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There are millions and crores of channels on YouTube. Many creators also earn a good amount of money through this platform. In such a situation, many people create channels to earn from YouTube and then adopt various tricks to increase subscribers. One of these methods is clickbait thumbnails. Many users place a clickbait thumbnail on YouTube videos that is completely different from the content. Now YouTube is going to take big action on such videos.
YouTube is full of such videos on which the thumbnail is different from the original content. Creators place attractive clickbait thumbnails on videos to increase views. Now YouTube has decided to take action against such videos. YouTube said through its blog post that it is soon going to take strict action against such videos.
Let us tell you that clickbait thumbnail is the video title and cover page which gives information about the content of that video before it is played. Often, to get maximum views on the created video, clickbait thumbnail is used which is quite different from the original video. According to the YouTube blog, more action may be taken on videos with clickbait thumbnails which are especially related to breaking news or current events.
YouTube has also provided examples of clickbait thumbnails to illustrate what types of videos will be subject to action in the future.
A video whose thumbnail is – The President resigned from his post, but when the video is played, there is no truth in the news of the President's resignation or any information related to it is not given. YouTube will now take strict action against such videos.
Apart from this, videos with 'Top political news' thumbnail on YouTube, which do not include any news related to the thumbnail, will also be removed from the video streaming platform. According to YouTube, this will not be the first time that a strike will be imposed on the channel for clickbait thumbnails. First the company will remove the video.
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