Clickbait is Destroying Youtube User Experience

I know that YouTube creators need to have ads seen in order to get paid, so I'm willing to put up with a small amount of ads to help the channels I like keep going. What annoys me to no end is when creators drag out the length of their videos in order to make sure it's over 10 minutes long so that two ads will be inserted into it which generates higher income. Some of these videos could have been cut down to 5 minutes or less, but they would only have space to one ad which means lower income for the creator.
 
Imamacuser said:
I compiled a YouTube music playlist, and one of the songs had a 45 minute ad on it, and I thought 2 minute TV infomercials were long, a 45 minute ad on a 2 minute song is absolutely ludicrous.
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some of those ads continue playing until you click. With every platform there's a honeymoon period but eventually the advertisers ruin it. Right now I'm still enjoying being able to skip over Podcast ads but I'm sure that will end and it will eventually follow the YT route.

If you can take the ads...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLl7yc68Ox0
 
My biggest annoyance: It's not social media. It's the steering of viewpoints. It would go like this, news anchor/journalist says "Giuliani today made false claims about meeting an intervenor. He falsely alleges the meeting never took place."

A claim or allegation is something arguable or unproven, that news media have used with careful prefixing in attempts to paint as fact. News reporting should exclude bias. A claim should be reported as it is, arguable or unproven. "False" and "unproven" are mutually exclusive terms. "False" and "claim" are mutually exclusive as well.

"House member Jules Doe today falsely claimed he is innocent of all charges." With that wording, he has been convicted by media bias before he has been tried.

If it had been reported like this, "7 time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady falsely denies a claim by a team cheerleader that he made unwelcome advances," we would be steered to a conclusion of guilt without fact.

Claims and allegations are unproven, and should be treated as such. Facts are not in dispute.

You would never hear of anyone accused of truthfully claiming anything. "Senator Smithins returned the campaign funds to the donor." Not "Sen Smithins truthfully claims to have returned the funds."

False claiming is a way of sensationalizing news while advancing a viewpoint.

There are no Edward R Murrows or Walter Cronkites. The world needs them.
 
It's impossible to avoid some bias even if a news outlet doesn't select which particular political group it is trying to appease the most (niche marketing and so on).
 
TheDingo said:
I know that YouTube creators need to have ads seen in order to get paid, so I'm willing to put up with a small amount of ads to help the channels I like keep going. What annoys me to no end is when creators drag out the length of their videos in order to make sure it's over 10 minutes long so that two ads will be inserted into it which generates higher income. Some of these videos could have been cut down to 5 minutes or less, but they would only have space to one ad which means lower income for the creator.
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For the longest time, I didn't realize there were multiple ads on my feature, Rise of the Beast. People kept complaining about there being too many ads, but with my adblocker, I had no idea. Then one day someone commented there were 18 ads on my little movie. I finally figured out how to check that and where they were. Sure enough, YouTube added 18 at the worst break points. I've since gone through and placed one add about every ten minutes for a total of 7. Not only has this improved viewer experience by placing the ads at natural break points (IE if the film were to air on TV, these are where the commercials would go) but it really hasn't affected my revenue at all. If anything, it's gone up.
Sorry for the side tangent.
 
There is a trend on Youtube that I HATE. It's the review video thumbnail that shows the reviewer making a confused or frustrated face while palm slapping their forehead. I see that exact same thumbnail 1000Xs a day for nearly every product out there, even for glowing positive reviews. It's like there is some clickbait template that everyone is mindlessly following.
 
Bob Loblaw said:
There is a trend on Youtube that I HATE. It's the review video thumbnail that shows the reviewer making a confused or frustrated face while palm slapping their forehead. I see that exact same thumbnail 1000Xs a day for nearly every product out there, even for glowing positive reviews. It's like there is some clickbait template that everyone is mindlessly following.
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In general, almost all videos, regardless of content - i.e. of whether the content maker’s opinion is controversial or not - shows thumbnails of faces distorted by emotion, shock, exaggerated expressions and so on. It’s clickbait, relentless and constant. Controversy sells. So now everybody pretends that somehow their video is wow, a revelation. That goes together with all the titles - “FIND OUT WHY THIS HORRIBLE...” ; “THIS COMPLETELY DESTROYED...” “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I... FOR A MONTH”, “THE REAL REASON WHY...” “THE HIDDEN SECRET...” “WHY... IS ACTUALLY HORRIBLE FOR YOU!”.

Each youtuber feels like they have to top the next guy and it’s a race into the meaningless gutter. No trick is too cheap or too shameless. It makes finding good content much harder.

Many are saying that you have to find channels and stick to them. Yep, that works most of the time, but not always. I’ve observed that unfortunately sometimes even good youtubers feel compelled to gin up their content with spurious tactics and clickbait promises or content. Sad reality. I don’t know what the solution is.
 
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