Youtube videos with fake thumbnails.....

[9erempiree]

Anybody notice this trend. It takes away from what YT use to be. Every time I am looking for wrestling videos, these kids would post a fake thumbnail and the video would be them playing their video game.

Or when I look for highlights of sports, it would be a video of them doing a review on it.

They need to stop letting these people put these thumbnails to deceive us, just so they can take advantage of the monetary system of YT.

[Meticode]

People and their f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking whining. You get a free service like YouTube and still find something to whine about. F[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ckity f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck.

[9erempiree]

People and their f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking whining. You get a free service like YouTube and still find something to whine about. F[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ckity f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck.

It is more about people stealing off YT then me complaining.

[Meticode]

It is more about people stealing off YT then me complaining.

[MadeFromDust]

The worst is those videos that pretend it's a highlight video but it's just a series of pictures and sometimes just one picture for like 5 minutes lol

No.

The worst is those hot chick in a bikini vids but you watch the whole vid and there is nothing even remotely resembling the thumbnail/preview

[JohnFreeman]

When someone puts up NBA highlights with (HD) in the title, and it's 480p

[MastaKilla]

People and their f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]cking whining. You get a free service like YouTube and still find something to whine about. F[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ckity f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck f[COLOR="Black"]u[/COLOR]ck.

and look at you, whining about another person whining

shut up

[LONGTIME]

No.

The worst is those hot chick in a bikini vids but you watch the whole vid and there is nothing even remotely resembling the thumbnail/preview

Click bait rustles my jimmies.

[dunksby]

The worst is those videos that pretend it's a highlight video but it's just a series of pictures and sometimes just one picture for like 5 minutes lol

Link to the highlights are in the damn DESCRIPTION, uploader must have thought 5 minutes of playing just one pic was enough time for you to notice
FYI most highlights fall under copyright so they can't be posted on YT, people link to their own websites/blogs where they have hosted the vid.

[DwnShft2Xcelr8]

The more views the uploader gets, the more money the uploader gets.
If they can simply get you to click the link and watch just 2-3 seconds of it, it still counts as a video view. Enough people do it and suddenly that uploader's YouTube account looks popular. And that's when advertisers come.