Do You Think these Simplified Titles are Better?

[oblique echo]

I've been working on the packaging of my videos and the titles seem to be the thing I'm struggling with the most. I was advised to simplify my titles so this id what I came up with, what do u guys think?

[smoky palm]

Packaging eh?

I feel like the text is a little hard to read in the thumbnails

The titles are okay but I actually kinda liked the old ones

[oblique echo]

yeah I'll try to work with contrasting colours for the thumbnail texts

[smoky palm]

Honestly maybe the font too

[oblique echo]

and titles I liked the old ones but sondre suggested that I should simplify it in a manner that attracts the common person without being too complicated

[oblique echo]

I was looking for some better pixel fonts, do u know of any?

[smoky palm]

Not sure sorry

I'm sure dafont has a good few for you

[autumn cobalt]

Simple is usually best

Also Google fonts are underrated

[forest spindle]

I agree with the text in the title, sometimes it's readable sometimes it takes a second glance. I personally like the length of the titles, but as long as it doesn't get cut off on the phone I'd think its fine. You want potential audiences to be able to read all of your title

[autumn cobalt]

Legit look at the fonts that aren't int English... They usually still have English characters, but like all the Japanese fonts I looked at were so cool

And that's all on googles font database or free to use fonts

[smoky palm]

You can focus on having the first 50 characters be "for the broad people" but then keyword stuff beyond that mark like normal

[oblique echo]

gotcha

[oblique echo]

yep my previous titles were like "Everything you need to know about fnaf into the pit(full story, hidden secrets and references) etc"

[autumn cobalt]

Like the font I used for my channel banner is specifically a Japanese Google font

[oblique echo]

uhm that was my approach but I don't wanna be stuck in the box of the guy who just shows me all the endings and i feel like i am that for now

people skip to the parts where there's the endings shown

[forest spindle]

I use new courier, because of the old timey feel if I wanted more slick modern look, bahnshift (which I like to make the letters longer of) or helvetica give a very clean look

[oblique echo]

I'm trying to change that to being the guy who shows u interesting horror games

[autumn cobalt]

I mean doesn't "The Complete Guide to FNAF into the pit" cover all that but more concisely?

[smoky palm]

Exactly

[oblique echo]

yes but the issue becomes that this is more like for people who are already fnaf fans?

and i have viewers who never cared for fnaf

I'm trying to make it so that I can make them care for a horror game they didn't care for before

[autumn cobalt]

I mean, if they're interested they'll click, if not they won't simple as

[oblique echo]

i took a bunch of influence from pyrocynical and some other channels

pyro uses these kinds of titles and it's kinda smart

because "interest" comes in like two ways.
Either I can be the fnaf guy and only fnaf fans would check me out (channels like Dawko, Ryetoast, Id's fantasy, Fuhnaff)
or I can be the guy who plays anything horror and make people care about it (Markiplier, Game theory, etc)

and I don't wanna be the first group of people, I want to be more flexible

and I am trying to thus make people interested in a random game they didn't care about

and that seems to be pretty tough

[smoky palm]

He does have his name behind him though

A lot of big youtubers can get away with bad titles

Smaller can't

[oblique echo]

ofcourse but there are people who make it because they make people care about a game

like the guy who got famous playing That's Not My Neighbour