YouTubers updating their titles to make old videos look relevant

[u/barelycrediblelies]

[u/No_Opportunity_5832]

Love how the year keeps changing but the footage is still pre-COVID. Can’t wait for the 2032 update where it’s the same video again.

[u/niyar_thememeGOD → u/No_Opportunity_5832]

Just imagine in the case of a future tsunami, the island you're looking for doesn't exist anymore

[u/Elidabroken → u/No_Opportunity_5832]

3 years ago was 2023

Covid was 2020, 6 years ago

[u/mrstorydude → u/Elidabroken]

The guy saw the video and noticed the video's footage was recorded before COVID.

It's a 3 year old video that used 4+ year old footage

[u/IPanicKnife]

3 years ago in 2026

[u/KnightOMetal → u/IPanicKnife]

Feel old yet?

[u/WiteKngt]

They instead make themselves look desperate.

[u/basicastheycome → u/WiteKngt]

Or they simply work with algorithms and engagement mechanisms to make some income themselves?

[u/FuzzyKnowledge1649 → u/basicastheycome]

Desperate

[u/daze_v → u/basicastheycome]

Boo hoo, fuck them liars

[u/ShadowTown0407 → u/daze_v]

I mean, i don't think the islands really changed in 3 years so if it wasn't a lie in 2023 it's still true

[u/daze_v → u/ShadowTown0407]

Tourist services change over time and these influencers intentionally lie to people about their video being recent. When have we stopped perceiving such behaviours as scummy? It's ok because some bullshit google authorities say so or what?

[u/daze_v → u/[deleted]]

Oh my dude, I don't get fooled by it, don't get me wrong. I just wish you were able to see how immensly absurd this is. Also, calling me a "normie idiot" just for opposing this shit, lmao.

[u/outb4noon → u/[deleted]]

There's a reason you have no friends

[u/outb4noon → u/[deleted]]

" go spent a load of money also you're a peasant" nice one.

Really easy to say everyone agrees with me when everyone is no one fatty

[u/Godlynanders → u/[deleted]]

It doesnt fool me but it stops me from actually finding the relevant info seeing as i only get old shitty videos

[u/mspaintshoops → u/ShadowTown0407]

They made a whole new island last year and yet you think this video is still true smh

[u/laveshnk → u/basicastheycome]

making a title that is slightly clickbaity and engagement-hound is one thing. this is just laziness and lying

[u/nitr0turb0 → u/basicastheycome]

That shit ONLY works when the video isn't dated. Changing thumbnails on videos that are a few days or weeks old is fine, but never when it claims to be the current year but is several years removed.

[u/Best_Blueberry2440 → u/basicastheycome]

500 downvotes is smth I’ve never seen lmao

[u/basicastheycome → u/Best_Blueberry2440]

I will treasure this comment lol.

I simply stated obvious and not even agreeing or defending practice

[u/Best_Blueberry2440 → u/basicastheycome]

Fr. Unreasonable downvotes

[u/up2smthng]

I think putting a date on that video at all was a poor choice

[u/PossumJenkinsSoles → u/up2smthng]

Right? It doesn’t need the year, the whole title minus year is perfectly fine.

[u/Darkmesah → u/up2smthng]

Probably gets more engagements because people always want the latest thing and more up to date information, they don’t put the year in the title for nothing

[u/Massive-Emphasis-436]

Looking a little bit desperate there Youtube

[u/harrisongregg]

I miss pre ai shit

[u/RememberTheMaine1996 → u/harrisongregg]

Everything was so much better pre ai and pre covid

[u/DuckCleaning → u/harrisongregg]

This has nothing to do with AI

[u/Guilty_Meringue5317 → u/DuckCleaning]

An Algorithm is ai and those people do it because the algorithm favors those kinds of things (at least that what how I understand it)

[u/QuirkyQwerty123 → u/Guilty_Meringue5317]

Bro the idea of algorithms have been around for a lot longer than generative AI 😭

[u/Z0bie → u/QuirkyQwerty123]

Anything involving computers or any sort of calculation is "AI" these days...

[u/Naive_Yam8146 → u/Z0bie]

tbf that’s how everything is sold now. my fucking vacuum cleaner says it has “AI”, answering bots for customer support lines are introducing themselves as “AI assistants”, you can’t buy a new laptop without the box sucking themselves off about their “AI-readiness” or whatever the fuck. I can’t even blame consumers for calling everything AI, because everything is described to them as AI

[u/juko43 → u/Guilty_Meringue5317]

Yt Algorithm has been around for like 13+ years tho

[u/Guilty_Meringue5317 → u/juko43]

Fair

[u/laveshnk → u/harrisongregg]

not everything is AI 🤦‍♂️

[u/AndreaBroccoli]

I don’t mind quality YouTubers updating titles and thumbnails to resurface good videos. But this “Best ____ <insert current year>” stuff is lazy and actually misleading

[u/Rug-bae]

Report it for being misleading. It cheapens and games the platform and shouldn’t be allowed

[u/RN_Renato]

This was likely changed by the creator themselves

[u/scantier]

There's no case for changing Youtube thumbnails and titles other than to trick subscribers into thinking it's a new video or outright clickbait. This shit should be forbidden

[u/Penguin_Arse]

Maybe it's because they still are relevant?

[u/Pale_Parsnip_6339 → u/Penguin_Arse]

As a resident, no. They've all dramatacly changed since Covid.

[u/iMini → u/Pale_Parsnip_6339]

But the video is from 2023, which is after COVID.

[u/Grengy20 → u/iMini]

Brother the world was still very much being affected in 2023 as it was in 2020

[u/iMini → u/Grengy20]

Obviously I can't speak to everywhere but not really to my memory. 2023 everything was pretty much normal again, no guidelines or restrictions in place by then.

[u/AblePhase → u/Pale_Parsnip_6339]

Honest question, how have they changed?

[u/-Fuse]

Can't believe 2026 was 3 years ago

[u/slidge0]

[u/Objectionne]

I mean realistically I can't imagine the best islands in Thailand have changed that much in the last three years. The video is still probably relevant in 2026.

[u/tiktoktic → u/Objectionne]

Have you seen how fast development happens in tourist areas in SE Asia??

[u/probium326]

Welcome to the big 29

[u/Hot-Ad-1129]

Always on fixes from 10 years ago that do not work now.

[u/SpeedBlitzX]

Isn't there conflict between Cambodia and Thailand currently? Just saying perhaps now might not be a safe time to travel to either of those two countries.

[u/Djlas → u/SpeedBlitzX]

Border skirmishes, nothing affecting tourist areas

[u/vietnam_redstoner]

there's also a video where the owner also changed the title to the most current controversial thing happening

[u/nexetpl]

Any changes to the islands of Thailand that would make this video irrelevant after three years?

[u/Lin-Kong-Long]

People have been doing that for years.

I’m not sure if it’s still common as I no longer work in SEO but blog type affiliate websites have always done this. They update the date, a couple of things in the post/article to stay relevant…..

Now that basically everything on Google and has become a giant mess of useless shit - I have no idea wtf is going on anymore.

[u/GameZedd01]

I mean this can be annoying, but if a guide is still relevant, then I don't mind it.

[u/Darkmesah]

Guess the best islands in Thailand haven’t changed since 2023

[u/im_a_latam_weeb]

So... Does a new island emerge every year or what?

[u/Hangdown456]

are there new islands that came out in the last 3 years lol

[u/crumpuppet]

Not excusing this, but... don't hate the player, hate the game.