ChuckYeagerOnLSD

On 23/11/2017 at 01:13, adamneely said:

It’s not that I’m “fond” of it. It’s that my literal career depends on it. YouTube’s algorithm heavily promotes clicks, and the more times people click on a video, the more it gets recommended to you.

Consider my position, please. I want to create in-depth video essays, or good-faith critiques of other musicians to help them improve, or comment response videos answering questions from my viewers. This is what I want to do for a job, for a living, because I think I’m pretty good at it, and I have the opportunity to do so.

How should I title my videos? Should I appeal to your own personal sensibility of what titles should be? Remember, YouTube will bury it if I do. So, if I dont clickbait it, you won’t see it, and then nobody else will see it either.

 I constantly have to play a game of how much I should clickbait, and what that clickbait looks like. It’s not something that I enjoy at all, so I hope you judge my stuff by the quality of what I offer in the video itself rather than how it’s packaged for you. Because there is little that I can do about that.

 

You don't do clickbait though from what I've seen. Sensational titles alone don't make clickbait. Clickbait by definition includes some form of deception. Like a title that says "this song's never been played on bass before" but it obviously has.

With clickbait I just go into my burner account and find a reason to pose as someone with a copyright claim. Don't like it? Don't resort to clickbait. If you can't make ends meet without clickbait, get a job you're competent at.