Sneaky stuff fools so many people!! If you're over content farms, check out my new 'DEBUNKING' mugs & H2CT 'science lab' t-shirts: th-cam.com/users/howtocookthatstore 💕
This seriously needs to be addressed. Actual content creators are struggling with producing quality continent and getting views, when huge companies are abusing the system and making thousands of dollars on the way, not to mention endangering life's of others!
It sucks man. And happens everywhere with everything. Small businesses struggle while big corporations and companies thrive on subpar products and services
Don't click, it's the only way to starve the machine, scroll for something better, you can also block content farms from your feed one channel @ a time, if you have the patience.
I don't want to burst anyone's bubbles or upset anyone but here's the harsh reality, they get millions of views aka LOTS OF MONEY so youtube get a lot of money as well so they do jack shet about it until it affects their wallet.
You should check out the lock picking lawyer. His shade makes you feel like he invited you to lunch and it took until after you left to realize he told you you're awful and stupid
*TH-cam:* takes down videos with 5 seconds of copyright music on a channel with 2 subscribers *Also TH-cam:* sends 100s of Gold buttons to Content Farm channels that break their "guidelines"
I'm wondering how no one noticed she literally clickbaited us on purpose. She used that type of title and stuff to show us what she means. So smart, keep up the great work Ann
Clever girl&go far back&see her tiny tiny breakfast bakes-warning no grandkids near or you'll go bananas explaining&buying plastic for the rip off American G doll made in=
@Enderguin58 The youtuber she honestly didnt need to do the hacks. Yes she said in the title that she would, but talking about how these channels are content farms already tell us that the hacks are fake. The whole concept of these channel arent to inform but to just release videos and make money theres no real need to test.
@Enderguin58 The youtuber It's an example of the clickbait formula described at @12:19 (irony can be missed easily, especially by people new to the channel, so that was a gamble on her part). Her other videos *do* test the hacks.
Enderguin58 The youtuber Watch 12:15, she's proving a point lmao. Also she does expose some viral video tricks, such as the title formula she's using here.
@@AmandaBoysenberry doesnt matter. I mean, their reputation is shit, but yet these content farms still get millions of views. They won't take action until youtube starts to lose money
Channels like Mr. Cakes aren’t even content creators, every single thing they post is a compilation of stolen clips from other creators cause I can easily point out who made what. A lot of clips they show is from the scran line, taste made, Matt Addlard, Joey, a lot of Brazilian/foreign creators, etc. At least 5 mins crafts film their own content (at least from what I’ve seen, maybe they steal too).
I want to say *THANK YOU* to the patrons, too. It's because of your generosity that those of us who can't afford to support Ann still get to enjoy her amazing, intelligent, informative content. She deserves it and I am grateful to everyone who did what they could to keep her on TH-cam.
This! I can't stress enough, hos much I agree! I'm still so sad that my financial situation got so bad that I could no longer support this amazing woman on patreon
Love your video title. Number (8) + adjective (viral) + keyword (video tricks) + promise (that will blow your mind) *insert clapping here* great way to actually use what you are talking about in the video. Love it.
Plus, youtube gives strikes to those creators when it's something super mild or inoffensive but then they let ACTUAL harmful videos on the platform. TH-cam setting their priorities right 👌
I think it’s because it’s kids watching this mostly. They don’t understand that they are getting clickbaited. When I was younger I definitely went down a content farm rabbit hole
Ann, the thing that concerns me most about these content farms is that TH-cam removes REAL content creators and pushes the content farm videos with their advertising algorithms. How can we put a stop to these once and for all?
1.Take a picture of the ads showing on the content farms 2. Involve the companies of those ads and inform them that it's a content farm, so their ads are meaningless since it's not real people 3. Let the big companies bitchslap youtube back into action
Click on the three dots next to the thumbnail of any videos recommended to you and select "don't show me this content." It doesn't take long for the content farm videos to disappear. DO NOT watch the videos, for any reason. And make sure you turn off autoplay, especially on facebook; the 2 seconds it takes you to decide not to watch the whole video still counts as a hit. Encourage everyone you know to do the same, including the comment sections on debunking videos. All the people who are suggesting these videos to Ann are still helping the content farms.
Add E I'd also like to add that you can share the videos without clicking on the video from the three dot button thingy so if for whatever ungodly reason you need to share it you still don't have to contribute to their view counts
I feel like the only way to stop this is for MCNs to act like unions and take strike action to demand change. TH-cam clearly only listens to the money.
As soon as I saw the “chefs” I was like oh this is FAKE FAKE. Then I saw the improper english and knew it was another content farm from a country outside the USA despite being targeted there.
@@LaurenT3G To paraphrase a famous movie quote: "For the pastry chef, the day of the photoshoot for the website would have been the most important of their lives. But for the stock photo model, it was Tuesday." Hyperbole of course but you get the point.
@@LaurenT3G They all look like average good looking bland people in unnatural poses and with cliche things. Just one of those could maybe be real but that all three of them just happen to look like this and be able to pose like this?
LOL Agree, the moment I saw them I was like these are not real. They don't have a background, the lady is doing that weird pose that no one trying to be professional would do and I could have sworn I saw the first dude before. And sure enough I was right and I had seen him before.
@@susanabasera8256 You don't say girl to an adult you mostly say woman since girls are mostly the ones who are young like kids or teenagers. All though yes, she is very savage I have mad respect for her.
My friend who makes short Lego animations, had one of his videos taken down after he used about 20 seconds of copyrighted audio from Agents of Shield. The video got taken down within a week, whilst this clickbait bs is EVERYWHERE. TH-cam needs to get its act together real fast.
I got sent a video from a youtuber named jimmy snow, who had his entire CHANNEL taken down for "Spamming"" ... the channel did call in shows like twice a week. When he asked what he had done specifically wrong they refused to tell him, and said he'd try to find a way around it. ...yeah he'd try not to break whatever rule! that's the point. The channel got reinstated but their logic when he was talking to them was just RIDICULOUS.
They do got their act together mate, just so happens their "act" is get as much money as possible. Cancerous practices like this are insanely advertiser-friendly and rake them in literal truckloads worth of money? Why would they care about your friend? Is he pulling in the ads like these industrialized content machines? TH-cam will continue to flush the community's soul and creativity down the drain and tramples individual creators as long as they continue to be rewarded for it, and the momentum of their existence is simply too great that there is no stopping them.
Some of those pictures on their thumbnails are actually products from other company’s. Like that geometric chocolate heart I saw many times, it’s really a product called ‘the heartbreaker’ from some Asian company.
Yeah I was wondering if anyone reversed searched the thumbnails. Someone could just download them with another website and then put them through a search engine.
I always feel so bad for the actual cake makers, who spend days labouring over their beautiful cakes, only to have them stolen and used by these content farms. TH-cam should do something about this, but of course they won’t, with numbers like that.
I agree. I forget how expensive it is to bake all these cakes and with Covid and everything it's hard to share your baked goods with people and some of the food goes to waste.
@@SinMore There are a lot of great "hand" channels. One of the great things about TH-cam is the possible anonymity while still being able to engage your audience. Examples are AvE and LockpickingLawyer.
@@Scarlett1243 I know, and I don’t like that. I wish the fake animal rescue videos didn’t get the views they do and TH-cam actually allowed more videos for animal awareness
I used to tell my mum not to believe everything she sees on the internet and she's like "why is it on the internet if it's fake" then that's how I know that the internet is a dangerous place for people who believe easily. Too bad, she's no longer around to see your debunking videos.
in canada we used to have these funny commercials about a house hippo and it was a way to inform people/children to not always believe everything you watch/see on TV, and the same should apply to internet now that most kids and people watch stuff online as opposed to TV
TH-cam let these giants get too big so now it's like a dangerous surgery to remove a tumor, they're obviously content farms and very blatantly break those rules. Just got done watching all the Mark and Charlie business
I hate the effect the algorithm is having on actual content creators. Other creators I watch are also mentioning how they're getting virtually no adsense money anymore. Such a shame that great creators like you and others are being buried by clickbait and spam. The only reason I'm even commenting is to boost this video in the face of the algorithm. Good luck and thanks for the awesome videos!
