Just like with Youtubers, people will stop these practices when people stop clicking on them.

It’s very easy for us to tell people to just not do that stuff, but I can tell you from my podcast production days that these annoying trends are often the difference between a 20% rise and a 20% drop in audience. No different than a clever book title turning heads.

To be clear, I find most of these trends incredibly obnoxious and I hated indulging them.