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  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Youtube “pushes” whatever gets more views and longer watch time.

    No YouTube pushes what people will click on. They don’t care about the quality of the content, whether the people who watch it actually enjoy it (dislike = “engagement”), or what kind of content people are actually subscribed to because the ads come first.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Youtube “pushes” whatever gets more views and longer watch time.

      No YouTube pushes what people will click on.

      That’s pretty much what I said.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        No it’s not what you said. You specifically mentioned “longer watch time” where clickbait titles and thumbnails result in the opposite, but also plenty of ad views.