• mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    It’s a couple things converging.

    1. Game devs have embargoes where they provide early access to content creators and then set a date when they’re allowed to talk about it. They publish as early as they allowed to but they’re contractually obligated to not publish a moment sooner.

    2. YouTube tends to show you streams or scripted videos about a certain game genre if you’ve watched even one video of that type before. So if you watch someone’s Day Z video you’re gonna see recommended videos like this.

    3. Some creator discovered they get like 3 times the views if they have a conspicuous gun in the frame of the thumbnail. The only way to do that in a lot of extraction shooters is to reload the gun (or do the weapon inspect action if the game has that) and take a screenshot mid animation, so now they all do it.

    Hence you get similar content and similar thumbnails at the same time.