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TexasTowelie

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3. So do you also judge a book by its cover?
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 06:24 AM
Jan 2025

While I prefer for video titles not to use clickbait within the titles, I'm willing to give a video a few minutes to make the point.

While YouTube cannot force content creators to use clickbait in their titles and thumbnails, what they can do is factor those elements into their algorithms to determine whether they recommend that content to other people online. Thus, if a content creator wants their message to be seen and heard then they have to play by YouTube's rules. Otherwise, the creator might as well forget about monetizing that content on YouTube.

I feel like I'm rolling the dice when selecting videos from the Liberal YouTubers Group which is why it helps to include the media source in the thread title so that other DUers can quickly decide whether to view the content.

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