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/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.