasim actually went into the science of clickbait, specifically thumbnails and why certain images respond better than others.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 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.

      • DacoTaco
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        I can understand with what youre saying, and to each their own tastes. However, id like to point out that asus tried to get them to pay 200$ for something that wasnt broken is something that is relevant to us as consumers. Specially since they started the investigation after a lot of people started mailing GN about their issues and… questionable practices

      • @[email protected]
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        132 months ago

        Emphasis on him suffering. The algorithm is incentivizing YouTubers to adhere to this meta. GN isn’t trying to mislead us, it’s just how the job is structured.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Also that asus scammed gamers nexus is not that relevant for most of us.

        If you actually watch the video, it documents how Asus ALSO scammed pretty much every other one of their customers who ever submit an RMA by making up lies about damaged components, charging to fix things that aren’t broken, then giving you just a few days to respond before they threaten to charge you shipping to send it back to you disassembled.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        Didn’t watch, did you?

        Yes, they reported the first hand experience because they can vouch for it completely. But they also have hundreds of people who contacted them - often with evidence - about Asus being dishonest and deceitful.

        In one of those people. I’m glad the word is spreading. Asus RMA really is that bad, too the degree the company just needs to die.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 months ago

          Yeah, I use Clickbait Remover, Sponsorblock, Improve Youtube (or ImprovedTube), Distraction-Free Youtube, Return Youtube Dislike, and of course, Ublock Origin, to make Youtube work well for me. That’s 6 extensions, 5 of which are about Youtube only. 5/11 of my extensions are for Youtube Only.

          For anyone curious, the others are enhanced-264-ify, User Agent Switcher, Dark Reader, Brave Search and Tabliss.

      • Em Adespoton
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        12 months ago

        One day soon, AI will be cheap enough and good enough that people will produce YouTube videos and AI will summarize the videos into well written, succinct articles with appropriate images and cited sources.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 months ago

          AI will just throw in hallucinations and misinformation. This is not a replacement to a human writing an article