Yeah it's terrible. Something happened a couple of months ago too, that suddenly radically changed how many views a number of creators I follow have been getting. One of them made a graph and it shows a really clear change where suddenly they're getting a lot fewer people watching, while their content has remained of exactly the same type and quality. Another has decided recently to start using more clickbaity words in his video titles in an attempt to make the algorithm pick up his videos more so he can maybe get back to where he was before. It's sad that people are having the rules changed on them so much, and that TH-cam doesn't seem to care about anything except the almighty dollarsigns.
This has been so useful and informative, and I especially love that she makes a point to refer her viewers to useful resources such as the viral content book. This platform does not deserve Ann.
Karine V yeah, they seemed very off. At first because I want entirely focusing I just went well they seem like real people but once I actually payed attention that’s when I also figured out it was fake.
I'm a teacher in the United Kingdom (currently with a class of 8-year olds) and thanks to you, Ann, I was able to educate them on the amount of misinformation on TH-cam. One was a particular fan of BrightSide (which I now know is part of TheSoul) and because of this I reminded them about fact-checking and reliable sources. Thank you, Ann. Helping another generation too! I will take the chance to share your videos with them when I find a spare 10 minutes outside of lessons.
I just got a message today that a *private* video from *2 years ago* with *zero views* that was a 30 second clip of lightning outside my house was "flagged for review" and given an age restriction. Let me repeat: a thirty second, two year old private video of a thunderstorm that nobody but me has seen, was flagged, restricted and after "thorough review" that decision was upheld. Meanwhile these assholes get 100 play buttons and TH-cam's like "hmm, is it weird that we're shipping a literal truckload of play buttons to the same building in Vietnam? Naaah, I'm sure it's fine." Fuck this shit website and everybody running it
Like how they strike people for "violence" due to a comedy clip of mascots "beating" someone in road rage, yet are perfectly fine with animal abuse that has been repeatedly reported?
And it pisses me off to see that actual content creators that create good, educational content are constantly getting demonetized because they accidentally say a curse word or for no reason at all while content farms (especially ones dedicated for kids’ enjoyment) are putting out such harmful content.
You should make another channel called “How to Debunk That”, and then a crafting channel called “How to Do That” and then cross collab with yourself AND THEN ANN WILL RULE TH-cam
@@ithinkdoyou I am so so glad I live in an economic system that penalizes ethics. 👍 Capitalism is *definitely* a total success because infinite growth is *definitely* possible, *definitely* great job, humanity is having a fabulous time, 11/10. 🤦
OK, so I have a few rules of my own that I tend to use when I use TH-cam. 1. Make use of the three-dot icon on the side of each video title. If you have seen the video before (whether the video suggestion shows it or not), click “Not Interested” and click “Tell Us Why” and check the “I’ve already seen this video”. 2. Similarly, if the suggested video looks as if it is spam or contains content that keeps being sent to your suggestions, consider using the same menu but click “Don’t Recommend This Channel”. 3. Just because the channel asks you to “Like and Subscribe”, don’t just do it. The ultimate decision on if you like a video lies with you as does the subscription. “I didn’t forget to like and subscribe, I just didn’t do it.” 4. Remember that you have a pause button available to you and that you can always click away. If a video spends too much time advertising at the end, pause and click away. Channels that use mid-roll ads often end up on my “Don’t Recommend” list. Just because these channels need the money, it does not mean that they should compromise the content just so they can promote something. 5. If you get fooled by clickbait once, chances are that the channel in question is likely to make a habit of it. That’s another good use of the “Don’t Recommend” selection. I could go on, but that should be enough for now.
"Cleaning your extraction fan filters . . . They can go in your dishwasher." 14:15 And BOOM! I have officially learned more in one second from Anne than the millions of hours that content farms have to offer.
@@alessialucchesi2443 no she legit did it an ordinate couple of times (try to search for ten amazing cakes // ten Nutella recipes // etc) haha. But there's nothing wrong with it, is there? I mean she's a content creator, after all, and she never really capitalised on this tactic.
@@AmardeepSingh-zy5ih If you can't make money by any other means than through unscrupulous exploitation of children and inattentive parents, then you are a failure. And an objectively horrible person.
TH-cam has changed for the worst. There’s still plenty of good content on here(like you!) but I’ve stopped watching videos that look like click bait. It’s gotten a little easier to spot them.
Ya I'm pretty sure people over the age of 13 actually are able to spot clickbait just from using TH-cam after a long time. My, look at how the human race is evolving!
They really are! They’re making it so that the good channels all have to have Patreon to survive, and the garbage channels churn out mountains of the same stuff for mountains of money.
Yeah it suck's how youtube is going for the worse i hope it corrects it's guidelines so we can all watch good content or it's going to be a thing of the past i'm debating on if i want to still use it or not.
On the toothpaste fixing broken glass one, it amazes me that apparently they got away with having a photo of broken glass on their phone screen instead of actually breaking the glass.
"Playing by the rules" means following all the TH-cam guidelines, including the super secret hidden guideline that says "unless it's making us a profit."
If TH-cam wanted to listen to her they could do it now, but they don’t so they won’t. Being hired by TH-cam would just mean she can’t call them out anymore.
This is super frustrating but can we take a moment to appreciate the first content farm? I mean being able to trick millions of people into watching the same videos over and over again is pretty impressive, even if it's lazy and often legitimately dangerous. There's a lot of science that goes into this.
I feel sick about this behavior. I understand the phrase "working smarter, not harder", but stuff like this is an exception. And what pisses me off more is that there's nothing we can do about it because there's always a loophole somewhere and they keep getting away with it.
There is something we could do, not watch them, ignore them. If they got less views then they’d stop. Or TH-cam wouldn’t get enough money from them to justify ignoring all the rules they broke. But it takes everyone doing that before it has any effect.
This company isn't even exploiting a loophole. They're large enough channels that they should at least notice the fake thumbnails and repeated content, but they don't do anything about it.
@@ArtemisFowl_the_wise It'd be pretty bloody difficult to get the majority of TH-cam viewers to stop watching this predatory content, especially because a lot of content farms get their views from people of countries that aren't as easy to reach out to. It'd be one thing convincing the population of Australia to not fall for these click baits, but viewership gotten from Australia pales in comparison to, say, India. And try telling kids to ignore them. And there's probably bots involved as well...
Yeah its the same as etsy. That originally started as a site for independent creators of crafted items. There were and still are rules that say you can't outsource your work, it can't be factory made etc etc. A small independent creator got banned (and lost a lots of their income in the process) because their company consisted of 3 other people each involved in a different step of production of the garments which were made custom to people's orders. So not in bulk or anything. Etsy claimed that meant that they were factory made not hand crafted. Meanwhile, its become more common to just find cheap wholesale purchased identical items listed by lots of sellers with weird sounding names and poorly translated descriptions which try to claim that they make everything by hand. But they are not. But they end up making etsy a ton of money so etsy looks the other way. And when the small independent makers tried to bring this to etsy's attention, they got banned for "calling out" basically. It was so ridiculous! As a result, lots of the small independent makers have been forced off the platform as they can't compete with the mass produced crap in terms of price or quantity. The whole reason they started selling on etsy was to get away from that on ebay, but it just followed across. Many makers gave up trying to run a business at all, some have websites but since they have to manage them themselves now with less ease of use they tend not to use them in quite the same way they once did. They've seen a reduction in income too.
