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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:25 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   Robert Reich doing that "Youtube Minstrel" face for his videos is the last straw. he may be having fun, but i draw the line with Youtube Minstrelsy.
   
   he’s just fucking annoying.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:20 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Jeremy Kahn
     • KimberlyN

     @trochee @KimberlyN @blogdiva

     I have a plugin that replaces all thumbnails with random stills from the video. I just don't want to play the game. I don't want second guess if I'm being influenced or over correct. It also replaces the titles with simple user-submitted descriptions with the aim of removing click bait and hype.

     The latter makes it much easier to find things I really want to see.

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:21 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     • myrmepropagandist
     • KimberlyN

     @futurebird
     Ugh I hate this so much

     Feels like an unpatched bug in the human wetware that is ruthlessly exploited by the YouTube recommender system

     @KimberlyN @blogdiva

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:22 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • KimberlyN

     @KimberlyN @blogdiva

     People are much more likely to click on a video with a human face, ideally expressing extreme emotion. If there are other images that suggest a story or *mystery* even better.

     This was true three years ago. I wonder if it is still true.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:24 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • KimberlyN

     @KimberlyN @blogdiva

     When they pose for the thumbnail with their mouth open and eyes popping out.

     Just mugging it up.

     This has been proven to increase engagement which I find deeply baffling.

     This guy at the ants forum changed his thumbnails so every one was him going sort of "WHOA" to a photo of an ant and his views jumped. That's about when I stopped making ant videos. I don't get it.

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     KimberlyN (kimberlyn@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:25 JST KimberlyN

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     @blogdiva

     I’m not sure what a “YouTube minstrel face” looks like. 🤷♀️

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:35 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Dan

     @dank

     I'm so deeply ad-blocked and click-bait blocked (and I don't really do things like Netflix or cable) that when I see an add on a screen on the subway I'm like a person from the past and horrified, scandalized, astonished, and generally much less able to cope than most people I think.

     Because it's the only video ad I've seen all week ... maybe longer.

     *clutching pearls*

     "A motion picture advertisement! What is this nonsense!?"

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Dan (dank@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:36 JST Dan

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     • myrmepropagandist

     @futurebird Sponsorblock is another must-have! open-source, community-curated auto-skipping for sponsor ad reads.

     https://sponsor.ajay.app/

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:39 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     • myrmepropagandist
     • Dan

     @futurebird @dank same! i only use YT via Freetube, and have used adblockers for +20 years now. and now have a VPN with filters. all of that and more to have a normal web experience, like before fucking google fucked things up with their SEO ponzi scheme. so it shocks when i see people raw dogging it AND with the chrome browser.

     literally wrote blog post when i was invited to try it out and i was like, why? if it’s google’s it’s spyware.

     and here we are 🙄

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 11:29:24 JST Rich Felker

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     @blogdiva The last straw for me was him going all in on "blue MAGA".