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~~⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!~~

~~Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.~~

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~~If you post videos from Youtube/LTT, please please un-clickbait the titles. (You can use the title from https://nitter.net/LTTtranslator/ but it doesn't seem to have been updated in quite some while...)~~

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youtube algorithm, its more or less been true that it increases viewcount, hence why channels run for profit will do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do it so they can get clicks from curious kids mindlessly browsing through, it's easy money if you are willing to sacrifice your self-respect