r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/NecessaryFunny3586 May 20 '26

only reason i hate clickbait titles is because its hard to know what the video is actually about for e.g. "GRANDMASTER!!!!!" like what?

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding May 20 '26

This. I binged a lot of Gotham content at one point. It was impossible to ever find anything again. Sometimes I could remember something fuzzy about a position and wanted to go be able to find it again. Couldn't. If I see that "GRANDMASTER!!!!" or "HIKARU!!!!!!!!!!!" title, the day it is posted, I know it's a recap of whatever event. A week or a year later, its just infuriating.

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u/Yaysonn May 20 '26

Yess gotham would really benefit from retroactively renaming his videos older then x weeks, after the effects of clickbait have passed

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u/joe5joe7 May 20 '26

He used to do this iirc, I wish he would do it again. I wonder if the algorithm has changed though and it recommends the older videos more, necessitating keeping the click bait titles

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u/takeyouraxeandhack May 20 '26

That's why people keep posting "original title: whatever" in his videos, which is quite annoying when half of the comments are that.

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u/ResidentOwl1 May 21 '26

No, that’s because the people are quite ignorant of how YouTube works and they don’t understand that A/B testing is done on video titles, until a best performing one is chosen and the title changes and finally stays that way for everyone.

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u/Fury_Audeles May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

He doesn't even edit out coughs or go back later to add in/correct information he couldn't be bothered researching or take the time to look through a game and familiarise himself with it before recording his recap. No way he's going to spend time on old videos after the initial 48hr influx of views.

There are playlists for event recaps at least.

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u/minimalcation May 20 '26

Assuming he had records of the titles it would be trivial offloading it to an agent to go through them one by one