All those floats. They don’t ever want a Liberty Bell 7 repeat 
Helicopters are so 
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All 4 helicopters on deck
Thumbs up from Victor
Christina waving
All 4 on their way to medical bay:
Jeremy
Christina
Victor
Reid
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None took a wheelchair but the guys looked a bit wobbly
T-shirts 
, toilets 
and Windows 
issues aside, what a textbook mission!
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Can’t have it all, but it has certainly been a great success.
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Insert mario kart joke about balloons and blue shell suits here.
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I was watching the livestream as this happened and immediately wondered… was Christina rolling something with that paper in her hands for the rest of the crew to celebrate with when breaking the distance record? Joy Train Moon Joy
LoL 420
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I don’t think being high and smoke in a cabin under pressure would be a good idea
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Given that the CO2 filters were probably not designed with smoke in mind, glowing tobacco is a completely unpredictable hazard in zero-G (it’s not going to fall to the floor), there’s probably strict rules about intoxication in place, and they’d have had to live with the smell in their ventilation system all the way back, I’d say that’s probably a no… 
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I saw that one in my recommendations too, and it’s exactly the type of thumbnail that I will not click. (I watched it here because Todd recommended it.)
If he’s not lying / making stuff up / yellow press, why does he use clickbait style?
The part with the satellites was interesting, thanks for posting it. (I’ll just fast-forward through the fillers ;-P)
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Hank and his Brother have been making internet content since the very early 00’s, they may even be one of the first to find success online through the avenue of breaking down complex science into easily understood language for everyone. They didn’t really come into prominence until they jumped from blogging to youtube in 2006.
Unfortunately the industry is what it is and they too have had to play the thumbnail game but it also scratches one of Hanks itches which is analytics, he gets very obsessed with trying to put in to numbers what can game the algorithm and seeing the outcome of different tests and controls.
You can trust Hank Green, while the game may have changed, the way they deliver their content (beyond a thumbnail and headline) has remained more or less unchanged, he even still starts most videos by saying “Good Morning Johnathon.” because originally, it was two brothers uploading vlogs for eachother while living apart for the first time in their early adult lives.
They were early pioneers of vlogging, before it became about the individual showing off their “perfect” lives and was more about the content being discussed. Since then they’ve gone on to launch many science based learning programs and channels across various platforms and mediums. I think their most well known might be Crash Course and SciShow, though I’ve never actually watched those. I prefer the OG vlog format and check in with them now and then if it’s a topic that interests or confounds me.
I actually meant to say “skip to X” to get to the subject matter of the video.
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Because he needs to eat, probably. If you’re making a living on youtube, you have to. It’s not just that more people will click on a clickbaity title. It’s becasue the algorithm has built-in heuristics to evaluate how “in demand” a video is going to be, and it pushes those it deems having a better chance to get more views. In other words, since more people click on videos with clickbait titles, the algorithm is much more likely to recommend videos with clickbait titles, which makes it much more likely for videos with clickbait titles to get clicked. It’s a self-enforcing feedback loop.
Add to that that if just one of your videos doesn’t do well, the algorithm is much less likely to recommend your next few videos. One video with few views can bury a channel for weeks.
So don’t get mad at serious creators that do clickbait titles. It’s essentially an undocumented requirement of youtube by now. You can’t make life-sustaining amounts of money without them. What this leads to, of course, is that video titles are more and more simply aiming at gaming the algorithm. The time when video titles will have jack-all to do with their actual content and are solely aiming to please the machine isn’t very far off anymore.
It’s probably one reason why some creators have started to display complementary titles in the thumbnail, because the actual title just isn’t saying anything anymore. Of course, it’s only a matter of time until they need to become clickbaity too…
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Another thing creators on youtube started doing, was changing their thumbnail/title every few days to catch people who may have passed it on the first round, which youtube has now incorporated into its systems with the A/B function and it will give you statistics specific to your thumbnail change…
This has actually messed me up because I will try find a video I’ve watched but didnt finish, and when searching through my history, havea hard time finding it because the title and the thumbnail have completely changed.
Youtube even has an AI function now that “reimagines” a better thumbnail for your video. So if you’ve ever seen a no mans sky video that has a thumbnail containing imagery from a game that isn’t any actual game but mimics NMS somewhat… the calls are coming from INSIDE the house. It’s called “Brainstorm Ideas”… I’ll include some of the ones it tries to push on me from my recent streams (which are purely for my own archival purposes and bemusement before any sort of notions like channel growth etc)
We let the worst user habits and instincts rule the roost, unfortunately. It really is one of those “don’t hate the player, hate the game”, type situations. But I always had problems with that saying, since the players perpetuate the game.
