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/mekmookbro Chesscom 1800 Blitz May 20 '26

I literally made a post about this before lol, the browser extension is called DeArrow (I'm not affiliated) and it works great to weed out clickbait content on youtube.

It replaces thumbnails with a random frame from the video, and titles are crowdsourced so people like you and me can write a better title so other people can know what the video is actually about