Click bate with CES content makes it frustrating to know what the product is

[MrDynamicMan]

Seeing as CES videos don't get their own thread in LTT official I guess this is the best place to post this. I mean seriously, "watercooling made beautiful with one simple product" instead of saying "RGB fittings that make your loop gorgeous" I get that you want to do click bate to optimize for YouTube, but you're making the process for your fans more painful. 

[bgibbz]

2 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Seeing as CES videos don't get their own thread in LTT official I guess this is the best place to post this. I mean seriously, "watercooling made beautiful with one simple product" instead of saying "RGB fittings that make your loop gorgeous" I get that you want to do click bate to optimize for YouTube, but you're making the process for your fans more painful. 

It makes sense, when I read "rgb fittings that make your loop gorgeous", then I know what the entire video is. Why would I bother watching it? Personally, I would rather a non descript title, like "CES EK booth" ( or whoever made that product, haven't seen the video yet). 

[Stefan1024]

Well this is the reason I stopped to watch LTT videos to know what's going on. PCPER is just better to get good information.

LTT is basicly comedy now, so it's funny from time to time, but useless othweise.

 

Quite sad but as long a people keep wathcing the videos they won't change anything....

[KE2012]

Yeah it's getting annoying imo. I've stopped watching alot of creators for their shitty naming methods, hope ltt doesn't come one of them. 

[PlayStation 2]

13 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Seeing as CES videos don't get their own thread in LTT official I guess this is the best place to post this. I mean seriously, "watercooling made beautiful with one simple product" instead of saying "RGB fittings that make your loop gorgeous" I get that you want to do click bate to optimize for YouTube, but you're making the process for your fans more painful. 

It's all about the benjamins, baby. -unknown, 1997

[MrDynamicMan]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

It's all about the benjamins, baby. -unknown, 1997

Summoning @benjamin

[UnexpectedTurkey]

17 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Seeing as CES videos don't get their own thread in LTT official I guess this is the best place to post this. I mean seriously, "watercooling made beautiful with one simple product" instead of saying "RGB fittings that make your loop gorgeous" I get that you want to do click bate to optimize for YouTube, but you're making the process for your fans more painful. 

Totally agree. It's so sad and frustrating to see that LTT is joining the click bait f*** fest.

[-iSynthesis]

1 hour ago, bgibbz said:

It makes sense, when I read "rgb fittings that make your loop gorgeous", then I know what the entire video is. Why would I bother watching it? Personally, I would rather a non descript title, like "CES EK booth" ( or whoever made that product, haven't seen the video yet). 

Well it's what differs quality news from click bait. You saying you wouldn't watch the video because the title gives the most important information of the video is like saying you wouldn't read a newspaper article because the title gives the most important information. 

[bgibbz]

9 minutes ago, -iSynthesis said:

Well it's what differs quality news from click bait. You saying you wouldn't watch the video because the title gives the most important information of the video is like saying you wouldn't read a newspaper article because the title gives the most important information. 

Well... I don't. If a newspaper article is titled "razer showcases new three screen laptop" then I would read it out of interest, becuse there is still lots of unknown info. I wouldn't know screen size, laptop specs, display specs. I wouldn't know how it worked, how the screens folded, and so on. On the other hand, if an article is titled " new rgb water cooling fittings" then I would know that someone took water cooling fittings, added red green and blue lights and allowed the colors to be mixed. What else could I learn from reading the article? 

[-iSynthesis]

1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

Well... I don't. If a newspaper article is titled "razer showcases new three screen laptop" then I would read it out of interest, becuse there is still lots of unknown info. I wouldn't know screen size, laptop specs, display specs. I wouldn't know how it worked, how the screens folded, and so on. On the other hand, if an article is titled " new rgb water cooling fittings" then I would know that someone took water cooling fittings, added red green and blue lights. And allowed the colors to be mixed. Why else could I learn from reading the article? 

It's obvious that a title like that draws views. That's what it's for, still doesn't make neutral news though. TBH, the example is quite unfortunate because theres not much to talk about a rgb water cooling fitting, IMO a video on a thing like that is unnecessary. It would be enough to just shortly mention it in another video of EK. I'll give an example where i find the title o.k.: "Slim Gaming Notebook for $800" - Gives precise information. No clickbait, just a short description of what the video will be about. You still want to know more information about the laptop, that's what the video is for. Then i'll give you an example of a worse title: "$599 Cube of DREAMS" - What is this Cube? Is it a Computer? Why would it be a dream of mine? Clickbait at it's finest. The title could just as well be "Cube-shaped computer priced at $599" or something similar and thereby be neutral. 

[mrchow19910319]

4 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

LTT is basicly comedy now, so it's funny from time to time, but useless othweise.

Agree. Unsubbed long time ago. Everything feels too cheesy for me. The ridiculous thumbnail, all the obvious product placement, also let's not even forget  about all those "I spend $100000000 on a pc so I am cool" videos. Compare to watching his vids, I prefer sometimes come here and chat with people, see the latest tech related news and stuff. I know I am not the only one who feels this way. So. *hand shake*

[sazrocks]

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/815706362696998912

 

Seems like they don't really like it either, but have to "stick with it" because of the stupid youtube algorithm.

[sockeater]

8 hours ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Seeing as CES videos don't geI mean seriously, "watercooling made beautiful with one simple product" instead of saying "RGB fittings that make your loop gorgeous" I

I absolutely agree, the naming of the vids are completely obscure and it's off-putting not knowing what the content is going to be

 

look at what Paul's hardware is doing - its sooo much nicer

 

 

 

 

 

[zMeul]

I haven't looked at a single video from CES and I'm probably not the only one

if Linus wants views, he should publish actual watchable content

[Tieox]

9 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I haven't looked at a single video from CES and I'm probably not the only one

if Linus wants views, he should publish actual watchable content

 

It's what they used too, it seems since the loss of Vessel they've moved to a more "appealing" to some audiences type of pushing their content, which may be working for now, but given YouTubes crack down on clickbait content ( I see quite often a pop-up box asking about if I feel this content is click bait ) it's a failing world that they're trying to start up within.

 

It's their choice in the end and all we can do is voice our displeasure at how they're moving forward, I am positive though that they will be forced to move back, though, especially when YouTube has another algorithm change.

 

 

[zMeul]

39 minutes ago, Kierax said:

I see quite often a pop-up box asking about if I feel this content is click bait

I have never seen this on YT 

[ProjectBox153]

A lot of channels have been resorting to click-bait lately, including LTT. Vlog channels seem to be the most affected by this, as I've seen several vlogs promising something that's non-existent within said vlog.

[Kc7vwc]

I'll still watch it because there's usually 2-3 subjects being talked about. A title can hardly tell you everything, especially if there's more than 1 subject, so watch the vid for that info. 

Also, it's not click bait. Current titles DO say something about the content, or at very least the object the vid is about. Click bait is giving hints and you have to view it to see anything, including what the actual subject is. 

Thumbnails are goofy, but Linus has always been a goof. 

[LAwLz]

I think a lot of people are focusing too much on "is it or isn't it clickbait", but I don't think that matters. It's just a cheap way of distracting from the real issue. The issue that the thumbnails, titles and content is cancerous 12 year old bait.