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I think it's a spectrum. I mostly hang out in fairly nerdy and middle-aged corners of YouTube, so I don't see the worst of shitty clickbait. If a video from an unknown creator is suggested to me a clickbaity or ragebaity headline will probably make me avoid them.
But I don't mind an attention grabbing title "These AWFUL ingredients were ESSENTIAL for medieval peasants" or "This IMPOSSIBLE theory lead to the discovery of oxygen". It's kinda lame, but it still says what the topic of video is. Worse, imho, are things like "Why do smart people keep believing this" which uses the mystery / anticipation to suck you in. From a creator I like, it won't put me off (tbh, I probably won't even think about it as clickbait because I know their work is usually good) but it's not cool, and would put me off an unknown creator.
Basically, I don't care that much about headlines (or the stupid YouTube faces), but I hate shitty, shallow content. And a lot of the time, a clickbaity headline indicates a shallow video, so it has a negative effect on my interest.