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Laurie Wired (among others) has made me aware of my kink to have pretty, intelligent women gently explain complex concepts to me.
Oh. Thanks.
Can someone explain Laurie Wired to me? I see her in my recommendations sometimes, but I don’t click obvious clickbait.
Take this one, is it actually a design flaw or is it just a compromise that was made for good reasons and is kept around for those same reasons?
Maybe I’ll watch the video and report back, can always remove it from my watch history.
Edit: It’s an hour? Not like I won’t watch hour-long videos, but that’s a lot to figure out if it was clickbait or not.
Its not clickbait, its a very deep dive. Her viseos are long because they explain stuff at a low level.
The title is objectively clickbait though, even if she does eventually explain the design flaw. But I think if she’s doing an hour on the history of RAM design, she could be honest about that.
This is probably a matter of taste, but I can’t sit through 58 minutes of slow buildup just to get to “ram has to refresh, that takes 300 nanoseconds sometimes, you could eliminate that at the hardware level by making all ram twice as expensive”
Thanks Laurie, but you don’t have to pretend all ram is fundamentally broken to make me watch an hour of maths and engineering. 3blue1brown does that all the time with titles like “What is a laplace transform?” and thumbnails of plain formulas on black backgrounds.
She explains the issue in the first 5 minutes
Finally got around to watching (half), and she does explain it and gets into some real interesting technical stuff, so I judged too soon.
I think she’s doing herself a disservice by opening with the dramatic reenactment though, because I bounced off on that, also on an earlier video. There’s not really a gradual buildup either, so someone who actually likes the drama will get a cold blast of RAM spec sheet right after and likely stop there. Better to let everyone know what they’re getting into at the start, right?
Or just dont be biased
Is it biased to judge a video by its thumbnail, title and first few minutes? Especially if it’s a video of an hour that’s front loaded with fluff, I don’t have any reason to assume the rest of the hour will be worth my time. The longer the video, the more important it is to show you’re not just padding for length.
All of her thumbnails are literally:
90% of youtube thumbnails have a face in them, usually of an exaggerated emotion, and that goes for both male and female youtubers. Many youtubers have confirmed time and time again that the algorithm favors faces by a pretty wide margin, and thus most play that game.
I’m not a fan of it, I wish they didn’t or the algorithm was changed to not favor it, but I understand why they do it. Though I don’t think it’s particularly gendered as your image claims.
Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.
Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.
Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:
- No face
- Indirect faces for a video game
- No face
- Face looking away, subject of video
- Not really faces
- Faces from video game subject
- Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
- No face
- Faces, but the main focus of the video
In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:
- Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
- Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
- Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation
Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:
- Earlybird
- Maangchi
- Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion “reaction face”
- CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much
Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?
Maybe you should just stop using the internet if the presence of a woman makes you this mad.
She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.
Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.
I don’t need to install DeArrow. I just don’t subscribe to YouTubers that rely on clickbaity thumbnails and titles.
