The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world.::undefined

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    And plenty of poor low-subscriber channels that are actually really good and could blow up at some point.

    Probably doing stupid things like posting with useful titles and thumbnails without agape mouths…

    That seems to be the only kind of trash content that Google is interested in pushing these days.

    • drphungky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I can’t remember what channel, but somebody did an experiment with not doing the ridiculous thumbnails and got way fewer views. Which sort of gets at the point of this article: the are huge swaths of people that are clicking on them and that sounds super foreign to a lot of us.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        It was Veritaseum. I don’t argue that they’re not effective. I argue that Google has full control of them and Google could easily derate those types of videos to make a better experience for their users. But they do the opposite.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      That seems to be the only kind of trash content that Google is interested in pushing these days.

      Youtube “pushes” whatever gets more views and longer watch time.

      If trashy crap is being suggested, that means other people are watching it in increased numbers.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Youtube “pushes” whatever gets more views and longer watch time.

        No YouTube pushes what people will click on. They don’t care about the quality of the content, whether the people who watch it actually enjoy it (dislike = “engagement”), or what kind of content people are actually subscribed to because the ads come first.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Youtube “pushes” whatever gets more views and longer watch time.

          No YouTube pushes what people will click on.

          That’s pretty much what I said.

          • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            No it’s not what you said. You specifically mentioned “longer watch time” where clickbait titles and thumbnails result in the opposite, but also plenty of ad views.

    • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      04·
      11 months ago

      Google pushes what you click. Stop watching this kind of content and it’ll probably stop being recommended to you

        • foxbat@lemmings.worldEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          they are not optimizing for your enjoyment, they’'re optimizing for your engagement. they don’t give a fuck if you hate what you’re watching as long as you watch it for longer.

          • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
            41·
            11 months ago

            they are not optimizing for your enjoyment, they’'re optimizing for your engagement.

            Yes that’s my point.

            they don’t give a fuck if you hate what you’re watching as long as you watch it for longer.

            Don’t know about you but I don’t spend my free time torturing myself.

        • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14·
          11 months ago

          Well I practically never see these kinds of thumbnails, it’s absolutely influenced by your behaviour whatever it may be.