CMV: YouTube should require creators to put the most interesting part of a video at the start.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but while scrolling through my YouTube recommendations I realised that this is the kind of system that is urgently needed. <br><br>First, a video should be considered a piece of content that has a length of 10 minutes or longer. By YouTube standards, most people would call a video of that length “a long video” or “a lengthy video”, but I digress.<br><br>The algorithm and creators have an endless loop of one influencing the other, with creators creating content designed for the algorithm and the algorithm only, and while the algorithm was originally designed to help creators and viewers alike, its not like either of these things are the case anymore. <br><br>Take Top 10 lists for an example. Each point in the video is usually short and to the point, with some creator commentary sprinkled throughout. If somebody was to write a Top 10 list as an article, they would usually put the most interesting points in the top few spots, with the last few being the most boring. This is what YouTube creators should do, as the point of a Top 10 list is to tell the viewers what somebody thinks are the top 10 things in the subject in question. <br><br>This is not currently the case. Creators, in an effort to get more views, will put the most interesting points at the back of the video. This is why many top 10 lists have point #10 as the most interesting part of the video, because they want viewers to watch the whole video and get more ad revenue, as well as hopes of getting the viewer to click on the next video and start the cycle over. <br><br>Another example is “What Happens if [Insert thing here]” videos. These videos usually consist of a channel owner with a handful of channel assets talking about what would happen if some impossible scenario were to occur, such as Zealandia sinking into the ocean or the world running out of clean water, or even something as ridiculous as the Earth suddenly and spontaneously turning into a giant eggplant. <br><br>These videos usually start with a quick introduction, followed by a quick history of the subject. Then, about a quarter of the way into the video, is where the creator actually starts talking about what would happen if the impossible scenario occurs. This is where all of the clickbait happens, and is why most people click on these videos, because they want to know what would happen to the inhabitants of Zealandia if it were to sink into the ocean.<br><br>These are just two examples, but the point is that creators are lying about what their video is about. They aren’t interested in telling viewers what they say they are. They are just trying to get more views and more ad revenue, and most of the time they are doing this at the expense of the viewer, who is unknowingly giving them more ad revenue for a video that they have little to no interest in.<br><br>This is why YouTube should require creators to put the most interesting part of a video at the start. If they are lying to viewers while also trying to make more money off of them, why should they be rewarded for their deception by getting more views and ad revenue. This system would also allow creators who write titles that reflect what their video is actually about to get more views, as they will be in line with YouTubes values, while also telling viewers what their video is actually about.<br><br>TL;DR: YouTube should require creators to put the most interesting part of a video at the start to stop the algorithm/creator endless loop cycle and to make creators tell viewers what their video is actually about, and to stop creators from lying to viewers to get more ad revenue. <br><br>EDIT: <br><br>To those who are replying that I am saying that creators should put their most interesting content at the start, that is not what I am saying, and you know it. I am saying that creators should put the most interesting content *from the description* at the start, not some completely different and more interesting topic while ignoring the actual topic of the video. <br><br>I can also see that a lot of people are misunderstood what I have written. <br><br>The most interesting part of the video from the *description* should be at the beginning of the video, not the most interesting content that the creator could come up with. <br><br>If you watch a video about what would happen if the Earth suddenly turned into an eggplant, the creator should say what they think would happen if that were to happen, rather than going off on some tangent that has nothing to do with what they say the video is about. <br><br>If that makes sense. <br><br>EDIT 2:<br><br>I feel like I need to say this again. By most interesting part of a video, I mean the most interesting thing from *the video description*. By that logic, creators should put the most interesting topic from the subject they are talking about at the start of the video, rather than saving it for the end. <br><br>For example, if a video is about what would happen if the Earth suddenly turned into an eggplant, and the creator spends the first 8 minutes of a 10 minute video talking about the history of eggplants and the best way to cook them, then that is not the most interesting topic from the subject matter. <br><br>What you described is exactly what I am saying should happen. Creators have to put what they say the most interesting part of a subject is at the beginning of a video. They will no longer be able to spend the first 8 minutes of a 10 minute video talking about the history of eggplants, and then have only 2 minutes left to talk about what they think would happen if the Earth suddenly turned into an eggplant, because they have to talk about the history of eggplants before they can talk about what the Earth turning into an eggplant would be like. <br><br>Under YouTube’s new standards, they would have to talk about what the Earth turning into an eggplant would be like first, and then they can talk about the history of eggplants, but only if it is relevant to what the Earth turning into an eggplant would be like.