For me it’s Skallagrim. This is a channel of a guy who specializes in ancient armory and weaponry, he also reviews swords and stuff that’s sold online and tests them. Pretty cool.

But then I started to not like him for some reason and it took me a while to put my finger on it. Until I saw the video where he tried criticizing weapons in video games. Then that was where I found problems with him as a channel.

His personality comes off very pretentious and one of those pseudointellectuals you know, who try sounding smarter than they really are. He even has the voice tone to back that with.

So yeah I really once loved his channel. Though whenever he goes on tirades about things that are meant for fantasy purposes which aren’t supposed to make sense when translated to reality, as well as try to poke at fictitious things that borrow from ancient history, I feel he misses the plot of his entire channel and why people like me once subscribed to it.

We didn’t subscribe to your channel for your stupid takes on - anything. We subscribed because you seem to know your melee weapons and historical backgrounds of said weaponry. Stick to those.

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      11 hours ago

      Yea he said they do basically A/B testing and their user base is so large they get to see in real time what works and what doesn’t.

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      Yesnt. Channels are A/B testing different thumbnails to see which ones work better. It can have massive effects.

      It’s not a simple “thumbnail gets changed, get more clicks”

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      17 hours ago

      I did this on one of their videos just last week. Annoyed the piss out of me. I think they changed the title too.

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        16 hours ago

        Wouldn’t surprise me to know they changed the title. I haven’t seen it personally as the people I follow seem to be honest. But it doesn’t surprise me given that clicks increase revenue.

        Even news headlines change if they’re not seeing uptake at what they think they should be for a particular story