KattriellaDoesStuff the problem is they can make the platform as shitty as they want because where else are you going to go if you want to make money and have a huge audience? Twitch is the closest thing but it’s not really cutting into TH-cam’s revenue.
Alexa Faie That’s so messed up!!! But then again is anyone surprised that capitalism doesn’t care about small individual creators with minuscule portions of the market 🙄. The system that allows one person to be worth $200billion is BROKEN and doesn’t work for smaller people.
I feel the same way. I feel tricked when I´ve been waiting for the thing in the thumbnail to show up, and it´s not even mentioned! Those darn clickbaits,,,!
This is absolutely insane. TH-cam really needs to take the hint, and fix this flawed system. Awesome video Ann, thanks for the great research!! Btw your hair looks gorgeous! I always look forward to your notifications! Hope you and your family are happy and well! 💛
"Now if we reverse-image-search the chef portraits..." *Please be stock photos please be stock photos...* "They are stock photos." **INHUMAN SCREECHES OF LAUGHTER**
@@beatrizsimoes177go to Google. Click "Images". Click on the camera in the corner of the search bar. Alternately if you have Chrome, right click on image --> "search on Google"
it’s really sad that youtube not only doesn’t punish this type of behaviour, but rewards it. there is a youtube account i used to watch to read and reacted to memes and had his whole channel demonetized for “repeating content” but these companies can keep posting the exact same videos and get millions upon millions of views.
@@kamilajurczynska3185 untrue, TH-cam has bots and the reason why they have them is because they can't just do it themself because there is way too many channels so youtubers have to call them out themself and post it on twitter. They are owned by Google they don't really need the money too much. All I can say is that they need better bots
1) far too neat 2) notice how there is not on metal table or shelfs as many kitchens 3) I've myself been reporting these videos for the actual reasons in this video all the fans of rising and upcoming TH-camrs should just keep doing it then they will go
TH-cam was a beautiful place for talented individuals like u Ann that share their beautiful stuff with the world before those hungry-money ppl showed up they ruin everything
They ruined housing, they ruined recreation vehicles, they ruined gardening/home farming, they ruined news, and they ruined youtube. These people ruining this stuff are not actually people.
I love how you not only test the hack but also explain why it didn’t work and that you actually really care and put a lot of research these videos are so entertaining and amazing to watch !!
Yeah, I tried cleaning the bottoms of mine once. Ruined 3 of my favorite pans. 😂 That was one of my first lessons in NOT trusting the interwebs for advice.
The only reason to clean the bottom of the pan is if you’re really anal or are finding it a new home, in which case you use Bar Keepers Friend and elbow grease, a lot of it.
emccoy, Revereware! My parents still have some of that. I was trying all kinds of chemicals to eat off that burned on “patina” without eating off the copper. I think I settled on Easy Off oven cleaner for a short period of time plus Bar Keepers Friend and elbow grease, but we were preparing them to go to Goodwill, and few people will buy old, greasy pans.
Your videos are always recommended to me and I always watch them. It was today I realised I hadn’t subscribed yet. You’re the kind of content creator that deserves the recognition. Thank you for your service! Subscribed :)
The second I feel like I’ve clicked on a “farm” I get off. I’ve watched you Ann enough to kinda figure out the pattern. I stick to the creators I like and are really helpful. Thanks for all your help
My question is how is this not fraud? They, with TH-cam as accessories under the law, are generating a cash flow via ads etc through a wrongful and obvious deception. Is that not the definition of fraud and hence illegal. People like this is the reason REAL content creators have to beg for donations on patreon. LOLs she did the clickbate title thing.
This reminds me of all those strange ads I use to see through yahoo. The ones about losing belly fat, or those weird pictures of some gross looking seed or fruit that burns fat. Not sure if any one ever clicked on those images, but they're always there. TH-cam cheaters just use images of cake instead of an often poor drawing of some woman squishing her belly fat.
Maybe these content farms are giving youtube extra money as a kickback or something. There's got to be a reason they are allowing it for them and nobody else. Kick back sounds about right to me.
Hmm... this make me wondering is this another way of how youtube generating an "income" to their company? By having "a bunch or group" of people to be allowed to do this "content farming", using clickbait and break most of youtube rules and regulations but yet all of this channel are still works! Something "fishy" in a muds. Thanks to Ann to bravely reveal this. But Ann, please do watch your back out. If this really was done by "internal youtube team" which is part of another way for them to generate an income, you might be in a big trouble sooner or later. 😔
I would like to know does TH-cam forgive channels where their viewers click on ads or purchase through youtube ads? Assuming youtube makes more money when people engage with the ads.
I know one thing for sure: If there *is* a video showing the knife cutting into that heart cake, it's gonna have two entirely different cakes on the thumbnail.
Kids. Most of their viewers are kids. It's kid friendly (well, most of it ANYWAY *cough* bleached strawberries *cough* skittles vodka *cough* ) and colorful.
Karen Ramnath TH-cam isn’t going to give it up, is because they make money from them too. Content farms are the reason that TH-cam has the amount of money that it does. Soo, they let it slide.
@@CriAleMar The Shutterstock one seems to be one they paid for. Or they photoshopped it...which is possible, since they added the EU flag to his collar.
Just in case no one mentioned this, do NOT wear wet socks to bed. Not unless you like athlete's foot. You can (and likely will) get some kind of infection on your foot if you do that. So... not only is the thumbnail fake, it's actually dangerous.
We had a guy in Basic Training that would spray his feet with bug spray and then wear socks to bed, giving himself trench foot. His feet would dry out, crack and bleed.
youtube apply their rules whenever they want. For this kind of creators that create clickbait, repetitive and some times dangerous content, they close their eyes because their is a lot of money but for real creators that spends hours creating one video, nooooo these are youtube rules!! and there is no way to stop this since youtube itself allows it!
If they changed the rule for repetitious content, I’d hope they’d make some kind of exception for individual content creators uploading full vods on vod channels and edits on their other channel because that’s very common in the gaming community
The chocalate with a knife is a viral video that is commonly used in satisfying videos complation since 2016/2017 so if they started 11 months ago it can't be theirs
“But remember they also do have a policy against dangerous content but they don’t think that people putting strawberries in bleach to make them white or pouring hot caramel onto beaters to flick them around is dangerous, so there may be a reason why this isn’t because money is involved. I don’t know.” 😳
Sneaky stuff fools so many people!! If you're over content farms, check out my new 'DEBUNKING' mugs & H2CT 'science lab' t-shirts: th-cam.com/users/howtocookthatstore 💕
Shouldn't you Pin this🤔🤔🤔
i'm too broke for your stuff 😂😔
Love watching your videos
@@worrydodo 💕
So yummy season 3 episode 3 on Snapchat looks like there are fakes in there. Could you please look into that?
Holy crap Ann has become a triple threat:
-Baker Extraordinaire
-Food Scientist
-Detective
Private investigator too 🤣
(She also films and produces her own videos and the quality is professional)
And the more important one. She's a good person with good values.
Now she needs a channel for each topic, cross promoting herself
She's fantastic all around. I think I'm a little too old to use this term, but I'm a bit of a stan. (I hope I used that correctly)
This seriously needs to be addressed. Actual content creators are struggling with producing quality continent and getting views, when huge companies are abusing the system and making thousands of dollars on the way, not to mention endangering life's of others!
You can report the video for misleading thumbnail.
It sucks man. And happens everywhere with everything. Small businesses struggle while big corporations and companies thrive on subpar products and services
Don't click, it's the only way to starve the machine, scroll for something better, you can also block content farms from your feed one channel @ a time, if you have the patience.
I don't want to burst anyone's bubbles or upset anyone but here's the harsh reality, they get millions of views aka LOTS OF MONEY so youtube get a lot of money as well so they do jack shet about it until it affects their wallet.
