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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is cool but will any of it explain the most pressing MrBeast question: why does he smile like that? I'm assuming it's because he's always thinking about how terrible a person he is.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I believe its because they A-B tested his thumbnails, editors found that they vacuumed slightly more eyeballs when he was smiling, and updated the thumbnail images of him not smiling with photoshop.

The fault isn't with the photoshop though, he just doesn't have a soul so it actually looks like that when he smiles.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a ghoul’s impressionist rendition of an actual person

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I'm honestly obsessed with it because it's so baffling. It takes effort to make your smile look this fake, and dedication to stick with it year after year. There's no way he hasn't been told how bad it looks, and how he could simply squint his eyes just a tad and it would look so much more natural. It's got to be a choice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I keep hearing that stupid-face thumbnails generate more clicks and more and more people do it, and yet every single person you ask says they think it’s fucking stupid, including the creators themselves. I really wonder who these people they A-B test this with are, or if this is just some Google Autoplag Bot that estimates it’s better because it falls flat into their uncanny valley home territory.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The masses that watch his videos are not the people you'd find on Lemmy and probably not in your friend circle. They are people who click the videos on the YouTube homepage from their Smart TV and probably aren't even logged in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They A-B test it themselves. At least some do. You can actually run multiple thumbnails on YouTube for the same video and see what does best. Linus Tech Tips also did this manually and found the face ones do better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've heard the theory that dumb youtube-face impresses the algorithm itself, somehow. This causes the videos to surface at a higher rate, which leads to more eyeballs (but with a layer of indirection) even though no human actually prefers it. Sort of a reverse-slop situation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I had heard a bunch of positive press about him (the trees stuff, etc.) but didn’t look into him because why should I care about a youtuber? Then I found out he was part of the ghost kitchen craze and was selling candy bars. I saw his face on a supermarket standee and thought: that is mason verger after consulting a PR firm. That’s the pre-evolution of mitch mcconnell. Of course he does squid game shit to entertain children.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't clarify barring your teeth as a smile, but that's me. Someone told me to zoom in on his eyes. Real smiles touch the eyes. Does that look like a smile when you do that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dude is straight up Evil Cooper from Season 3 of Twin Peaks, but without the charisma.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Because of what he sees in the future