I’m no Mr beast fan, but the dystopia you feel isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of our society. It’s the fact that some people have to rely on a clickbait youtubers generosity to have vision surgery, instead of it being freely available. It’s the fact that inequality is so rampant and ever growing due to our infinite capacity for greed.

I mean you nailed it. It’s entertainment - validation for people who want to buy the shiny new Apple thing. “Look how cool it looks in these artsy shots”, forgetting it’s a carbon copy of last year’s model.

Most obvious comment ever. I wish this were the answer to everything, but its not,

Interesting point about tourniquets is that improper use can be worse than just not using one. If it’s tied too loose you compress the superficial veins but not the deeper arteries, increasing blood loss.

Its Deus Ex time

Sadly I don’t think boycotting clickbait channels is a solution at this point. First, because almost every Youtuber does it. Second, even if you boycott it, it will remain a shockingly effective strategy. Case in point, after installing this extension I was shocked as to how little I wanted to click on videos - clickbait works.

CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he’s just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.

For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled “How machines like ChatGPT learn” - despite coming out before GPT.

The extension allows you to keep the original thumbnail or a random frame from the video is a community-submitted thumbnail is unavailable.

Can vouch this extension is amazing. I started using it when it had 200 chrome downloads and it was already had many prominent creators in its database.

Title and thumbnail replacements are based on community votes, just like sponsorblock.