*millions 😂😂
Please don’t stop this series. You’re my favorite classy shade thrower.
Her shade cools me down in this heat wave.
You should check out the lock picking lawyer. His shade makes you feel like he invited you to lunch and it took until after you left to realize he told you you're awful and stupid
I don't think the phrase "throwing shade" applies to what she does in these videos. She's exposing fakery and fraud in an objective manner.
YESSSS
That’s the best wording for why this content is great. Classy yet scathing
''But they didn't reply. So I just hunted for them instead.'' Lol, oh Ann. Your positive attitude even while in hunt mode is so endearing.
when is Queen Ann getting her Pulitzer for this incredible investigative reporting ?!??
She would sooner get accidented by the owners of the content farms she's calling out
My newsies brain just got activated
She is so brave calling out TH-cam about cheating at their own rules on TH-cam itself!!!!
If TH-cam was a country, I'd rather live in Cuba.
@@adolphin9348 wdym
Many people call out other people just much more rudely
@@gav1233 I think Id rather live in cuba now anyway
@@WalkingRat50556 he/she wasn't talking about ann
*TH-cam:* takes down videos with 5 seconds of copyright music on a channel with 2 subscribers
*Also TH-cam:* sends 100s of Gold buttons to Content Farm channels that break their "guidelines"
I'm wondering how no one noticed she literally clickbaited us on purpose. She used that type of title and stuff to show us what she means. So smart, keep up the great work Ann
At least she actually delivered on her title and thumbnail.
@@CopShowGuy Therefore not clickbait. Finally a win for the algorithm.
I was wondering if anyone was going to notice that she used the clickbait formula for the title of her video
I noticed that too. I love that kind of irony
Clever girl&go far back&see her tiny tiny breakfast bakes-warning no grandkids near or you'll go bananas explaining&buying plastic for the rip off American G doll made in=
I hope one day these content farms are taken down, and Ann is one of the creators credited with helping. Great video as always!
@Enderguin58 The youtuber it's obviously intentional irony...
@Enderguin58 The youtuber she honestly didnt need to do the hacks. Yes she said in the title that she would, but talking about how these channels are content farms already tell us that the hacks are fake. The whole concept of these channel arent to inform but to just release videos and make money theres no real need to test.
@Enderguin58 The youtuber It's an example of the clickbait formula described at @12:19 (irony can be missed easily, especially by people new to the channel, so that was a gamble on her part). Her other videos *do* test the hacks.
They make too much money, that's why TH-cam doesn't care.
Enderguin58 The youtuber Watch 12:15, she's proving a point lmao. Also she does expose some viral video tricks, such as the title formula she's using here.
Me: “Why is TH-cam allowing all this click bait/content farming/self commenting crap to continue?”
Ann: “Because money’s involved.”
Sounds legit.
The question is why do they care so little about their brand and platform respectability
@@AmandaBoysenberry That doesn't get them money
@@AmandaBoysenberry doesnt matter. I mean, their reputation is shit, but yet these content farms still get millions of views. They won't take action until youtube starts to lose money
Laundering money.
There doing it for money
Channels like Mr. Cakes aren’t even content creators, every single thing they post is a compilation of stolen clips from other creators cause I can easily point out who made what. A lot of clips they show is from the scran line, taste made, Matt Addlard, Joey, a lot of Brazilian/foreign creators, etc. At least 5 mins crafts film their own content (at least from what I’ve seen, maybe they steal too).
Five minute crafts dont steal but they do something worse than stealing
ilike racecars what do they do?
@@sady1139 they repeatedly reuse the same clips and crafts in multiple videos, thus wasting our time.
5 min craft doesn't steal footage from other people, however they do steal the ideas for several hacks and film themselves doing them.
@@sheevpalpatine6139 yep
14:58 they have to past the 10 minute mark to be allowed to put more ads
that's why they did more than 11 hacks
Sad
Gotta get that ad rvenue
I tapped and got an ad.
Hey look its the Scene Comparisons guy!
I want to say *THANK YOU* to the patrons, too. It's because of your generosity that those of us who can't afford to support Ann still get to enjoy her amazing, intelligent, informative content. She deserves it and I am grateful to everyone who did what they could to keep her on TH-cam.
What she⬆️⬆️ said!!
This! I can't stress enough, hos much I agree!
I'm still so sad that my financial situation got so bad that I could no longer support this amazing woman on patreon
@@shadowheartart3898 aw, it’s fine, I hope you get better soon 💕
Fr the patrons are amazing 💜 I have been in the ruts (financially and emotionally) since covid and anns content has been a stress relief for me.
@@Mink_Tracks I hope it’s gotten better for you now
Ann is basically harnessing the TH-cam algorithm whilst implementing originality, and I'm all for it.
I love this woman.
X2
She's a legend. So badass
Hello, chef!!!
No homo?
I want her to adopt me and feed me cake
Love your video title. Number (8) + adjective (viral) + keyword (video tricks) + promise (that will blow your mind) *insert clapping here* great way to actually use what you are talking about in the video. Love it.
😉
ha yea i saw that too
@@HowToCookThatclever
Ugh, this is so frustrating to see. There are so many genuine content creators... and THIS! THIS?! Is what's getting billions of views....
It upsets me soooo much. And YT will allow this because they make money off it
Plus, youtube gives strikes to those creators when it's something super mild or inoffensive but then they let ACTUAL harmful videos on the platform. TH-cam setting their priorities right 👌
I think it’s because it’s kids watching this mostly. They don’t understand that they are getting clickbaited. When I was younger I definitely went down a content farm rabbit hole
I wish we could get this on trending somehow and get some change on this.
:((( I hope Ann can get more views
@@shr9662 yes you are right about 90% of them are little kids that's why
Ann, the thing that concerns me most about these content farms is that TH-cam removes REAL content creators and pushes the content farm videos with their advertising algorithms. How can we put a stop to these once and for all?
1.Take a picture of the ads showing on the content farms
2. Involve the companies of those ads and inform them that it's a content farm, so their ads are meaningless since it's not real people
3. Let the big companies bitchslap youtube back into action
Find a tactical nuke
@@MegaBlair007 oh my god that's smart
Click on the three dots next to the thumbnail of any videos recommended to you and select "don't show me this content." It doesn't take long for the content farm videos to disappear. DO NOT watch the videos, for any reason. And make sure you turn off autoplay, especially on facebook; the 2 seconds it takes you to decide not to watch the whole video still counts as a hit. Encourage everyone you know to do the same, including the comment sections on debunking videos. All the people who are suggesting these videos to Ann are still helping the content farms.
Add E I'd also like to add that you can share the videos without clicking on the video from the three dot button thingy so if for whatever ungodly reason you need to share it you still don't have to contribute to their view counts
TH-cam: We only recognize creators that have played by the rules.
Also TH-cam: You get a Play Button! 🥳 and you get a Play Button!! 🎉
Lol
Genuine youtubers who work hard for their subs: *exist*
TH-cam: and you, you can starve
AND EVERY ONE GETS A PLAY BUTTON!!!!!!!
I feel like the only way to stop this is for MCNs to act like unions and take strike action to demand change. TH-cam clearly only listens to the money.
Mrs. Queen Ann Reardon needs to pin this.
Calling Mr.Beast a genuine creator did not age well...
I can’t hold it against Ann; none of us knew the depth of the problems at the time.
Hindsight is a bitch.
As soon as I saw the “chefs” I was like oh this is FAKE FAKE. Then I saw the improper english and knew it was another content farm from a country outside the USA despite being targeted there.
Right? I saw the chefs and just thought "I think I've used them in powerpoints"
@Ash Ketchup L M F A O HE DOES LOOK LIKE HIM USYSSUAAHAHHSA
GUESS I'M GONNA GO BINGE WATCH H3H3 CLASSICS AGAIN NOW 😂
They also only like Facebook posts in different languages.
