Opens YouTube.Does anybody else purposely avoid videos with clickbait titles and the host making an expression like that?
Well, it got me.Opens YouTube.
Sees thumbnail suggesting "This changes everything!"
Watches video.
"Hmm. I don't feel like much has changed."
Rinse and repeat.
All kidding aside, I know a fair number of YouTube creators. Believe it or not, the giant-text-with-host-looking-quizzical thing is a proven strategy for views. So you and I may ignore them, but an awful lot of people are only clicking those videos.
Item number 2,354 on my long list of things I'll never understand about other people.