I get him recommended all the time but his thumbnails and doomer titles don’t look appealing (they’re all 1/3 his face). In general, if all a Thumbnail/title elicits is some kind of emotionally loaded tired cliche (AI will kill us all, Reading is dead, We were this close to all being hacked by Jia Tan, Overpopulation, Underpopulation, the decay of [Art Form, Daily Pastime, Emotion, Other Noun], We Did Transgressive Investigative Journalism, Epic Scientist Battle of the Equations, you may add to gis list) I don’t watch it. If it promises cool news about topic, or personal story, I do. Also, I still hate Enrico Tartarotti for some insufficiently explained reason. (he made a video basically dissing vim at some point, and I don’t even know how to use vim)
I’ve tried clickbaity thumbnails/titles maybe three times in my YT career. They never seem to work well for me, so I just stick to the story.
But I also focus on tech, so some of the stories are pretty doomy, like the 404 leak this week about Muse’s hidden security vulnerabilities. The leak from Meta said their own engineers think a breach is inevitable. Very doomy… but also an important detail.
I wouldn’t call my thumbails doomy either, really.