Am I the only one who thinks it's kinda pathetic when YouTube videos ask viewers to like and subscribe? To me it feels like say telling a joke and then asking your audience to please applaud and laugh. If your joke is genuinely funny, people will applaud and laugh without prompting, and similarly if your video/channel is really that good then people will click like or subscribe without needing to be prompted. Honestly. Although I've never subscribed to a channel, because if I like a channel enough I'll regularly check up on it myself. Imagine if someone posted a status or thought on Facebook and asked people to click Like and follow them.

And really, unless I really genuinely like a video, the more a video asks me to click like on it the more I really don't want to. Are people that desperate to seek approval from strangers on the internet?

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