alt Hacker NewsIt’s just people responding to incentives.
If you want to be profitable, or widely watched, you have to play to the algorithm.
YouTube seems to strongly boost channels that post regular videos in the 10-20 minute range, and actively incentivizes clickbait through AB Testing tools for titles and thumbnails.
There are channels that post irregularly, with long form videos, but they get buried.
> YouTube seems to
It seems to do a lot of things, but most of what people think it does is pareidolia.
> There are channels that post irregularly, with long form videos, but they get buried.
And there are channels that post irregularly, with long form videos, that consistently get millions of views.