i’m a huge fan of howtobasic and… wow. that summary is perfect. no notes. the ai revolution is here.

  • maria [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    16 minutes ago

    gosh - that image makes the burgr look so flush. like - uts flush on all sides. vrry much not like what a real macondals beeschurger is like, but wia preddi gud advertising right here. i dooo kinda prefer ringed onions tho-

  • Hazzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    20 hours ago

    Honestly, I don’t hate the feature, it somewhat helps with the (YT created) problem of clickbait-y titles. But it hilariously has no understanding of satire that isn’t spelled out clearly, exactly as you’d expect.

    I’ve particularly enjoyed it summarizing some of Dunkey’s videos, thinking games like “Piglet’s Big Game” are proper horror titles. The feature would probably be better with community-driven descriptions, like twitter’s community notes. Which would admittedly be even more sarcastic about Dunkey’s videos, but at least the author would be in on the gag.

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      9·
      16 hours ago

      I think a lot of the authors dont even mean to be making clickbait.

      Climate Town has “Exxon’s $600 Million Dollar Lie”, with the description being copy-pasted info about sponsors, how to support the channel, etc. Absolutely nothing to indicate the premise of the video.

      Jack Saint has ‘“The audience are the REAL monsters.”’ Similar description, plus chapters.

      These are titles I understand after already having learned what the videos are about, but are unhelpful in conveying what the video is about.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Somebody who has a better theory of YouTube than I do can explain why videos often will start off with a more descriptive title and then change to a more vague clickbait title a few hours into existence.

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
          6·
          7 hours ago

          The clickbaity title gets more engagement. When you see the title and thumbnail change on a video after it’s already been uploaded, it’s usually the creator trying a different tactic as the video, probably, hasn’t gotten a lot of views, yet.

          Because YouTube has tied video making to employment, it’s simply not enough to just make a video as the algorithm can bury your future content or not recommend your type of video to people who may be your very audience, to begin with, if it gets the idea that those people aren’t interested in watching that content.

          F. D. Signifier has a video where he covers some of these techniques and why they work: https://youtu.be/ue5ULGzvSYE

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    20 hours ago

    Don’t see the problem here. Howtobasic has helped me a ton with random things around the house. Wish I didn’t have to throw so much raw meat around to do basic tasks but that’s adulthood for you.