The second I saw their "team" photos, I was like, please reverse-search those, Ann, they're definitely stock photos.
As usual, she did not disappoint.
I knew they were stock photos cause I've seen the Spiffing Brit use the woman a few times.
I don't know what it is about them that just looks so... off.
@@LaurenT3G To paraphrase a famous movie quote: "For the pastry chef, the day of the photoshoot for the website would have been the most important of their lives. But for the stock photo model, it was Tuesday." Hyperbole of course but you get the point.
@@LaurenT3G They all look like average good looking bland people in unnatural poses and with cliche things. Just one of those could maybe be real but that all three of them just happen to look like this and be able to pose like this?
LOL Agree, the moment I saw them I was like these are not real. They don't have a background, the lady is doing that weird pose that no one trying to be professional would do and I could have sworn I saw the first dude before. And sure enough I was right and I had seen him before.
“They didn’t answer me, so I just hunted for them instead...” SAVAGE
Best part of the vid
@@Chely0321 yeah 😂😂
WHEEEEEEZE THIS GURL IS SAVAGE
I literally had that part comming up right as I found your comment- *L o l*
@@susanabasera8256 You don't say girl to an adult you mostly say woman since girls are mostly the ones who are young like kids or teenagers. All though yes, she is very savage I have mad respect for her.
I hate the fact that I clicked because I saw the chocolate heart once again and I thought I was going to be able to finally see what is in it.
But now you’ve found Ann! That was very lucky, watch all her videos to see why she is the best and we love her.
She bake,
She make cake,
But most importantly,
She expose the fake.
AKE AKE AKE!!!
Yes
@@fruitykiwi978 lol
Yes yes yes
Yaaaas
My friend who makes short Lego animations, had one of his videos taken down after he used about 20 seconds of copyrighted audio from Agents of Shield. The video got taken down within a week, whilst this clickbait bs is EVERYWHERE. TH-cam needs to get its act together real fast.
What makes you think that youtube is not behind those farms? 😂
@@celestus87 i NeVeR tHoUgHt AbOuT iT tHaT wAy
I got sent a video from a youtuber named jimmy snow, who had his entire CHANNEL taken down for "Spamming"" ... the channel did call in shows like twice a week.
When he asked what he had done specifically wrong they refused to tell him, and said he'd try to find a way around it. ...yeah he'd try not to break whatever rule! that's the point.
The channel got reinstated but their logic when he was talking to them was just RIDICULOUS.
They do got their act together mate, just so happens their "act" is get as much money as possible. Cancerous practices like this are insanely advertiser-friendly and rake them in literal truckloads worth of money? Why would they care about your friend? Is he pulling in the ads like these industrialized content machines?
TH-cam will continue to flush the community's soul and creativity down the drain and tramples individual creators as long as they continue to be rewarded for it, and the momentum of their existence is simply too great that there is no stopping them.
@@munchkin7151 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Some of those pictures on their thumbnails are actually products from other company’s. Like that geometric chocolate heart I saw many times, it’s really a product called ‘the heartbreaker’ from some Asian company.
So, the content farms are stealing content.
@@miaschu8175 pretty sure thats illegal
Yeah I was wondering if anyone reversed searched the thumbnails. Someone could just download them with another website and then put them through a search engine.
@@youtubestuff683 it IS technically illegal
@@SF3L thought so.
"Allow me to introduce you to Susan from stock photo sight and Richard from shutterstock"
😂😂
This woman did a better job on her free time over a week than the people paid tens of thousands of dollars running youtube. Amazing.
yes, well, that's because youtube knows and doesn't care. they're making money. why would they destroy their golden egg-laying goose?
@@LBrobie bingo!
We should find another platform :(
LBrobie golden egg laying goose 😂
@@LBrobie fax
I’m going to start a content farm named “Cake... no, Steak”, where I put a cake in the thumbnail, but the video is about cooking steaks.
🤣🤣🤣
I would follow that!
Do iiiit
And then instead of having normal employees, you’d have butchers
Role reversal of that trend where everything is cake. Cake is now steak.
I always feel so bad for the actual cake makers, who spend days labouring over their beautiful cakes, only to have them stolen and used by these content farms. TH-cam should do something about this, but of course they won’t, with numbers like that.
yeah, I like to see people's faces. These fast faceless videos are not for me.
I agree. I forget how expensive it is to bake all these cakes and with Covid and everything it's hard to share your baked goods with people and some of the food goes to waste.
@@SinMore There are a lot of great "hand" channels. One of the great things about TH-cam is the possible anonymity while still being able to engage your audience. Examples are AvE and LockpickingLawyer.
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@always working as the Child of God because the content farms are taking over and the real channels are loosing money.
News TH-camr: *talks about political news*
TH-cam: oh no you can't do that
Content farm: *tells children that eating bleach is ok*
TH-cam: yeah more!
I know this is a joke but
TH-cam moderation is garbage
Let's not forget that they don't remove fake animal rescue videos for animal abuse but punished the one reporting about it for raising awareness
@@Scarlett1243 I know, and I don’t like that. I wish the fake animal rescue videos didn’t get the views they do and TH-cam actually allowed more videos for animal awareness
I used to tell my mum not to believe everything she sees on the internet and she's like "why is it on the internet if it's fake" then that's how I know that the internet is a dangerous place for people who believe easily. Too bad, she's no longer around to see your debunking videos.
so sorry about your mum - I know the feeling.
Years ago as a kid, my parents used to tell me not to believe everything I see on the internet. Now, I’m the one saying that to them.
in canada we used to have these funny commercials about a house hippo and it was a way to inform people/children to not always believe everything you watch/see on TV, and the same should apply to internet now that most kids and people watch stuff online as opposed to TV
awh im so sorry about your mum
@@JingoCrochet I remember that commercial, of all the commercials when I was younger that was like the only one that I ever remember lol
This just in! TH-cam doesn’t care about their own rules over money.
If that's the case the FTC might have to sue TH-cam again (they already sued them once for violating COPPA rules).
What else is new...
TH-cam? No way, they wouldn’t do that...
TH-cam let these giants get too big so now it's like a dangerous surgery to remove a tumor, they're obviously content farms and very blatantly break those rules. Just got done watching all the Mark and Charlie business
Exactly. There are Videos on TH-cam where Cats and other animals are being KILLED and that is just fine.
I hate the effect the algorithm is having on actual content creators. Other creators I watch are also mentioning how they're getting virtually no adsense money anymore. Such a shame that great creators like you and others are being buried by clickbait and spam. The only reason I'm even commenting is to boost this video in the face of the algorithm. Good luck and thanks for the awesome videos!
Yeah it's terrible. Something happened a couple of months ago too, that suddenly radically changed how many views a number of creators I follow have been getting. One of them made a graph and it shows a really clear change where suddenly they're getting a lot fewer people watching, while their content has remained of exactly the same type and quality. Another has decided recently to start using more clickbaity words in his video titles in an attempt to make the algorithm pick up his videos more so he can maybe get back to where he was before. It's sad that people are having the rules changed on them so much, and that TH-cam doesn't seem to care about anything except the almighty dollarsigns.
This has been so useful and informative, and I especially love that she makes a point to refer her viewers to useful resources such as the viral content book. This platform does not deserve Ann.
When she revealed the stock photos:
Top 10 most shocking plot twists in history
As soon as I saw the pictures I knew it was stock photos.
It's Like they weren't even trying to hide it
Tom I love your mashups! Especially the 2014-1
2015 mega mashup!!
Karine V yeah, they seemed very off. At first because I want entirely focusing I just went well they seem like real people but once I actually payed attention that’s when I also figured out it was fake.
