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		GuB-42 on April 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form I remember seeing a tutorial on making stock pictures. Doing exaggerated expressions is their number one advise. The idea is that these pictures will be in a library of thousands, and it has to stand out, regular faces don't. It is not a YouTube thing. It happens even in traditional newspapers as they battle against each other in the newsstand.

Cthulhu_ on April 11, 2018 [–]

Newspapers did it before it was mainstream, with headlines that kept getting bigger and more screamy.

KozmoNau7 on April 11, 2018 | [–]

Tabloids are absolutely terrible for it. Gigantic fonts, garish colors, all caps all over the place.

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