#related: that dickwad that keeps setting the thumbnail on gamechamp's vg myths videos | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dravidious · 2 days ago

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I really do appreciate the idea behind DeArrow but I really wish it had a block button because some of these people should not be writing titles. Like,

Is it really that bad to phrase a title as a question?

Putting more details in the title doesn't actually improve it

Jesus fucking christ your hyper-descriptive title doesn't even FIT!!

#original #dearrow #not sure which is worse #when the title is perfectly fine but some dickwad is like “hmm but i would prefer to phrase it like this instead”#or when the title DOES need replacing but some dickwad decides it needs to be a whole fucking paragraph that doesn't even fit #these people think videos should be titled like scientific papers #my philosophy is that 1) there needs to be something actually wrong with the title (important info missing or misleading title)#2) the original title should be maintained as much as is reasonable (the “author likes math” example actually did a good job of this)#and 3) limited maximum length (“author likes math” example did a HORRIBLE job of this)#related: that dickwad that keeps setting the thumbnail on gamechamp's vg myths videos #they keep setting it to a screenshot of “Mission Complete” which shows you absolutely nothing about what the actual video will look like #it's like all they care about is the end result of the challenge #also the classic “this title must NOT be phrased as a question!!”#like fuck off it's fine #they even take “VG Myths” out of the titles like dude wtf? what's wrong with a series having a title?#thinking about turning off user-submitted titles because these idiots can't behave #this extension is supposed to fix unclear/misleading titles not for you to personally adjust every title to your preferences #phrasing a title as a question does not count as clickbait #and personality isn't clickbait either! sometimes these people just decide to suck the soul out of a perfectly fine title #no emotion no personality no cleverness it must be a bland description of the events of the video #events which we could have ALREADY INFERRED FROM THE ORIGINAL TITLE #some titles withhold information to get you to click #some titles are substanceless emotion or jokes that tell you nothing #some titles are actively misleading #THOSE are the titles that DeArrow is for #“this guy didn't tell me how many throws it took him to beat pikmin 1” is not withholding information #you know exactly what the video is about

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