If we could all just collectively stop giving in to its demands for like… a few months. Nah who am I kidding, nothing would change XD
If you want anyone to blame for the current gamification of “Audience Retention”, look no further than Mr. Beast. Not only has he made a mockery of what charity is, he’s maybe fried the brains of many people in younger generations.
Recently I’ve been revisiting Outer Wilds, I never played the DLC and held off going near it for two reasons. It was nice to know I had new outer wilds to experience, but also worried it would somehow detract from everything that already exists in the game or pale in comparison…
I wanted to record my playthrough as it is a game people can only re-experience vicariously through other peoples playthroughs, something I do myself every few months.
This is the suggestions for thumbnails and titles from youtubes “brainstorming” feature. All of it clickbaity, none of it truly accurate to the point or purpose of my streams.
Or these ones, which are related to me making that video tutorial for using in-game objects to clone a 3d model from blender into NMS with minimal artistic effort on my part.
It’s just straight up asking me to lie about whats possible with this XD
And I think thats the other worrisome thing… We’ve thought gemini that its absolutely fine to lie and smudge the facts, people in the highest offices of the world do it ALL the time, so it must just be normal human stuff eh?
I know it’s all calculation for ad revenue. The goal is not to provide us with quality entertainment.
I support youtubers and twitch streamers who make a living of it and who do not use clickbait. They exist, it’s your choice who you support or boycott, not youtube’s. 
I know, don’t remind me… That style is flat-out the “don’t click me” anti-bat-signal of thumbnails for me. Complete boycott on my part. Along with yellowpress headlines.
The afore-mentioned science guy, I at least give him a second chance. Many science creators hate clickbait themselves (their thumbnails are a cutout of themselves talking over a photo of the subject). I’m only slightly annoyed at their overuse of 
faces.
The clickbait starts with arrows at nothing/red circles around nothing in the thumbnail (which used to be normal, until they lost their meaning) and these mindnumbing hollow titles.
(what I mean by hollow)
By hollow I mean these primitive attention-grabber sentences with purposeful gaps in the meaning, to make your mind fill in what you are interested in. Like “you will not believe what happened” in place of simply stating what happened, so I do not get to make a choice whether I want to read it before clicking it.
Or “They don’t want you to know” or “Scientists are shocked”, these titles also imply someone is sharing special secret important knowledge that we mustn’t miss… can’t tell ya unless ya click tho. 
They get paid for clickthrough and not for having content… hollow pays.
Agreed. But I don’t support players who play the bad game best.
I’ve been fighting internet addiction for years and not clicking recommendations is part of it. (I’m not even logged in while watching yt.) For me personally, a lot has changed for the better since not giving in to those demands. 
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The gap headlines have gotten way out of hand, and its annoying because if they just said what it was, I would have clicked anyway, but once I read what its about I immediately exit the website and add them to my blacklist.
E.g “incredible game series announces new entry” or “long dead franchise makes triumphant return”
And its usually just an announcement for a merch tie in, or a comic or a soundtrack re release.
Its really annoying because I will buy soundtracks, but no headline is ever saying “new vinyl release from game franchise X” so because of these headlines, Im actually missing out on news and notifications I might actually like to hear about, but Ive stopped clicking those headlines entirely because I know theres no new game or big announcement like the headline seems to insist.
If I didnt know about Hank Green and his history, Id probably never click on any of their videos in this day and age. It makes it hard to find new people with interesting videos too.
I remember seeinf a plugin a while ago that automatically changes all youtube thumbnails to just a screenshot from the video, and I think it changes the headline to a basic description of what the video actually is… I wish I could remember what it was called.
I think someone posted about it here actually, it may have even been you
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Completely agree.
That plugin could have been me, but it wasn’t. I experience the full unhidden ugliness so I can whine about it!! 
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Google is about to lose me completely some time this year. Not just Google actually. I have been customising my YouTube experience for ages already. Running my own CSS and script injections to rid of loads of BS I don’t care about. It’s a fight I am unable to win unless I stop using it altogether, so that’s what I’ll do next 
Plugin? Plenty choice nowadays, even more so with everyone apparently having learned how to code quick scripts, extensions, and whatnot, right?! Unhook, DeArrow, ThumbnailMaster, etc.
AI being the downfall of the internet we once knew and loved …
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