Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread
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Thank you for reminding me what the ignore function is there for. There! Now I'll have much less blather to scroll past in every damn thread.
Does a headline with a negative get more hits in the YT algorithm?
It seems like it
I knew enough about the account to know it wouldn't be a critical or hate video, but yeah, more negative titles do help with hits. Because people love watching content from creators who despise the things they claim they like.
Yeah, I recently saw one for Thunderbolts* with the word 'Failure" in big bold letters. It was from a channel that's usually pretty even handed, but I skipped on it for the negative headline.
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Yes, the last couple productions didn't get as good of numbers as they wanted, but overall the franchise has still been doing incredibly well, and they're going to look at her overall performance. It's also worth keeping in the bigger picture of the entire streaming and movie industry, nothing is doing as well as it used to, so it's not like this all something unique to Star Wars.
But I think it's more than just making money. Like many of the terrible DC films made money but eventually the fact that movies like Suicide Squad and Batman vs Superman were bad ended up having a negative long term impact on the franchise. Quality is very important IMO to long term success. Also sometimes you need massive success stories and not just middling hits. Even though their have been some good Star Wars movies under Kennedy she has not really had many of the home run style hits we saw in the MCU. It's kind of telling that 2 out 3 of it's best successes were on tv. That would be The Mandalorian and Andor with Rogue One basically being the best movie they have done but Rogue One doesn't hold up to a Iron Man or avengers or Guardians etc. Just being watchable is not enough.
Yes. People love bleeding headlines either to argue with or confirmation bias that this is a failure.
This may just be me, but if a creator I like and follow starts posting clickbaity thumbnails and titles, then I'm unfollowing them. I have little time for pandering of any kind, and if they're misrepresenting their actual content just to drive engagement, then that's actually worse as I just straight up loose all trust and respect for them.
So yeah, not clicking on that video, and avoiding that channel in the future!
ETA: Oh and it looks like that channel's avatar is made with generative AI. That upgraded it from a disregard to a block!
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Failure*
And quality she's doing pretty well too, there were a couple things people weren't thrilled with, but the vast majority of what she's done has gotten good to great reviews.
'The Painful Truth Andor Season 2 Teaches Every Writer'
Well put together video - found it both informative and insightful - and certainly packed a lot into the 8 minute run-time. Nice one.
'Ghorman Architecture Defies the Empire: Architect Reviews Andor' - a 9 min video from Morphologis...
The blurb: 'Architecture can tell a story, but sometimes it can say something so meaningful that it transforms the story taking place within it. There's just such a place in Ghorman's capitol city.'
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I want Lucasfilm to do an overhaul of the entire saga and add a second shadow to every person, structure and object on Tatooine.
The top pic looks like a mom walking in on her son smoking weed.
Which usually ends in, "scoot over, Son, gimme a hit of that."
You must have had a cool mom!