Click ZineIssue 01

After the policy: a year of YouTube's misleading-thumbnail crackdown

A year into YouTube's automated misleading-metadata enforcement, a dozen mid-tier creators describe what actually changed — and why the honest thumbnail turned out to suppress churn, not growth.

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