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it’s depressing that we have to live amongst people who will click on all these videos
We had a family live with us for a few months one summer and YouTube did all of the parenting for hours on end everyday for kids 8-15
literal ghoulish depictions of the image of man dreamed up by the soulless
i hate thumbnails. i hate search engine optimization. i hate algorithms. i miss feeling like people on the internet were ever at all genuine
We’re genuine 😁
SEO face and it’s consequences.
I love this term, never heard it before, it’s perfect though.
Nothing Verhoeven did was even close to as garish as this. I feel like I am genuinely becoming a little bit more unstable every time I see one of these thumbnails.
MAKING TWO HOMELESS PEOPLE PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE FOR $100,000!!!
Sadly this would probably get a bunch of views. Just make it a nerf blaster or something as like the cherry on top click bait.
This is the most
I’ve ever felt while looking at an image so far in my lifeIt took me a couple of years but I managed to curate my yt feed to only show me stuff I will actually watch and yet I’m still one misclick away from getting Little Ben Shapiro and PragerU shoved down my throat.
I use newpipe so I don’t get recommendations. My recommendations typically come from other people.
Just turn off watch history (turns off recommendations and the home page) and use the subscription feed exclusively. Suggested videos will only appear based on your currently watched video, so completely unpersonalized
This is what I’ve done for ages and it works like a charm (although unfortunately search is still terrible, no saving that mess). Well, I only got around to disabling watch history in the last year or so, but I’ve been going directly to the sub feed for almost as long as YouTube has existed. I think the only time I actually used the front page was in the very early days of YouTube when it was actually a little community and you’d have featured videos and stuff, but that was like 15 years ago.
I think it’s notable that Mr Beast has switched away from the open mouth smile in favor of the closed mouth smile and the others haven’t caught up yet
I definitely find the closed mouth less annoying (still sucks, just less) and I know Mr Beast tests shit like that to an extreme degree so it probably gets more views
Use DeArrow! It not only removes clickbait thumbnails, but replaces them with community-sourced ones, allowing one to choose a thumbnail frame from the video and have it better put up for a vote, and it does the same thing for the video’s title! It’s made by the same guy who made Sponsorblock.
I use Mr. Beastify for that bc I like to suffer, but having the Beast everywhere makes it warp back to around not being annoying anymore for some reason and sometimes he shows up under a red triangle or something like that :3
*.youtube.com 127.0.0.1
Those dead fucking smiles
My will stipulates that I be buried with a Mr. Beast mask so I can look dead on the inside as well as the outside.
Imagine its the zombie apocalypse and youre getting chased by someone with a mr beast mask. 😱
Somehow the DJ Scooter rave mix of Supertramp’s Logical Song is playing in the background
The fucking LED clickbait Twitch streamer aesthetic has got to go. Along with, you know, all the stuff connected to it.
Surprising Family at 3 AM with a CLAW HAMMER!
There is a special corner of my heart that is reserved solely for how much I hate those FGTV motherfuckers. It’s just a couple of rich assholes spoiling their kids with every fucking treat on the planet.
Giant acres of empty lawn owned by 20 year olds while some poor guy has to rely on a youtuber for food lol
Mr. Beast is just bum fights with more steps.
AI looking mfs, count the teeth
no, see, here’s the thing… how does every single one of these look WORSE than the slop Dall-E spits out??? why don’t they just have the ai make the thumbnails instead of this???
it looks worse in the sense that it’s an obvious photoshop where the subject was badly composited into the scene. AI might not have that same issue but would look worse in so many other ways like generating weird blobby nonsense
AI also probably won’t do a good job at making someone’s exact face unless you train a model on lots pictures of the person which takes time, effort and knowledge of how AI works. it would actually be a lot more difficult to get a passable AI result than just slapping a picture of your stupid face on a background image
There’s IPadapter for SD models which only requires a single photo at runtime, though I don’t know exactly how strong its adherence is. There’s also training a LORA which would only require a few images and take maybe a day at the most, which would be an easy investment of time and resources for someone who wants to churn out tons of images with that one face on them. And of course there’s the simplest method of all: just crudely pasting the desired face into the image and then sending it for a low denoise img2img pass to make the inscrutable machine integrate it into the image better.
That level of extremely basic and rudimentary technical knowledge is probably beyond the influencers themselves, but certainly not beyond whatever flunky they pay to maintain their brand like that, at which point it’s probably self-preservation and not wanting to create an automated process that can replace themselves that stops them from using that approach.
