In 1969 Neil Armstrong announced a safe touchdown on the moon with the words 'The Eagle has Landed'. "Eagle" was the name of the Lunar Module, the spacecraft...
I actually do know Scott’s stuff very well and respect him alot, ever since his KSP days. But this title is still pretty click baity, and I’m rather disappointed that he along with a lot of other good YouTubers all have been increasing the baity titles along with the Face + outrageous background thumbnail thing lately just to work the algorithm.
There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.
To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I’m sure you don’t intend this.
Headlines, titles, thumbs don’t really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I’d rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.
You’re absolutely right, I couldn’t agree with you more. My bad on “judging a book by its cover”.
I probably should tone down the old curmudgeon stuff. I’d just recently realized how much I missed very good content by Mentour Pilot just because his titles and thumbnails were also very YouTube algorithm-y, but his content is fantastic. Just need to accept this is how good content avoids being buried under all the brainrot junk.
I actually do know Scott’s stuff very well and respect him alot, ever since his KSP days. But this title is still pretty click baity, and I’m rather disappointed that he along with a lot of other good YouTubers all have been increasing the baity titles along with the Face + outrageous background thumbnail thing lately just to work the algorithm.
There is bad clickbait out there and we do have to remain skeptical. So much is actively harmful.
To dismiss good content because it seeks an audience is to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Indeed, by dismissing higher quality content as clickbait you can unintentionally elevate the true clickbait by putting them on the same level. I’m sure you don’t intend this.
Headlines, titles, thumbs don’t really matter if the content is valuable. This video really was pretty good! I’d rather 14 y/o nerds or whoever watch this than some SpaceX worship or whatever other similar junk might be out there.
You’re absolutely right, I couldn’t agree with you more. My bad on “judging a book by its cover”.
I probably should tone down the old curmudgeon stuff. I’d just recently realized how much I missed very good content by Mentour Pilot just because his titles and thumbnails were also very YouTube algorithm-y, but his content is fantastic. Just need to accept this is how good content avoids being buried under all the brainrot junk.
Thanks for the reminder, cheers.