So what is fake news?
Fake news is news, stories or hoaxes created to deliberately misinform or deceive readers. Usually, these stories are created to either influence people’s views, push a political agenda or cause confusion and can often be a profitable business for online publishers. Fake news stories can deceive people by looking like trusted websites or using similar names and web addresses to reputable news organisations.
On YouTube, one of the biggest concerns is:
Clickbait: a piece of content that intentionally over-promises or misrepresents in order to pull users onto a particular website i.e. YouTube. Clickbait generally captures users with a snappy, sensationalist headline — such as “you won’t believe this”, or “you’ll never guess what happened next” — but then fails to deliver on the user’s implicit expectations.
YouTube isn’t “stripping” away the creator’s ability to post
One particular video caught the attention of almost every major creator and the community-at-large, reigniting conversation about the growing problem.The video was by content creator Carmie Sellitto, who goes by touchdalight on YouTube. Entitled “One Kill = One Clothing Removed With My 13-Year-Old Sister,” the video shows Sellitto’s friend and fellow YouTuber, Millie T, removing an article of clothing if he gets a kill in the popular battle royale game “Fortnite”. But here’s the most (SHOCKING) piece of info, he’s in no way related to him, and she’s certainly not 13.
If you’re asking me? It helps the content creators but in a bad way
The main reason why people use clickbait titles on YouTube is to get more video views. If one of your goals is to simply get more views, using a clickbait title along can help you get them. Youtube also pays you simply by looking at the amount of people that have viewed, clicked, and liked your said video. Yea it's understandable people need to make money someway or another in life. Maybe they can't get a job or they never graduated college to get an efficent one. YouTube is their only source of money once they get themselves into a position where people would wanna click on your videos to start something that can be good or bad. Most of the time it's bad.
So what do I do to become one of these AWFUL people?
The answer is not hard really. ANYONE can do it and so can you. Here’s how:
- Criticize something Popular
- Make some bogus criticism on a topic you like
- And, most importantly, be sure to add something along the lines of (ALMOST DIED) or (THIS FINALLY HAPPENED)
- webwise.ie
- smallbiztrends.com
- polygon.com
- buyviewsreview.com
- promolta.com
If there’s one thing that social media thrives on, it’s disagreement. Rather than agree to disagree, people love to debate about everything under the sun. If your video title alludes to an unpopular opinion of something popular, then even the people who love that trend most will click on your video.
To really grab your viewers’ attention, use your title to make an ostentatious claim. Make it unbelievable, obnoxious, or outlandish. However, don’t make such a claim without a purpose. After using the title to bring viewers in, use the video itself to say something worth listening to.
Make a side comment on your video title using parentheticals. Many vloggers use this trick to highlight the emotions of their videos. For example, if you made a vlog about going to an amusement park, then you may title it “Girl With A Fear Of Heights Rides Roller Coasters (scary).” If it wasn't already obvious enough since you added that in the (), well make it even more provocative by saying IN the thumbnail that you'll never believe what this person did in the video.
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