• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    My favorite part about his videos is that every 5 minutes, the thumbnail seems to change. They SEO the shit out of the thumbnails, it is insane. I don’t know if there is a way to see every thumbnail used on a YouTube video without actively pulling it every few minutes and saving a copy, but I know his thumbnails are constantly changing. This was one of the alternates on that video:

    This is the current thumbnail for the followup video he made:

    They’re all so unhinged.

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        Because the people who watch them are like 9-year-olds. They have no concept of reality yet. According to him, his metrics are all fucked because 90% of the time kids are watching him on their parents’ YouTube accounts.

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      3 months ago

      Turbo lib science channel Veritasium did a video about changing images and titles to do SEO and they demonstrated pretty clearly that it works and that every YouTuber should definitely do it. So I’m not surprised that Mr. Beast does…most of the top YouTubers almost definitely do

    • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      At one point he tested open mouth soyface vs closed mouth uncomfortable smile and found that a toothy grin drew 0.5% more clicks, leading him to update the thumbnail of EVERY VIDEO to a toothy grin

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      3 months ago

      YouTube makes it very easy to replace titles and thumbnails, there’s even a tool that let’s you test multiple different ones at the same time and pick what’s doing the best.

      I think Mr beast actually put out a tool that let’s you see all the changed thumbnails/titles videos have had.