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Same for YouTube videos!
Intro to their channel: 10 excruciatingly long seconds of annoying music with their logo.
Description of video: Another 10-15 seconds
Then... "Please like and subscribe!"
Fuck no dude, I have no fucking idea if what you're about to tell me is useful or not.
How long has YouTube been around now, we fucking know how it works, yes like and subscribe.
Why the fuck does YouTube insist people keep parroting that same shit over and over again.
Can you imagine how much storage space they would save if everyone didn’t need to upload that same damn phrase in literally every video.
They do it because it works. Unfortunately.
With kids yeah, which is the main demographic that uses YouTube, as evidenced by the biggest YouTube channels
Works with adults as well, works on the majority of people, it's why they do it.
Yeah I hate to say it but it does remind me to do it.
I can name my 5 favorite youtubers for each of my interests and hobbies by name or channel name, I'm a grownup I know how to find what I want.
BUT I also want to support these people who make me my entertainment for free. I dont always remember to like their videos but I know its important for the algorithm to make them more money so when they say it I think "Yeah, if it means you can keep making a living off this shit... ok"
They're not doing it for free. The few that do it for free don't give a shit if you subscribe or not. The really successful ones make a ton of money.
Yes. Thats why I said "make a living".
The content to me is free, I dont have to pay to watch it.
It's good that you have something you enjoy. Personally, I think ads and annoyances are a worse form of payment than money.
Maybe we should end each comment we make with a footer that says, “If you liked this comment, please smash that upvote button!”
I mean, if you were getting paid for engagement, it was your primary source of income and your comments were hundreds, if not thousands of words long all the time? Sure.
Almost like it being a job makes people treat it differently or something.
Well, I’ve already gotten 4 upvotes, so I’m boot too far away from quitting my job and making this my career! I’ll get that shiny Lemmy Commenter Award and branded letter of recognition any day now.
And don’t forget to smash that upvote button!
Doesn't work for me, I haven't subscribed to a channel in over 6 years lol
SMASH THAT BUTTON!
Because it works. People do what they're told to do, they've been conditioned their whole lives to do it.
You've clearly never met a Scottish person. Or a French person, for that matter
The irony is that if they put it at or near the end of the video, after I have learned that I like whatever I watched, I am much more likely to do so, because I often really do just forget to like things, and a reminder near the end would in fact make me go 'yeah, this was good, I'll do that'.
But if they ask me to do it at the beginning, I won't do it until I have seen enough to decide I do in fact like it.
I've already left and found another video by that point. But I only use YouTube to learn specific tasks, not as entertainment.
Me too, drives me nuts people linking yt vids instead of articles. I can read the same amount of info that is contained in a ten minute video in about thirty seconds.
And fuck right off if the thumbnail looks like it was designed by a colourblind five year old