17 SHOCKING PLOT TWISTS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
I'm a teacher in the United Kingdom (currently with a class of 8-year olds) and thanks to you, Ann, I was able to educate them on the amount of misinformation on TH-cam. One was a particular fan of BrightSide (which I now know is part of TheSoul) and because of this I reminded them about fact-checking and reliable sources. Thank you, Ann. Helping another generation too! I will take the chance to share your videos with them when I find a spare 10 minutes outside of lessons.
I did not know about BrightSide!!! I feel so cheated. Thank you. Lesson learnt! I will fact check all information I learn from TH-cam channels!!
You're an awesome teacher!
Is anyone else getting tired of TH-cam blatantly lying about enforcing their own policies? 🙃
what policy do they have? 🙄
they even have NSFW ads all over TH-cam but won't let real content creators do their stuff?
@@GABE_is_here trueeeee
I just got a message today that a *private* video from *2 years ago* with *zero views* that was a 30 second clip of lightning outside my house was "flagged for review" and given an age restriction. Let me repeat: a thirty second, two year old private video of a thunderstorm that nobody but me has seen, was flagged, restricted and after "thorough review" that decision was upheld. Meanwhile these assholes get 100 play buttons and TH-cam's like "hmm, is it weird that we're shipping a literal truckload of play buttons to the same building in Vietnam? Naaah, I'm sure it's fine." Fuck this shit website and everybody running it
Like how they strike people for "violence" due to a comedy clip of mascots "beating" someone in road rage, yet are perfectly fine with animal abuse that has been repeatedly reported?
@@DraconicDuelist yeah I remember that. Markiplier got demonetized because of that one short clip... and it's in an old video.
“What We Offers” made me absolutely lose it. Gollum has branched out to content farming.
Ann Reardon, Cake Queen and Private Investigator!
How..How did u .. "19 hours ago"
@@cucnguyen22243 patreon users get early access to videos
@@gooseymoosey1630 oh ok
GooseyMoosey oh that’s pretty cool
@@gooseymoosey1630 thanks
The fake website was a plot twist I was not expecting!
And it pisses me off to see that actual content creators that create good, educational content are constantly getting demonetized because they accidentally say a curse word or for no reason at all while content farms (especially ones dedicated for kids’ enjoyment) are putting out such harmful content.
ikr
Or because they used 3 seconds of a copyrighted property
I agree with that
well this didn’t age well
@@themarshmellowchemist299 yea
I wonder if her dream job in childhood was detective. Her attention to details is incredible.
Content farms: Pushes TH-camrs out of the algorithm.
TH-camrs: Makes content out of Content Farms.
This comment gives me hope
Stonks
Now the content farms have started debunking themselves as well
*I use the content farms to destroy the content farms*
@@irisbutterfield5340 THEN WE SHALL EXPOSE THEM
You should make another channel called “How to Debunk That”, and then a crafting channel called “How to Do That” and then cross collab with yourself
AND THEN ANN WILL RULE TH-cam
Except that she has pesky "ethics" that means no click baity titles or pic, and probably no reusing content ad nauseam...
ALL HAIL ANN X)
Also maybe a "How to Bake That" and a "How to Make That" and a "How to Decorate that"
@@ithinkdoyou I am so so glad I live in an economic system that penalizes ethics. 👍
Capitalism is *definitely* a total success because infinite growth is *definitely* possible, *definitely* great job, humanity is having a fabulous time, 11/10. 🤦
I'm on your side! maybe we need fascism 🤷♂️
Notice how she used the clickbate title format and now she’s trending... she’s a smart woman I’ll tell ya that
Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.
I came to the comment section just to see if anyone else noticed that... LOL
I think she meant that as a mock, but it worked out for her lol
@@Jewish4Ever95 A mock, but it is also accurate and she's making people aware of content farms so she can clickbait away as far as I'm concerned lol.
Did she have 8 things in here? 🤔
OK, so I have a few rules of my own that I tend to use when I use TH-cam.
1. Make use of the three-dot icon on the side of each video title. If you have seen the video before (whether the video suggestion shows it or not), click “Not Interested” and click “Tell Us Why” and check the “I’ve already seen this video”.
2. Similarly, if the suggested video looks as if it is spam or contains content that keeps being sent to your suggestions, consider using the same menu but click “Don’t Recommend This Channel”.
3. Just because the channel asks you to “Like and Subscribe”, don’t just do it. The ultimate decision on if you like a video lies with you as does the subscription. “I didn’t forget to like and subscribe, I just didn’t do it.”
4. Remember that you have a pause button available to you and that you can always click away. If a video spends too much time advertising at the end, pause and click away. Channels that use mid-roll ads often end up on my “Don’t Recommend” list. Just because these channels need the money, it does not mean that they should compromise the content just so they can promote something.
5. If you get fooled by clickbait once, chances are that the channel in question is likely to make a habit of it. That’s another good use of the “Don’t Recommend” selection.
I could go on, but that should be enough for now.
"Cleaning your extraction fan filters . . . They can go in your dishwasher." 14:15
And BOOM! I have officially learned more in one second from Anne than the millions of hours that content farms have to offer.
She said it so quick I almost missed it!!! Wow!
Ironically I don't have a dish washer so I might even try that one hack 😅
But I don't have a dishwasher. What do I do... 😂😂
I wash mine in the dishwasher as well as my spider burners for my gas stove top.
Right
Resume:
Ann Reardon
-Baker
-Food Specialist
-Private TH-cam Investigator
A good woman
Lollll
The way she got every important keyphrase in her title without technically lying *Chef's kiss*
AND the click bait thumbnails - but without them being click bait! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Kris Cannon but then it’s not click bait
If you look at the toothpaste phone hack, half the "broken" screens are broken screen protectors, and half of them are screenshots of broken glass.
When you realize that even her title is framed this way (number+adjective+key word+promise) I love her content.
So interesting. If everyone does it though, she (a legit creator) might as well do it and benefit from it.
I genuinely think it was like a "social experiment" to demonstrate that everyone culd fall in the trap.
@@alessialucchesi2443 no she legit did it an ordinate couple of times (try to search for ten amazing cakes // ten Nutella recipes // etc) haha.
But there's nothing wrong with it, is there? I mean she's a content creator, after all, and she never really capitalised on this tactic.
I hate that these awful click farms are allowed to do whatever they want.
great way to make money man
@@AmardeepSingh-zy5ih If you can't make money by any other means than through unscrupulous exploitation of children and inattentive parents, then you are a failure. And an objectively horrible person.
TH-cam has changed for the worst. There’s still plenty of good content on here(like you!) but I’ve stopped watching videos that look like click bait. It’s gotten a little easier to spot them.
Ya I'm pretty sure people over the age of 13 actually are able to spot clickbait just from using TH-cam after a long time.
My, look at how the human race is evolving!
They really are! They’re making it so that the good channels all have to have Patreon to survive, and the garbage channels churn out mountains of the same stuff for mountains of money.
It really has become mostly a sh!tshow
Best to educate ourselves and our kids to know the difference.
Yeah it suck's how youtube is going for the worse i hope it corrects it's guidelines so we can all watch good content or it's going to be a thing of the past i'm debating on if i want to still use it or not.
On the toothpaste fixing broken glass one, it amazes me that apparently they got away with having a photo of broken glass on their phone screen instead of actually breaking the glass.
"Playing by the rules" means following all the TH-cam guidelines, including the super secret hidden guideline that says "unless it's making us a profit."
Well said!
This ×1000000000
Omg xD
👁👄👁 💔 🤣😂🤣😂
Well done... I just don't know what to say.... just 👌
Channel banner: “Mr. Cake”
Channel name: “Mr. Cakes”
It’s already fake smh 😒
And the image on the channel banner is... a donut.
Is there no end to this deceit?
I found many comments copied and pasted on every channel, so fske.
