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Hopefully things will get better, and also let’s hope the “shocked face” thumbnails for the videos go away. I don’t care if the algorithm says they convert better. I skip right over.
Unrelated hot take but the thumbnails don’t seem as egregious as others I’ve seen, but honestly I might’ve just gotten used to them, or I pay more attention to what he’s holding or something.
On another note, I do also hope things get better. Unfortunately, I’m disappointed in Linus’s own response in the video as he still victimized himself, but he said some things that seemed genuine after. Half the stuff about Billet labs I found reasonable but the rest seemed half-baked. Hats off to the rest of his staff and his CEO though—they were very genuine and not shy about taking accountability. I appreciate the CEO taking charge as he’s a much more sane voice than Linus in my opinion, and I appreciate Yvonne standing up.
Yeah, while it is annoying, I know there is a whole art form to those thumbnail images and there are other people I respect that are worse about them. I think they've talked pretty openly about how those are simply the annoying part of being in the YouTube business and if they didn't, they would just be leaving views on the table.
I’ve heard this, too, but I’m glad MBKHD’s thumbnails are largely not in this style. He’s our last hold out! (And he seems to be doing just fine.)
I dont get why everyone is so up in arms about thumbnails. I watch the videos not the thumbnails!
But yeah, I was wondering if the new CEO would say anything about the matter, and I was surprised to see him actually say something. Even more surprised to se Yvonne speaking out too. Both her and the CEO seem to have basically told Linus to fuck off for a bit, cuz hes only making things worse.
Oh yeah, 100% with Yvonne and Teren. It’s kinda like Teren’s like “you hired me as CEO, now let me be CEO and back off.”
Worst thing is you never know the topic of the video, I cant tell if it's about PC building some random gadget review, some nonsense humour piece. The only one I wanted to see was Intel's $5000 build your tech thing. For PC building I go to other channels now
Skip the video and come back in a day. They actually change the title after 24 hours or so.
get the dearrow extension
I do about 95% of my YouTubing on my iPad or AppleTV. I’m not sure I’d be able to utilize any extensions, unfortunately.
it really annoys me that apple doesn't allow non safari browsers, it's the one thing stopping me from using my beautiful iPhone 5s as my main phone
I had never heard about this, this is absolutely awesome
I know, I just found out about it recently because it's made by the same devs as sponsorblock