Everything is as the Force wills it.And if it didn't have an obnoxious clickbaity thumbnail, I might have watched it for myself! Alas, 'twas not to be!
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)
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That's the only way to get real views on youtube now. You gotta live with it.And if it didn't have an obnoxious clickbaity thumbnail, I might have watched it for myself! Alas, 'twas not to be!
Or ignore it. Works for me.
I tend to avoid clicking on obvious bait, and especially anything with Ai thumbnails.
AI stuff sure I agree. But there are good channels with good content that use thumbnails like that because it’s the only way to surviveOr ignore it. Works for me.
I tend to avoid clicking on obvious bait, and especially anything with Ai thumbnails.
Likewise. Both for the principle of the matter, and to prevent the algorithm from flooding my recommendations with similar garbage.Or ignore it. Works for me.
I tend to avoid clicking on obvious bait, and especially anything with Ai thumbnails.
There are plenty of channels out there that manage to not resort to either of those things, and I would prefer to reward that behavior than enable the alternative.
I watched a couple of historical videos and all of the images were obviously AI, but the information content was solid. However, after that my YouTube feed was flooded with stuff with lots of similar videos, including obvious AI garbage disguised as body cam footage.
I haven't watched any of the behind the scenes stuff for The Mandalorian so I'm not sure how much it's addressed in those, but I do have to admit that is kind of annoying that they give so little recognition to Wayne and the other guys who are in the Mando suit most of the time. I feel the same way about David Prowse as Vader too. I know did get a fair amount of recognition within fan circles, but when it comes to the mainstream, all anybody talks about is how James Earl Jones played Darth Vader, which makes it sound like he did it all himself.
A cool thing about Japanese tokusatsu fandom is that the suit actors who play the various Kamen Riders and Sentai Rangers and Ultramen and whatnot have their own fan followings, because they're the ones who do the stunts year in and year out for decades while the on-camera actors come and go on a yearly basis -- and because they actually do a lot of skilled acting as well as stunt work, adjusting their body language to the different characters they play.
They should have had that out at Christmas. Tauntaun sled ride would have been thematically perfect for that time of year.
Oh, I see. Clydesdale tauntauns.
Really fun.
Yup. I recognized iy from Super Bowl ads of old. The whole thing was very silly.
...wait, was that Sam Elliot?
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