Miles not everyone is Christian, Dont force your religion on others
Just report as spam. I did.
And then Mrs. Cake
Mrs. Cakes
Uncle Cake
Uncle Cakes
Aunty Cake
Aunty Cakes
Nephew Cake
Nephew Cakes
Nephew's Cake
Nephew's Cakes
Mother's Cake
Father's Cake
Grandma's Cake
Grandpa's Cake
Cousin's Cake
Chef's Cake
Cake's Cake
Cake's yummy cake
Top Cake
Dr Cake
What's next?
How To Cake?
How To Bake That?
Mr. Cake's Cake?
This is why she should work for TH-cam and stop things that TH-cam doesn’t care about
TH-cam makes money on each view too soon they’re really not motivated to change things.
If TH-cam wanted to listen to her they could do it now, but they don’t so they won’t. Being hired by TH-cam would just mean she can’t call them out anymore.
They care a lot. They give them a lot of money. So, because they care, they won’t do anything to limit them.
This is super frustrating but can we take a moment to appreciate the first content farm? I mean being able to trick millions of people into watching the same videos over and over again is pretty impressive, even if it's lazy and often legitimately dangerous. There's a lot of science that goes into this.
I feel sick about this behavior. I understand the phrase "working smarter, not harder", but stuff like this is an exception. And what pisses me off more is that there's nothing we can do about it because there's always a loophole somewhere and they keep getting away with it.
And that loophole is that TH-cam loves money and content farms make money.
There is something we could do, not watch them, ignore them. If they got less views then they’d stop. Or TH-cam wouldn’t get enough money from them to justify ignoring all the rules they broke. But it takes everyone doing that before it has any effect.
This company isn't even exploiting a loophole. They're large enough channels that they should at least notice the fake thumbnails and repeated content, but they don't do anything about it.
Even though I am a Vietnamese person but I have the same idea like you
@@ArtemisFowl_the_wise It'd be pretty bloody difficult to get the majority of TH-cam viewers to stop watching this predatory content, especially because a lot of content farms get their views from people of countries that aren't as easy to reach out to. It'd be one thing convincing the population of Australia to not fall for these click baits, but viewership gotten from Australia pales in comparison to, say, India.
And try telling kids to ignore them.
And there's probably bots involved as well...
It’s allowed to work because TH-cam will look the other way as long as they’re making money 🙃🙃🙃 even if they’re ruining this platform
You'd think SOMEBODY at TH-cam would eventually realize that if they run the platform into the ground, they're eventually going to lose money.
Illegal digital money.
With glitches!
Yeah its the same as etsy. That originally started as a site for independent creators of crafted items. There were and still are rules that say you can't outsource your work, it can't be factory made etc etc. A small independent creator got banned (and lost a lots of their income in the process) because their company consisted of 3 other people each involved in a different step of production of the garments which were made custom to people's orders. So not in bulk or anything. Etsy claimed that meant that they were factory made not hand crafted. Meanwhile, its become more common to just find cheap wholesale purchased identical items listed by lots of sellers with weird sounding names and poorly translated descriptions which try to claim that they make everything by hand. But they are not. But they end up making etsy a ton of money so etsy looks the other way. And when the small independent makers tried to bring this to etsy's attention, they got banned for "calling out" basically. It was so ridiculous!
As a result, lots of the small independent makers have been forced off the platform as they can't compete with the mass produced crap in terms of price or quantity. The whole reason they started selling on etsy was to get away from that on ebay, but it just followed across. Many makers gave up trying to run a business at all, some have websites but since they have to manage them themselves now with less ease of use they tend not to use them in quite the same way they once did. They've seen a reduction in income too.
KattriellaDoesStuff the problem is they can make the platform as shitty as they want because where else are you going to go if you want to make money and have a huge audience? Twitch is the closest thing but it’s not really cutting into TH-cam’s revenue.
Alexa Faie That’s so messed up!!! But then again is anyone surprised that capitalism doesn’t care about small individual creators with minuscule portions of the market 🙄. The system that allows one person to be worth $200billion is BROKEN and doesn’t work for smaller people.
She used to formula in her title-
Well played, Ann. Well played.
just noticed xD
LOL. I guess play by the rules, right?
also in the first 20 seconds, she never goes back to it
Wait a secOND-
Galaxy brain
As a lover of cake, I admit to being very angry when the cake that's in the thumbnail is not in the video. It truly upsets me.
I feel the same way. I feel tricked when I´ve been waiting for the thing in the thumbnail to show up, and it´s not even mentioned! Those darn clickbaits,,,!
This is absolutely insane. TH-cam really needs to take the hint, and fix this flawed system. Awesome video Ann, thanks for the great research!! Btw your hair looks gorgeous! I always look forward to your notifications! Hope you and your family are happy and well! 💛
I'm quite sure TH-cam already knows all about content farms. They just don't take action because m o n e y
Jenny Despot I know, that’s what I’m saying. That needs to change 😖 but sadly, it probably won’t.
indeed it wont change. not unless something happens that makes it so YT has to take action.
yea :(
I mean TH-cam won't even take down animal abuse videos on here, they don't exactly have any morals
"Now if we reverse-image-search the chef portraits..."
*Please be stock photos please be stock photos...*
"They are stock photos."
**INHUMAN SCREECHES OF LAUGHTER**
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Same pinch😂😂😂😂
Sorry for the question but how do you reverse image search???
@@beatrizsimoes177 on laptop i think you can drag images into the google tab
@@beatrizsimoes177go to Google. Click "Images". Click on the camera in the corner of the search bar.
Alternately if you have Chrome, right click on image --> "search on Google"
Welcome to how to cook that I'm Sherlock Holmes and in this episode....
😆
I’ll be reviewing sketchy recipes with my friend, Watson.
For some reason I read that in the LockPickingLawyer voice. Weird.
HAHAHA 😂😂
I have never heard the term "content farm " . It was very interesting. I learn so much watching your videos . Please keep them coming.
it’s really sad that youtube not only doesn’t punish this type of behaviour, but rewards it. there is a youtube account i used to watch to read and reacted to memes and had his whole channel demonetized for “repeating content” but these companies can keep posting the exact same videos and get millions upon millions of views.
TH-cam makes money off this :D They will never punish those creators
@@snakeharmer6909 TH-cam have the same amount of morals as Facebook Google and the like. They're ALL THE SAME now.
@@kamilajurczynska3185 untrue, TH-cam has bots and the reason why they have them is because they can't just do it themself because there is way too many channels so youtubers have to call them out themself and post it on twitter.
They are owned by Google they don't really need the money too much.
All I can say is that they need better bots
As soon as the "chefs" came up. I instantly thought "are they stock photos?"
Those images are too neat to be real for sure x)
Same
Me too
1) far too neat
2) notice how there is not on metal table or shelfs as many kitchens
3) I've myself been reporting these videos for the actual reasons in this video all the fans of rising and upcoming TH-camrs should just keep doing it then they will go
Same! they looked too posed and 'perfect' to be candid/genuine shots of the people.
TH-cam was a beautiful place for talented individuals like u Ann that share their beautiful stuff with the world before those hungry-money ppl showed up they ruin everything
They ruined housing, they ruined recreation vehicles, they ruined gardening/home farming, they ruined news, and they ruined youtube. These people ruining this stuff are not actually people.
It's horrible but can't be helped but look at it this way scammers run into scammers video's to and they get to pay as well 😁😈😂🥳
And youtube supports them. Which is very anti-creative.
A app can't be beautiful, they don't even have a gender.
Yup...even 5 years ago TH-cam was awesome. Now everything is commercialized and fake ads
I love how you not only test the hack but also explain why it didn’t work and that you actually really care and put a lot of research these videos are so entertaining and amazing to watch !!
