ELI40 “YouTuber thumbnail vibes?”

YouTube's algorithm has created over the last ~5 years an entire cottage industry of click-maximizing content creators who take any interesting scientific discovery or concept, turn it into the maximally hypey claim they can, and make that the title of their videos with a "shocked-face" thumbnail.

E.g. imagine an arxiv paper from French engineer sebastiennight:

     Using quantum chips to mitigate halting issues on LLM loops

     Thumbnail: (SHOCKED FACE of Youtuber clasping their head next to a Terminator robot being crushed by a flaming Willow chip)
     Title: French Genius SHOCKS the AI industry with Google chip hack!

I think he means just try shit until something works better.