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Not sure if I can explain this well but a lot of YouTube videos nowadays start with a small clip of the video itself. Does anyone know why this trend started? Is it an algorithm strategy?

Maybe most people like it, but it's It's very off putting for me and I find myself having to skip most intros.

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[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is a teaser. It's to invest you in the rest of the video, will you wait to see it unfold to get to the teaser. This used to be a mainstay of the nightly news, back when people used to watch television. They put the most sensational thing in the first 30 seconds of the broadcast, and then in the last few minutes they'd go over the sensational thing.

An international conspiracy to poison your children, but first let's look at this week's weather.....

Think of it as the original clickbait, where instead of clicking you had to wait for the story to unfold.

On the short video platforms, like TikTok, Instagram, it's the videos that say watch until the end! The same b*******

[โ€“] otp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

The worst on short video platforms is when they give away the twist.

It's a ten second video of a cat doing something funny. I'm already watching it. I don't need text and a bunch of emojis overlayed over the video, telling me I NEED to see what happens when something unexpected happens to the cat.

[โ€“] peter@feddit.uk 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To grab people's attention, or because YouTube started autoplaying videos in the mobile app when you scroll past them so they need something to make you click at the start. If you use SponsorBlock you can skip recaps like that

[โ€“] blaine@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

@peter

@PixTupy

+1 for SponsorBlock. I absolutely hate when videos spoil themselves within the first 3 seconds thanks to those fucking intros.

[โ€“] ilovetacos@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Traditional TV shows did it sometimes. Just a way to hook the viewer I think.

[โ€“] Million@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Tonight on bottom gear!

The hamster runs in a wheel...

The turtle eats a vegetable...

And the orangutan smashes a window...

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago

Does anyone know why this trend started?

Reality shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

As someone who browses almost exclusively 9n my phone, I appreciate having a moment to pause it, flip my phone sideways, and adjust the resolution because YouTube always defaults to crappy.

[โ€“] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Sometimes it might just be to make the video longer (filler.) I hate seeing a 10 minute video that could have been 4 minutes or explained in a short paragraph (written text.)