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The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Difference Between a Title and a Thumbnail?

I think sometimes the clickbait, like, becomes anti-clickbait. We also are drawn to topics that will make a good title and thumbnail or something that's really clear. For example, the video we just published was, like, World's Strongest Magnet. So I've done a lot of these sort of superlative titles over the years. And there's just something about those titles which is simple, clear, obvious, and compelling to, I think, a large, a large audience.

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