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A Reaction to that Veritaseum ClickBait Video (Patreon)

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2021-08-21 16:16:32
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i can't say i've ever seen something that made me want to shoot a REACTION video but here we are.


also i've been producing way more bonus content in an effort to make your paid  subscription worth the cash, but this one does have me itching to take public somehow, like maybe sharing the unlisted link somewhere or setting it to public for one day idk maybe this whole thing is ~le cringe~ and the subject of clickbait is blurring my better judgement

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Previews only

i've NEVER done this before,,,

google deliberately obfuscates information to keep its producers in check, and i don't think that being all "don't hate the player hate the game" about it is going to help. https://youtu.be/VUAkZPJeiBM

Comments

Anonymous

I think the Veritasium guy might be receptive to your criticisms and that's reason enough to make this public IMO

Stephanie Li and Chris Thomas

Derek came from academia (he started Veritasium when we was a grad student IIRC), so I'm pretty sure somewhere deep down he finds the entire prospect of actually making things... grabbing and marketable... anathema to his sensibilities. Thus he needs to make videos justifying that project to himself. Because at the end of the day, Veritasium is no more 'clickbait' than Vox or the New York Times is. It's a really solid channel. I do think that on some level he might have that 'TV envy' that you see among some creators (i.e. he really wishes he was producing a TV show and not a YouTube channel) - and his comparing himself to Mr. Beast is a little weird (hell of a Jones to keep up with, as you say) - but I do think that his titles/thumbnails respect the intelligence of the audience, which is the personal metric that I judge 'clickbait' by. All of that said, your comments on 'when is enough?' were spot on, I feel. Internalized capitalism can be a hell of a drug.

shaq
>>66253488

As the person with the top comment on his video I was hoping you’d have the top tier context ty

Safe

i think my two biggest gripes are: like even with his 3x+1 example, finding that video down the line is a nightmare with a generic title like that. why not call it “Boring Title: Clickbait Subtitle”. clickbait just further makes the art of video making feel more fleeting and like the flavor of the week rather than a piece of work that can be returned to. also i think people overestimate it’s power, like with dunkey still pulling views. i think i saw a linus tech tips vid where he said they saw a 10% increase in views by clickbaiting which is like, ight i’d rather keep my integrity. especially cause 10% of rich is still rich. plus back to 1 now when i wanna see the LTT benchmark reviews for a GTX 2070 to influence my buying decision i have to remember that the video was called “we have NEVER seen this BEFORE ?!”

Mim Franklin

Thanks, I really enjoyed this. BTW, personally I don't feel hard done by if you take this public instead of 'exclusive content'.

Will Surrette

I saw the math problem video, watched it, decided I hated this guy and his smugness, and then more or less blocked future recommendations of his channel. He's a bad imitation at what Mark Rober does. Who called you an idealogue?