"The epistemic commons feels bleak": creators lament YouTube's clickbait thumbnail takeover
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-07
ScholarsStage complains YouTube has become nearly unusable, with almost every video sporting overproduced "You were LIED TO about X" giant-head thumbnails he now deliberately avoids. AndyMasley adds that browsing popular podcast pages makes him bleak about the epistemic commons — this is what people's information diets look like now.
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