It's becoming pretty common even for good content. Weird, thanks internet.

It's annoying that it's that way but I try not to blame the creators for that. If you want to play the game you have to do it that way.

This is also true for the clickbaity thumbnails with the creators face and some shocked face expressions where people confirmed that they perform way better than "professional" and clean looking ones.

That sounds like a problem with your heuristic, there.

ETA: I once sarcastically said we need a technology so that links here are not described by anything that looks like a title due to all the people who get ridiculously outraged by any attempt to attract their attention.

Maybe I was on to something. Too many of you don't read or watch past titles.

Yes, we have right-wing channers infesting the place, we have a constantly declining level of tech competence in the comments, we have people who never actually read past a title, but it's Ann Reardon's YouTube titles that will destroy this community.