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I no longer get excited about a new Veritasium video.
I also don't get excited when the title and thumbnail change 5 times in a week.
I stopped watching veritasium years ago after watching a couple videos that were basically an ad for whatever company and him being smug.
He got bought by a private equity firm, don‘t be surprised
I don't really like Veritasium (anymore).
Here is an advert by Veritasium for Google's car's (Waymo). It's a terrible video. It uncritically shills. It contains garbage "research." Here is a longer breakdown.
I have a browser extension that blocks thumbnails on YouTube because I got tired of seeing people's creepy facial expressions.
Try DeArrow, it will replace the thumbnail with a random snapshot and title is crowdsourced.
Youtube has a feature to ABC test different thumbnails to test which one will be the most popular. You might see one or all of them depending on whether you click right away. Eventually the channel will choose the most successful one.
Kurzgesagt is pretty bad for that.
Why? I still love their stuff. The thumbnail shit is annoying though, he's said in the past they do it to boost engagement or something.
A lot of the videos aren't even made by him anymore.
That's true and a bit of a bummer but I think those videos are still great. I don't care that much who makes them as long as the quality is good.
New thumbnails mean people are more likely to click thinking it's a new video
Yesnt. Channels are A/B testing different thumbnails to see which ones work better. It can have massive effects.
It's not a simple "thumbnail gets changed, get more clicks"
Yea he said they do basically A/B testing and their user base is so large they get to see in real time what works and what doesn't.
I did this on one of their videos just last week. Annoyed the piss out of me. I think they changed the title too.
Wouldn't surprise me to know they changed the title. I haven't seen it personally as the people I follow seem to be honest. But it doesn't surprise me given that clicks increase revenue.
Even news headlines change if they're not seeing uptake at what they think they should be for a particular story
I enjoyed their recent video on power law distributions and why they dramatically change how you should operate in those domains.
They also did some good content a short while ago explaining why Monsanto and Dupont are problematic.
That said you are right about the thumbnails since when I looked at the channel to double check that it was veritasium I was thinking of the title and thumbnail are completely different for all of them.
Their most recent video on Dirac was also super interesting to me.
Dirac was his own person, despite having Charles Boutin's consciousness in his brain.
That PFA video was wild. That stuff messed me up good.
Same for me. There's still the occasional really good video, but there's too many that are basically ads for some big tech thing