“Have you ever cleaned the bottom of your sauce pan?” There was SOO much sass and disappointment in that. That is the exact reason I love Ann.
Yeah, I tried cleaning the bottoms of mine once. Ruined 3 of my favorite pans. 😂 That was one of my first lessons in NOT trusting the interwebs for advice.
The only reason to clean the bottom of the pan is if you’re really anal or are finding it a new home, in which case you use Bar Keepers Friend and elbow grease, a lot of it.
My parents had really nice copper bottom pans when I was a kid so yes I did.... >.>
emccoy, Revereware! My parents still have some of that. I was trying all kinds of chemicals to eat off that burned on “patina” without eating off the copper. I think I settled on Easy Off oven cleaner for a short period of time plus Bar Keepers Friend and elbow grease, but we were preparing them to go to Goodwill, and few people will buy old, greasy pans.
@Miles nah
"Food scientist turned investigative journalist" is yet another sign of the onsrtting cyberpunk future.
And I love it
"He has been our founder from day one." - definitely a very normal way to describe your CEO.
🤣
Your videos are always recommended to me and I always watch them. It was today I realised I hadn’t subscribed yet. You’re the kind of content creator that deserves the recognition. Thank you for your service! Subscribed :)
I feel so bad for her cuz whenever she goes on TH-cam her recommended is probably full of "19 EPIC GRILLED CHEESE HACK THAT OFFERS YOU A FORTUNE"
We can hope she watches the videos while signed out of her account. 😂
And with incognito mode on
@@fardifaalam605 with ad blocker
@@fardifaalam605 yep lol
this video also follows that formula 😂
Ann: 'this is how clickbait works regarding to a psychologist'
Me: looks at title
Also me: 'I see what you did there, clever.'
Hahah I came to write the same.. 😅
Yep, I see what you did Ann.
I didn’t even realize until the comments 🤣
This was such a great insightful video!
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You have a check next your name
You must be famous
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Your profile reminding me anime noragami
@@thespirittree7016 Check the sub count.
The second I feel like I’ve clicked on a “farm” I get off. I’ve watched you Ann enough to kinda figure out the pattern. I stick to the creators I like and are really helpful. Thanks for all your help
Ann Reardon went from making giant candy bars to being the scariest and most badass woman on youtube 😂
Exactly
She is truly amazing
@@thespirittree7016 i second that
That went from 1,000 to 1,000
They are both such good jobs 👏
Y E S
spread the word, we need to get ann a diamond play button
yesssssssss
is the Annabeth Chase on your profile pic?
@@aarohimukhopadhyay1309 its percy on your profile pic!!!!
@@youcanstayyeah708 Yup!!!!!
How did you know!!?!?!?!!
@@aarohimukhopadhyay1309 i read Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, and Trials of Apollo
“Who of us haven’t had a broken phone... in our household” Ann shading Dave and her kids.
Didn't even realise
Let's all boost Ann
"They can go in the dishwasher, by the way..." I NEEDED THIS!
My question is how is this not fraud? They, with TH-cam as accessories under the law, are generating a cash flow via ads etc through a wrongful and obvious deception. Is that not the definition of fraud and hence illegal. People like this is the reason REAL content creators have to beg for donations on patreon.
LOLs she did the clickbate title thing.
It is fraud. But it's making the platform tons of money so they don't care. Corporate America at its best.
This reminds me of all those strange ads I use to see through yahoo. The ones about losing belly fat, or those weird pictures of some gross looking seed or fruit that burns fat. Not sure if any one ever clicked on those images, but they're always there.
TH-cam cheaters just use images of cake instead of an often poor drawing of some woman squishing her belly fat.
Maybe these content farms are giving youtube extra money as a kickback or something. There's got to be a reason they are allowing it for them and nobody else. Kick back sounds about right to me.
Hmm... this make me wondering is this another way of how youtube generating an "income" to their company? By having "a bunch or group" of people to be allowed to do this "content farming", using clickbait and break most of youtube rules and regulations but yet all of this channel are still works! Something "fishy" in a muds. Thanks to Ann to bravely reveal this. But Ann, please do watch your back out. If this really was done by "internal youtube team" which is part of another way for them to generate an income, you might be in a big trouble sooner or later. 😔
“Because money’s involved” 🤣❤️
Well she's not wrong.
Oh dang, crazy seeing you here!
oh hello
I didn’t know that a famous TH-camr that I never knew of was here.... well hi Watts.
I would like to know does TH-cam forgive channels where their viewers click on ads or purchase through youtube ads?
Assuming youtube makes more money when people engage with the ads.
This channel is wild, it’s part debunking videos and part investigatory journalism. Pretty sweet.
She makes nice cakes too
Totally agree
don't forget the cooking! Best part!
I know one thing for sure: If there *is* a video showing the knife cutting into that heart cake, it's gonna have two entirely different cakes on the thumbnail.
She protecc,
She attacc
But most of all,
She call out fake farms on their facts
Love you Ann ❤️
but seriously why is this allowed? those farms i mean...it's so annoying
Money
All those views add up to make some serious ad money for TH-cam. TH-cam isn’t going to give that up.
Kids. Most of their viewers are kids. It's kid friendly (well, most of it ANYWAY *cough* bleached strawberries *cough* skittles vodka *cough* ) and colorful.
Karen Ramnath TH-cam isn’t going to give it up, is because they make money from them too. Content farms are the reason that TH-cam has the amount of money that it does. Soo, they let it slide.
Dosh.
i could tell the second that i saw those “chefs” that they were just stock photos.
They didn't even pay for the photos, just cropped out the watermark too
Hilda has always been so intuitive
@@CriAleMar The Shutterstock one seems to be one they paid for. Or they photoshopped it...which is possible, since they added the EU flag to his collar.
hi, hilda
Same
TH-cam only applies the "rules" to channels that don't make money.
You know what they say: a well-formatted lie is more believable than a truth that's stranger than fiction.
I've never heard that one but I will remember it.
@@HowToCookThat don't forget
in words of aelin ashrevyer galathynius, "lie with truths" she a character from throne of glass series
@@HowToCookThat same
@@HowToCookThat You're an inspiration
Just in case no one mentioned this, do NOT wear wet socks to bed. Not unless you like athlete's foot. You can (and likely will) get some kind of infection on your foot if you do that. So... not only is the thumbnail fake, it's actually dangerous.
Candida albicans is gonna be thrilled
@Elisa Castro sadly enough, natural selection does not work effectively against humans. It's such a shame.
We had a guy in Basic Training that would spray his feet with bug spray and then wear socks to bed, giving himself trench foot. His feet would dry out, crack and bleed.
Uncle Chris um wow
Jeremy Noel um yes
youtube apply their rules whenever they want. For this kind of creators that create clickbait, repetitive and some times dangerous content, they close their eyes because their is a lot of money but for real creators that spends hours creating one video, nooooo these are youtube rules!! and there is no way to stop this since youtube itself allows it!
The Cr1tikal/Markiplier situation really illustrates this perfectly
If they changed the rule for repetitious content, I’d hope they’d make some kind of exception for individual content creators uploading full vods on vod channels and edits on their other channel because that’s very common in the gaming community
The chocalate with a knife is a viral video that is commonly used in satisfying videos complation since 2016/2017 so if they started 11 months ago it can't be theirs
ooohhh.
I know I've already seen this video somewhere! Thanks!
5:45 Ann Reardon could make an album exposing all the fake channels and I'd still listen to it
Same!
“But remember they also do have a policy against dangerous content but they don’t think that people putting strawberries in bleach to make them white or pouring hot caramel onto beaters to flick them around is dangerous, so there may be a reason why this isn’t because money is involved. I don’t know.” 😳
th-cam.com/video/82UqF5R_njo/w-d-xo.html
Those are okay, but Thunderfoot got busted again. How dare a physicist debunk stuff.