[Evan] Hello there everybody welcome to my new flat
[Dodie:] It's- ah, it's... no
[Evan:] It's not my new flat
You've been tricked by the trickedy trickster
Look at that, you just got
you got
Clickbaited
Hi there everyone welcome to my new flat
It's not actually my new flat
This is Dodie's living room
And this is Dodie
[Dodie:] Hello!
[Evan:] In her living room
My flat's not ready yet, for you guys to see
I'm kinda still working on it
So you'll see that a bit later
But
Because I was at Dodie's house
And you guys seemed to really love last week's video
I felt like
Why don't we just have a light sit and chat
[Dodie:] You know who didn't like your last video, Evan?
[Evan:] About clickbait
[Dodie:] I didn't like your last video Evan
[Evan:] Did you hit the dislike button?
[Dodie:] No I didn't
I wouldn't do that
[Evan:] So in honesty I was at Summer in The City
When I was figuring out what the title would be
And I thought it would be really funny
as clickbaity AF as it was
Cause I thought, it would be, a joke
The word "THE TRUTH" was in the title
Like that-
[Dodie:] Yeah, but that's because most people nowadays
have to put "not clickbait"
in brackets because so many people clickbait
That's, what?!
[Evan:] Literally, I originally just had it as
Why I l-
The reason I left Dovan flat
Which was like, an actual answer, that was in the video
That was a joke, Yes
Because I thought that everyone at this point in time
would already have known since we've said many times
literally you just wanted to live somewhere else
That was it
I guess it's just not an interesting answer
people want more controversy
[Dodie:] Yeah of course
{Evan:] So I saw that they were like "ooh hot goss"
[Dodie:] And the thumbnail was like
[Evan:] So I was yes, tricking them to be like, hey
stop with your conspiracy theories
Here's a joke, the flat's a mess
lol
But I thought that, like when I'd first made it
I made the title even more clickbaity
because I thought it'd obviously be clickbait
like everyone'd see that and go
"Oh, that Evan"
he- "THE TRUTH" like come on
The whole thing-
Who clicked that and honestly thought it was going to be real (I can't believe it was a Q&A)
And the question was the last one as well
It was like ugh (gotta get that watch time)
My mate Felix he knows what's up y'know
The thing was I made the title
Super clickbaity, ironically
I thought it was funny
Half the people the in comments did actually think it was funny
and they were like "lol"
You have to pick one of the Qs
To A for the title
I do that for every Q&A
Which is every 5 weeks
It's like not different on my channel
Here's the thing, I feel like if you do clickbait
again and again and again and again
oh yeah you'd definitely lose faith in an audience
Yeah
Oh yeah I would lose faith
I would lose faith in creators that do it
your audience goes "well, the boy who cried wolf"
"You're definitely not pregnant" (What if I am)
"You're not shaving your head"
"you're not dyeing your hair" (What if I am)
Hey I did, I did dye my hair
But actually I didn't title that, that video
I made a video last month for my Q&A which was
"Am I religious?"
Now that was just one question and yes I answered the question
And I didn't get any dislikes for it
But why didn't you make a whole video about it
What an interesting video that would be (because it was a Q&A)
I know but why would you title a video something so interesting
And then just not do it at all
I did do it, I answered it for a good minute in the video
Did you?
Yes, I was actually very honest with my answer about "am I religious"
People respected my opinion quite a lot
I was very thankful
Okay fine but if you-
Now with this one i think the only thing I did wrong was
because I thought it'd be funny to make an ironically
super clickbaity title
People actually believed it
Half the people that believed it were actually quite upset
Okay here is "The truth"
"the reason why I left Dovan flat"
I can't believe you're gonna let this out
sorry
I need tissues
I like change
and I like moving around
and I like cash
I just, I wanted to try things
My life is built up in like stages
and like different sections and events
It was a year at Dovan flat
and just needed a little chapter in my life
I think that's healthy
and my head wasn't very happy in that place
and so I tried moving around
see if it changed, dunno, we'll find out
but me and Evan are still very very good friends
even though he's a clickbaity piece of-
I have a counterpoint here
for all of this conversation
because I have been playing on with the narrative here
that clickbait is a terrible thing
but I honestly don't believe that it is 100%
and someone that does it well, I believe
is Casey Neistat
Well I mean he does daily vlogs, every video
is some part of his life
and sometimes, the title and thumbnail
is literally one second of this video
"Not another day like this"
"Got in a car accident"
look someone got in a car accident
that was the thumbnail like he literally will be like
but the thing is he's making videos
yeah but he makes really good stuff
the content is always the same
it's always good
and so getting more people to watch a video
that you are proud of
I don't have an issue with that.
And that's why when people were-
I got some negative comments saying things like,
"Evan, I will never watch you again because of this clickbaity title
I like your videos."
Which to me is counter-productive, counter-intuitive because
you like what I make,
You clicked the video thinking you were going to watch something else, yes-
But you still enjoyed the video,
and because of the title you won't. That doesn't make sense.
It's like, "I love what he makes-" Like for instance,
Philip DeFranco, someone I like very much, all of his titles are very like
clickbaity.
But, the content that he makes is always good.
And I always watch it.
So, maybe let's say I'm thinking of skipping one of the videos,
and then he brings me back with clickbaity thing.
I'm still gonna watch it because it's the good content that I've come to expect.
So- if people watch my videos,
And more people click it because it's an interesting title,
and I still deliver the same quality,
"Evan Content" with them #puns...
I mean, l- I don't find that as big a problem.
I think there's definitely a sliding scale from, like,
Dodie's opinion on clickbait to Casey Neistat's.
