[Fixed] New Video Tomorrow! Title/thumbnail selection today

Hi veritasium, I watched your video about click bait yesterday. And I don’t, completely feel that your recent videos covers/titles are good. Today your videos and what you talked about kept coming to my head. I am not sure if this comment will reach you, given the sheer number of them. I think your covers will decide what type of “interest” you will arise, and if the audiences, at the time of clicking, are not willing to learn, to know, or to listen, the way you presented the content may not suit them. It’s a “style” problem. If your cover uses a click bait, but the content, as usual, delivers in a 20 minute academic style backed with statistics and research papers, it’s going to bore many of the audiences out. (As they might be interested in the fun and clicked on videos mostly because they’re internet surfing for some or other reasons) I’d call this a “curiosity gap” as well. And I personally think that this is due to two things/problems: 1)as I mentioned above. Audience & style. 2)I think veritasium, your recent videos, some aren’t really good. Or at least, to a single audience who had no previous knowledge on the topic, and has some interest to find out and listen through the most half of it, eventually drop off unfortunately. I will come back to my second point in a second. I personally feel an aversion to the exaggerated words, for instance "biggest myth", "why should you", “genius”, etc. Hence when you showed the covers before and after, I don't think one is definitely"better/superior" than another. I think you can create your own style of videos. And your style will “generate” the audience. Generate the learning environment and atmosphere. Generate affinity towards your style. I agree that it is important to make people click on things, so I think the direction is good, but the way you go around the set-up may not be. Here is what I think a knowledge-based video cover&title may look good with “https://youtu.be/UOaHUqZAeaU”, it both acts as a click bait but also informs the audience the type video, so audiences will be prepared to listen. The title simple utilises a piece of curious information from the interview. It says”how smelly can corpses be? Mortician answered”I cant order aged beef at the restaurant” It arise interest by pointing to a surprise/conflicting belief. So second point. Here I want to reference how my opinion is shaped, it's from this video (I managed to almost finish it), the maths 3x+1 video (half way), and the learning style video (three quarter of the way). Previously the black hole video, the flame and air current video, the plasma video, and many more like the research paper one, I love them. Although I can finish your videos with determination, I am saying these because I want to hint that some may not. To be brief I think the information is too chunky, not concise, and the core/key question is not clear enough. To start with, the maths 3x+1 video framed it as a “problem”, “no one” can solve. But watching around half way of the video I was still quite lost in track what is The “problem”. I certainly have heard about what it is, but why is it a “problem”? What are you trying to find out? Which part makes every mathematician puzzled by it? Secondly the chunky bits, that’s with this video and the learning style one. 20 minutes are simply too long and after around 85% of the video I feel like I am not learning more, or rather, it gives me a feeling that these things can be told in a much shorter time. I quit them because I think that by watching the remaining few minutes, I could not be curioused, interested, or intellectually challenged. So I fast forwarded them. I personally think that the progress of debate and discussion: how much these hypotheses can be backed up or debated from evidence, needs to be more interesting and concise. The cash note one and risk taking video was really interesting though. I have been subscribing to your channel, and clicking on things that interests me from time to time for several years now. I remember you’re in concern about the video attraction before, I’m not sure if it was the millions of black ball videos that you mentioned it.—- okay here I am promoting myself to say that I am familiar to you to some extent, although also not to an extent of a fervent subscriber. I have been a small patron on your channel before, 50% because I want to get the ball, basically; other 50% was genuine support. I also watched your biography, and from there your very very early videos and your journey. I was once surprised to know that you’re Australian because same here. I hope this comment finds you. :) @Veritasium Well I copied my comment from YouTube. I couldn’t find my patreon email so I gave up and signed up for a new one. I am sorry I don’t feel like wanting to be a long term supporter yet… I am still a young student and I am literally surviving.

Now I'm not sure if I should search for "confirmation bias debunked".

Daniel Welsh