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.
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
Traditional TV shows did it sometimes. Just a way to hook the viewer I think.
Tonight on bottom gear!
The hamster runs in a wheel…
The turtle eats a vegetable…
And the orangutan smashes a window…
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.
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.)