And I consider myself somewhere in the middle.
I don't find it a deadly sin where if I do it once, every viewer should be like
ripping up Evan merch and going,
*sob* "It was such a beautiful chance and he lost it!"
Like,
"I didn't want you to throw away your shot." You know
I don't know, you're right. Maybe I'm too much of the "other scale," I don't-
I think it's good to be moralled on Youtube...
and that's why I like you so much.
Cause I'm very moralled with alot of things
I'll never take someone's tags on youtube
I've known people that have done that with me. I find that
cringy and less of a friend
thing and more of a competitor, I treat youtube as
a fun place that is still for me
A thing I like to do that's a hobby
So yeah, If I can get more people to watch my video
That's great, but i'm not going to
like, for instance I will
never do "Am I pregnant?" or something, like
that's the far end of the
spectrum
I think the furthest I'll ever go is what I did last week
which like I said
I treated it as an ironic joke
Obviously, a lot of my audience didn't see that. Sorry
this feels like a... like a rehab
Like an intervention like, Evan you need to stop
and iI'm like NO. There's boobs in the thumbnail.
*laughter*
Do you ever a click on a video that looks really interesting
and like ''oh, I wonder what's happening''
and then as soon as you click on it and it goes
''welcome back to the Q+A'' you're just like "uugh"
and then like you just click off immediately, that's what I do.
I don't, if it's someone, like I said, if it's someone that I like watching,
I am going to enjoy the video regardless of what the title is, however,
I'm really excited to get to that part of the video.
It's just like, if you are clickbaiting a title that it's good enough for the video, why not make a video about that?
Because it's a Q&A, it's a different style of content.
[Dodie]: If your content is good enough so that people would remember and comeback and watch
even if the title is just like "Q&A" I think that's far more
Moral
[Evan]: Respectful? Is that the word you are looking for?
So you find, like obviously, you are gonna have more respect for a creator
that doesn't try any tactics to do well but does well
[Dodie]: How about you make good stuff?
[Evan]: I really like what I do. [Dodie]: yeah, you make great stuff.
[Evan]: Thank you. [Dodie]: And I come back, and I would, it doesn't matter what the title is.
[Evan]: Yeah, personally, I like what I do and therefore I don't think it matters as much but
I think there's a happy medium somewhere in between, what is your opinion people on the comments?
If I could go back in time for a week I would have actually, after the joke answer,
answered the question correctly,
[Dodie]: That would have been much better.
[Evan]: I just thought, at this point everyone would have expected the joke answer because
it's very obvious we didn't- we moved out of the house because we wanted to move out of the house
It's just for me though, as well, as a conspiracy theorist myself... I don't believe it.
What is going down on that mind of hers?
[Dodie changing her voice]: "Yeah, I think that Dodie is trying to separate their brand because Evan
is just trying to use her"
[Evan changing his voice]: "Evan's brand is just problematic so Dodie has to kind of separete
so that she can become a little innocent love child she is"
Can we like "Dab for Dodie"?
Good. I'm glad.
We also would like to clear that, just clear that drama, I mean, have I- Have we ever dated?
[Dodie]: No. [Evan]: We never dated? Are you sure?
Okay. Because I'm pretty sure we never dated.
[Dodie]: What, I don't lie, obviously I do not lie to my audience.
Never dated, never kissed,
[Evan]: We never kissed, we never dated, I never wanted to date Dodie.
I literally, I just, I think it's because I am the sexuality that I am, I'm a demisexual,
and find it very difficult to find someone that I'm actually interested in, and when I became friends with you,
I very much wanted to stay that way, and you also did, so that was lovely.
And yet, a lot of people, even friends were like, "I know you are actually dating"
We are not, we are literally not.
[Dodie]: So many people, so many friends, were like,
"Are you and Evan...?" and I'm like no... I guess people are just so used to
there being a flirty... [Evan]: I'm a guy so... if I'm not gay I gotta be tapping that.
[Dodie]: Exactly! Right? It's like if we were both girls [shrugs] would this be a thing?
[Evan]: Everyone is so heteronormative, why would I need to date someone,
I can laugh at my own jokes.
[Dodie]: Nooo... [laughs]
Anything else you wanna talk about?
[Evan] Clickbait
[Baby voice]Cli-Clickbait
[Dodie Baby Voice] Clickbait
[Evan] We talk about clickbait
[Normal Voice] I think as long as you love what you make
[Dodie] -And you make it good
[Evan] You should be happy with whatever you're doing on YouTube really (Mhm)
So. And I hope that you love what I make enough to stay subscribed to me (I love what you make!)
Hit that like button, Give me that thumbs up.
But anyway, if you haven't subscribed to me you could, you could come back. If you're coming back for this. {laughs}
But anyway thanks for watching! Also you can check out Dodie's channel. What do you do over there?
[Dodie] Uh...Sing songs
[Evan] She sings songs and stuff so if you like songs singers go check out her channel. {Laughs}
[Dodie] I also chat sh**, but yeah.
[Evan] Yooo! I'll see you guys later, thanks for watching. Bye!
Bloopers:
[Dodie] Back. Ok
[Both] {laugh}
[Evan] Hey there everyone so today I'm in my good friend, Dodie's room.
Her living room
Her living room. He- I'm sorry I broke.
We look like we're about to announce our pregnancy or something
Guys, we've, we've been uh- keeping this a secret for so long.
[Dodie] No clickbait.
[Evan] Here comes the title. (Dodie-No clickbait)
Is she pregnant?
[Dodie] No!
For flip's sake..
[Evan] For flip's side