Youtube already has quite an interesting clickbait detection mechanism. If the click ratio on a thumbnail is high, but the watch time low, it will be downranked as clickbait.
This means if the thumb/title is a bit sensationalist, but the content is still good, it could stay up. This leads to the current situation where slightly annoying titles and thumbnails are used, but the really egrious stuff gets filtered.
Yeah, ok. But I would really love it if content creators stopped putting kindergarten emotion faces on thumbnails. Replacing a doorknob will never require a level of emotion indicated by hands on cheeks eyes wide “Oh” face… So just please, please stop. I’ll even cave on shitty titles like “most people don’t know this” or “you’re doing X wrong” if it means that I can stop looking at people making stupid faces in every thumbnail
https://www.socialvideoplaza.com/en/articles/what-is-clickba...
This means if the thumb/title is a bit sensationalist, but the content is still good, it could stay up. This leads to the current situation where slightly annoying titles and thumbnails are used, but the really egrious stuff gets filtered.