Thurbo

Might as well stop replying, then. You should have realized that I'm not discussing clickbait. This is a different topic. Unless those other topics all misunderstand the term "clickbait" and still refer to the same thing I do.

I did not and I explicitly stated that I didn't This is the whole issue This is anti-clickbait, which I also explicitly stated Reading is hard it seems...

Yeah, that's pretty much what I heard someone tell me before. Still leaves me scratching my head how more people watch "mystery" videos than videos that they know the topic of. That seems completely contrary to what I'd expect to happen, namely that informative titles should generate more views. But so it appears that no one really knows why that is, then. Unfortunate.

Can we talk about this? I'm not sure where to best discuss this. The video titles of the LTT channel have commonly been completely useless for quite some time. This is a channel that I've enjoyed very much for as long as I've known it, but you have to understand that I have limited time, and consequently I can only watch a limited number of videos per day. Generally, logically, I decide which videos to watch purely based on their topic, whether it interests me or not.That's something that should be given away in the title or at least the thumbnail. Right? For several months now, if not longer, a vast majority of videos from LTT have had completely useless titles that told me absolutely nothing about what the video was going to be. At all. Not the topic, not the thing that it's reviewing, if it's a review at all or just a quick look or whatever, just nothing at all. The most recent video is a good example: I've Wanted this for YEARS! What does this tell me anything about what video this is going to be? It's something that Linus wanted for years. OK, I have no clue what that might be. That's as far as the title goes. The thumbnail shows him holding a thingy. It looks like a computer part to me, maybe even like a huge motherboard, but frankly, I just don't know. And thus, I haven't watched it. I've heard someone say on a different website that LTT is playing the "YouTube game" and coming up with titles based on what attracts more people. That only confuses me; how does a video which you don't know what it's going to be about at all, effectively making it a complete mystery video (other than the fact that Linus and a computery thingy will probably be in it) attract more viewers? Also, before anyone tells me, this is not the same as clickbait. Clickbait works by lying to and deceiving people in order to get them to click on the video. The LTT tiles don't do that, they're just bad in the sense that they leave the topic of the video a mystery. Again, I really like this channel and I'd love to keep watching more videos of you guys, but your videos that actually have an informative title are super scarce at this point.