• LichbaneLB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he’s just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.

    For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled “How machines like ChatGPT learn” - despite coming out before GPT.

    • dack@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much every successful YouTube channel edits titles. It’s just part of the algorithm game now. You will often see videos cycle through several different titles shortly after release.

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      1 year ago

      You have to blame YouTube and the people who click those garbage thumbnails