Hmmmm I personally think the title is better with the strikethrough (ignoring formatting problems) than without it, as it makes it more descriptive without obfuscating information or misleading about the content. All of these three title alternatives are less descriptive imo:
Gigi screams give me ear problems
Gigi screams give me life
Gigi screams give me ear problems / life
I guess we might just have different ideas of what counts as clickbait. The title isn’t deceptive or misleading about the contents of the video, doesn’t obfuscate important information for the sake of click-through (“one weird trick!” instead of saying the relevant keyword) etc. So to me there’s no “bait”.
It’s unfortunate that the strikethrough doesn’t render well on your phone though, it actually renders better on mine (it looks nearly “native”!) than on my PC lol. I’ve done a few character swaps in the past for the clip titles that use 𝓦𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 instead of normal characters - I guess I can start doing the same strikethrough, which I did already consider doing before I pressed submit but figured people would say if it didn’t work well (which you did!).
Hm, I see what you mean. I suppose a normal strikethrough would be fine, its just whatever strikethrough was used I literally could not read it at all. The title looked like:
“Gigi screams give me e████████████ life”
As you can probably see, this was extremely clickbait looking to me, thus my quite visceral reaction. A normal ~ strikethrough is fine, its just whatever character were used for it this time did not translate well on my device. Thank you for being considerate though.
Hmmmm I personally think the title is better with the strikethrough (ignoring formatting problems) than without it, as it makes it more descriptive without obfuscating information or misleading about the content. All of these three title alternatives are less descriptive imo:
I guess we might just have different ideas of what counts as clickbait. The title isn’t deceptive or misleading about the contents of the video, doesn’t obfuscate important information for the sake of click-through (“one weird trick!” instead of saying the relevant keyword) etc. So to me there’s no “bait”.
It’s unfortunate that the strikethrough doesn’t render well on your phone though, it actually renders better on mine (it looks nearly “native”!) than on my PC lol. I’ve done a few character swaps in the past for the clip titles that use 𝓦𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼 instead of normal characters - I guess I can start doing the same strikethrough, which I did already consider doing before I pressed submit but figured people would say if it didn’t work well (which you did!).
Hm, I see what you mean. I suppose a normal strikethrough would be fine, its just whatever strikethrough was used I literally could not read it at all. The title looked like:
“Gigi screams give me e████████████ life”
As you can probably see, this was extremely clickbait looking to me, thus my quite visceral reaction. A normal ~ strikethrough is fine, its just whatever character were used for it this time did not translate well on my device. Thank you for being considerate though.
Haha, totally understandable then
No worries, thanks for bringing it up!