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> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last f

> Similar things happen to the thumbnails, which start containing more and more exaggerated, sometimes creepily-so, faces, reacting to absurd images that last for a fraction of a second in the video. There was a nice little examination of this phenomenon, dubbed YouTube Face, a couple of years ago. Article: https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/ https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-goi... HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803937

wirthjason 6y ago
In Japan so much of mainstream prime time TV programming is reactions videos. Often people reacting to food from another prefecture with a minimum of two picture-in-picture heads reach the to the video. My wife is addicted to YouTube videos / YouTubers and I think there’s a high degree of similarity. This content feels low quality and cheap to produce. I think that article captures this phenomenon well.
C1sc0cat 6y ago
That type thumbnails just scream desperate me to - the "one simple trick" of YouTube maybe. Not as bad as the hey watch me neck a bottle of spirits in one go idiots.