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Holy click bait batman!!
That's basically all Veritasium video now. I like his content but fuck him for trying to justify and be part of the problem.
I just use dearrow now. the youtube AI clickbait engagement game will continue to make for wild and wild titles, and i can't fault people on the platform from playing the game.
dearrow changes the title to
When I post videos on lemmy I go out of my way to correct the title into something usable.
Ooof, Lemmy really hates clickbait titles, huh? Changed it to the DeArrow title in the hopes that more people give it a chance this way. I usually just take the current video title, but I guess that just doesn't work here.
Edit: Oh I see it's even in the rules. My bad!