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.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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.